December 2021 To do the entire coast of Florida and hit up all the National Park sites in around 10 days is crazy but I thought it was doable and drivable so here we go! First stop was the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve, and unfortunately Fort Caroline was closed. But I did get to …
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Chickamauga & Chattanooga TN: Lookout Mountain Battlefield GA/TN and Russell Cave, AL
July 2021 To visit the Chickamauga and Chattanooga sites, the best place is to go to Lookout Mountain. The drive to Lookout Mountain Battlefield in Tennessee isn't easy. You go from city streets to tight neighborhoods all while winding up a tall road higher and higher, crossing from the Tennessee to the Georgia border in …
Great Smoky Mountains
July 2021 First stop on the way to the mountains is at the Gateway to the Big South Fork visitor center. It's where you can get info on Big South Fork, which is located in north central Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky in some of the most rugged terrain of the Cumberland Plateau. You can do …
Shiloh Natl. Military Park, Fort Donelson, and Mammoth Cave
July 2021 Shiloh National Military Park and Battlefield actually covers parts of Tennessee and Mississippi. It is the site of a battle in 1862, the largest in the Mississippi campaign in the Civil War with over 23,000 casualties. The park itself is over 5000 acres, not counting the Corinth section in Mississippi. That part is …
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Cane River Creole National Historical Park and Poverty Point World Heritage Site
July 2021 The road trip this year was a Southern history tour throughout the South up from Louisiana to Tennessee and back down to Texas. The first stop was Cane River Creole National Historical Park up in Natchitoches, Louisiana. https://flic.kr/p/2mMxVzJ It's a fairly long drive to get to the park itself, it isn't on very …
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Mount Rainier NP-Sunrise
July 03, 2021 Today is the day to make it to the Sunrise area of Mt. Rainier National Park. It's time to get even closer to this awesome volcano! It's the highest point you can reach in the park by car at 6,400 ft. Again, I arrive early to beat the traffic lines at the …
Mount Rainier NP-Longmire & Paradise
July 02, 2021 I've seen Mount Rainier on postcards and the internet, the famous mountain (and volcano!) creating a familiar and steady silhouette against the skyline of the city of Seattle. I was going to finally see it in person, right in front of me. But first, I have to get there. I stayed outside …
Olympic Hoh Rain Forest & Rialto Beach
July 01, 2021 Olympic National Park's eco system makes is so diverse. It is however, very large, and so I broke it up into 2 days since the Hoh Rain Forest park entrance is far from the one in Port Angeles. https://www.flickr.com/photos/189719256@N05/51365703854/in/dateposted/ So I stayed the night in Forks, and yes, it looks foggy and …
Olympic National Park & Forks, WA
June 30, 2021 Olympic National Park has 2 parts: the entrance at Port Angeles and the Hoh Rain Forest which is 2 hours away. Because of the drive, I did the Port Angeles side first. https://www.flickr.com/photos/189719256@N05/51318363203/in/photostream/ First stop is the visitor center, which has a nice little trail, the Peabody Trail, that will prepare you …
North Cascades National Park
June 30, 2021 Mountains, please. Plenty of them to find here, one of the least visited National Parks in the USA. https://www.flickr.com/photos/189719256@N05/51308535994/in/dateposted/ But I don't know why, because beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. It's like the Alps, some people describe it. Glaciers and peaks to view mixed in with the scent of the trees …
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