Yellowstone National Park is our nation’s oldest, and for many, grandest national park. Established on March 1, 1872, this land was “… set apart as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people….” And enjoy we did — for almost a month! We stayed in three different campgrounds at the …
You drive through the beautiful Idaho countryside near Ketchum, Idaho, and then you are upon it: exposed, black lava fields as far as the eye can see. But as you drive farther into the park, you begin to see how life is reestablishing itself in the form of first, small sprigs of grass and tiny …
While none of these places was on our list of national park units we had planned to see, our re-route to southern Idaho for several days to escape the wildfires north and west allowed us time in each of the following three places: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Hagerman, Idaho It’s one thing to see movies …
When we mapped out our route from the time we returned from Alaska in mid-August through the end of September, we figured we would be driving through Idaho for just about an hour up at the skinny part of the state as that would connect us from North Cascades NP in Washington to Glacier NP …
