Description of sights and hikes in Death Valley National Park and Valley of Fire State Park

Description of visit to Joshua Tree National Park

Description of trip to Channel Islands National Park.

Trip to see Southern California National Parks, including Channel Islands, Joshua Tree and Death Valley.

Summary of our visit to Yosemite National Park

Trip to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

Pinnacles National Park is a rugged wilderness environment with just over 30 miles of hiking trails. There is no road that crosses the...

Overview of our visit to Central California national parks

After a hiatus on trips for about nine months due to family issues, we spent two days in late September exploring Shenandoah National...

Highlights of visit to White Sands National Park

Visit to Carlsbad Caverns National Park

The Guadalupe Mountains National Park is about one-tenth of the size of Big Bend, but still has some distinctive areas. Our first stop...

Big Bend is a very large national park; it is ranked seventh in size for national parks in the continental United States and is larger...

In early December, we flew to San Antonio, then traveled to Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks in Texas, and Carlsbad...

Mammoth Cave National Park is most well known for containing the world's longest cave system, with more than 400 miles of interconnected...

Our trip to the Virgin Islands National Park could be considered a fortuitous adventure. We were enjoying a couples' weekend with our...

Description of our trip to Acadia National Park

Hot Springs National Park is the oldest park maintained by the National Park Service and the second smallest park in the system (with...

Our first stop on this trip was St. Louis, Missouri, to visit the Gateway Arch National Park. At just over 90 acres in area, this is the...

Our most recent trip took us to St. Louis to Gateway Arch National Park in Missouri and Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. We took...