Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire is located about 45 minutes northeast of Las Vegas and is Neveda’s largest state park. The geological wonderland became known as “Valley of Fire” in the 1920s after gaining popularity with...
My Blog Posts
-
-
Death Valley National Park
Although I grew up in Southern California, this is my first visit to Death Valley: my twentieth national park this year. Native Americans inhabited the valley as early as 7,000 BC, but it was...
-
Joshua Tree National Park
Located in southeastern California about 40 miles due east of Palm Springs is Joahua Tree National Park. This park is an old friend because I used to camp here annual when I was in...
-
Grand Canyon National Park
The Grand Canyon has been occupied by humans for more than 25,000 years. Long before the arrival of European-Americans, the indigenous people of the canyon had established trails, farms, trade routes, and villages in...
-
Antelope Canyon
Located on the Navajo Nation just east of Page, Arizona is the spectacular slot canyon of Antelope Canyon. There are actually six separate, scenic slot canyon sections with Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons being...
-
Zion National Park
Zion National Park is a secluded canyon where red and white sandstone cliffs of southwest Utah tower hundreds of feet above the Virgin River, which meanders through a network of narrow canyons. Ancient nomadic...
-
Monument Valley
Monument Valley (known as Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii in Navajo) is located in the southern region of the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by a large collection of sandstone buttes. Some of these buttes rise...
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt to preserve the cultural and historic significance of the site. For thousands of years people have traveled through and built thriving communities...
Canyonlands National Park
Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands National Park preserves a wilderness of rock at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. Over hundreds of millions of years, water and gravity have cut flat sedimentary rock into...
Arches National Park
Arches National Park is located eight miles north of Moab in eastern Utah and preserves 76,679 acres of high desert on the Colorado Plateau. First established as a national monument in 1929, Arches National...
Capitol Reef National Park
Located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef National Park is my thirteenth national park since embarking on this adventure. Capitol Reef’s defining geological feature is a 100-mile wrinkle...
Bryce Canyon National Park
Ebenezer Bryce was a Scottish-born shipwright who as an 18-year-old converted to Mormonism and then moved to Utah where he married Mary Ann Park. At the direction of church officials, the Bryces became serial...
Idaho
After leaving Glacier National Park, I made my west to Logan State Park located in the Thompson Lakes region of Montana for a relaxing Labor Day. My plan calls for me to traverse the...
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park is located in northern Montana bordering Alberta, Canada. Its name is derived from the forces that created the numerous jagged peaks, deep valleys, and large lakes. About 1.6 billion years ago,...
Montana
After leaving Yellowstone and visiting Cody for a few days, I made my way to the “Big Sky” state of Montana where I would remain for most of the month of August 2024. I...
Yellowstone National Park
On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law and the world’s first national park was born. At the heart of Yellowstone’s past, present, and future...
Grand Teton National Park
Located in the northwest corner of Wyoming bordering Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park was established in 1929 and encompasses some 310,000 acres of wilderness, rugged mountains, and pristine lakes. I visited Grand Teton National...
