Category: National Parks
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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…
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Canyonlands National Park – Utah
Canyonlands National Park is like the movie Inception, but with canyons. There are canyons inside of canyons and the deeper you go, the more canyons there are. The hikes were…
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Arches National Park – Utah
Arches National Park contains an unbelievable assortment of natural stone arches, but that’s not all we found there. We visited this park a few times over several days and found…
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Capitol Reef National Park – Utah
Capitol Reef was the third of Utah’s “Mighty Five” on our agenda. We were struck by the coloration of the rock walls and unusual geology this park had to offer.…
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Bryce Canyon National Park – Utah
From hoodoos and fins to natural bridges, Bryce Canyon National Park is a dramatic landscape. We walked along the rim of a canyon that’s not technically a canyon and tried…
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Zion National Park – Utah
One of the more well known and popular National Parks, Zion is known for its red-walled canyons combined with lush green plant life. We got a few surprises at this…
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Great Basin National Park – Nevada
This National Park is one of the most remote places we have visited so far. The trek through the Nevada desert rewarded us with surprising Fall colors, and gnarly 4,000…
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Olympic National Park – Washington
Olympic has three distinct ecosystems that each could warrant their own National Park. We were battling smoke and poor air quality from a particularly severe wildfire season, but we were…