Highlights of a visit to Biscayne National Park

The Everglades National Park is beautiful, vast, varied, and fascinating! In hindsight, we wish we had allocated more time to exploring...

For our fourth national park trip, we visited all three national parks in Florida. This trip could start from virtually any point in...

The New River Gorge is the newest to be added to the national parks and the New River is among the oldest rivers on the continent. The...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the country's most visited national park with over 12 million visits per year and,...

The Biltmore Estate was a great stop during this trip, being positioned nearly halfway between the Congaree National Park in Columbia,...

The Congaree National Park is about 30 minutes outside of Columbia, SC, and consists mainly of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest...

For our third national park trip, we drove from the Washington, DC, area to Columbia, SC, to visit the Congaree National Park, then...

While visiting family near Cleveland, Ohio, we took a day out to explore the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which stretches between...

We checked out the growing city of Bozeman for the final day of our trip, including going to the Museum of the Rockies, which mainly...

Our final day in Yellowstone covered the Mammoth Hot Springs area as well as the Lamar Valley and Tower-Roosevelt area. We were stopped...

Day 8 was focused on the Canyon Area of Yellowstone Park. As usual, we got an early start to try to see wildlife, and had a wolf cross...

We knew it would take several days to explore Yellowstone, so we planned three days, each focused on a different area of the park. Our...

We started the day in the Grand Teton National Park with a hike at Jenny Lake from the visitor center to Hidden Falls. Much of the trail...

Day 5 of the trip was mainly a travel day, covering the approximately five-hour drive from Casper to Jackson. The initial part of the...

Day 4 of the trip provided a respite from all the driving and an opportunity to see Casper, Wyoming. We visited the National Historic...

As we departed Rapid City, South Dakota, we traveled through Spearfish Canyon toward Deadwood and Lead, old historic gold mining towns. ...

We recommend getting up early for this day, not only because there is a lot to pack in, but also the wildlife is more active in the...

The Badlands National Park was amazing and we highly recommend approaching it from Rapid City to get the full astounding visual effect. ...

Our first adventure takes us from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Casper, Jackson, and Yellowstone, Wyoming, and ends in Bozeman, Montana. ...