Visiting national park numbers 54 and 55 would be the most adventurous excursion that we had undertaken since we left on this trip over two years ago. Granted, our backcountry trip into Denali last year was certainly Out There, as we camped for four days near a glacier about 20 miles into the park. But …
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This is a map we have hanging up inside Charley, our RV. It shows all of the national park units, and the pink highlights show which ones we’ve been to. Can you tell what area of the country we haven’t visited yet? Well that’s about to change as we make our way back to the …
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 …
The last of the six national parks we visited on this trip, Denali National Park and Preserve was another one of the big, mysterious, wild places that got protected by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) when President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that established over 100 million acres of new national parks, preserves, …
This visit to Denali National Park and Preserve was like no other trip to a national park that we have made thus far. Instead of driving into the park, or taking a boat, or even landing on water or a beach near a lodge where we would stay, on this trip we flew about 15 …
For most who come to Brooks Camp in Katmai NP in Alaska, it is about the bears. More specifically, the brown bears that congregate at Brooks Falls each July to await the sockeye salmon that make their way up the river and then must make a leap that Dwight Stone would be proud of to …
As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s really about the bears here in Katmai National Park and Preserve these days. What was originally set aside as a national monument to protect the centerpiece of the park, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and the volcanoes, glaciers and wilderness area surrounding this roadless backcountry, has …
The story of Katmai begins more than one hundred years ago when a volcanic eruption like few others in recorded history took place here on the Alaska Peninsula. While volcanic eruptions were and still are common in Alaska, this one was large enough to attract worldwide attention and a century later it still captures the …
