Month: April 2021
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Everglades National Park – Florida
Lizards, alligators, crocodiles, manatees, dolphins and more! The Everglades caught us off-guard with its abundance of wildlife, and we had a blast exploring this park on foot and by boat.
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Hot Springs National Park – Arkansas
Four thousand years ago rain fell to the earth, seeped into the ground, got heated up, and eventually rose back up to the surface. And then we drank it as…
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Big Bend National Park – Texas
Big Bend is described as one of the most remote and least visited parks in the lower 48…we can attest to that. Our isolated campground had full hookups, and wifi…
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park – Texas
This park is Carlsbad Caverns lesser known nextdoor neighbor. Just a few miles down the road, and across the border into Texas, Guadalupe Mountains offers an above-ground and high-elevation perspective…
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park – New Mexico
How does a 1.25 mile hike down 750 feet into the earth on a slippery and dimly lit trail sound to you? Well it sounded like fun to us, so…
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White Sands National Park – New Mexico
One of our favorite parks so far, we had a blast romping around the dunes, making “snow” angels, and rolling down the hills. You’re not supposed to take any sand…
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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.