Hytreks: Our 2020–2021 Family Road Trip
Hytreks is the digital home for the 2020–2021 family road trip of Kristy, Ben, and Owen Hymans. This completed journey follows their travels across the United States, with stories, photographs, and videos from national parks and the places in between.
Latest from the road
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Saguaro National Park – Arizona
The giant Saguaro cacti are an iconic symbol of the American southwest, and this park is full of them! The desert has its own harsh kind of allure and we…
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Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona
We rang in the the 2021 new year in a style perfect for us, by visiting Grand Canyon National Park. Even though it was a little busy, we consider ourselves…
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Petrified Forest National Park – Arizona
225 Million years ago. That’s when the trees that would eventually become the Petrified Forest lived. As humans, it’s hard to wrap our brains around that kind of time scale.…
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Mesa Verde National Park – Colorado
The first National Park that we visited that was primarily archaeological in nature, Mesa Verde left us inspired and awestruck at the engineering capabilities of the ancestral Puebloan people.
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park – Colorado
One of the lesser known, and least visited National Parks, Black Canyon of the Gunnison turned out to be one of our favorites. A massive winter storm dumped over a…