My piece on Rocky Mountain National Park, park No. 58 out of No. 59, will be shorter than my usual dispatches as we are packing for our rafting trip with Claire and Kyle down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. By the time you read this is post, we will have already been on the river …
So often people ask us what is our favorite national park. Fred has a good answer to that question, “The next one,” for he really does relish in the anticipation of what he’s going to see and photograph in the next park we’re visiting. My answer has fluctuated over these past couple of years, as …
It’s time to say ‘so long’ to Santa Fe. We have been here for two weeks now, and since we woke up to this view out our front windshield this morning, we know it’s time to be movin’ on…. This is actually our second visit to this wonderful little artsy town in northern New Mexico. …
The name of this national park suggests a nautical theme, but Capitol Reef is far from the sea. And while it was initially far from our minds — honestly, we had never even heard of it before we set out on our adventure to visit all 59 of the national parks — it won’t be …
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 …
September 1-8 — We had not expected to come here at this time, but given the hazardous air quality that continued to permeate northern Montana skies, we decided to skip visiting Glacier National Park for now, and opted, instead, to come down to Wyoming to visit Grand Teton National Park. Grand Teton NP is just …
October 27 – 31 — Just 75 miles west of Washington D.C., in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, lies Shenandoah National Park. This park was established in the 1920s and ’30s as a response to the development of large national parks in the West. With automobiles making getaways from big cities possible (‘within a day’s drive …
This has been the fall to beat all falls! From the first color twinges we saw in New Hampshire when we hiked Mt. Washington back on September 6th, and all throughout Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland and West Virginia… on through yesterday here in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, we have really enjoyed the …
October 25 & 26 — As we make our way to Shenandoah National Park, a couple other National Park Units are nearby – Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and Antietam National Battlefield. A lot of history happened in these two locations that are only about 20 miles apart, and we couldn’t help but draw a significant …
