Matthiessen State Park wasn’t even on my radar when we took a camping trip to Illinois. In fact, our trip up there was based around a totally different state…
This year, for our father/daughter hiking trip, my dad requested that we visit a national park so that he could get his copy of my National Parks Journal stamped…
Sequoia National Park in California is a truly incredible national park. It’s filled with trails through some of the oldest, biggest trees in the world, up some of the…
Mammoth Cave is Kentucky’s one national park, located in the south-central region of the state. This park is most famous for Goliath cave that gives the park its name:…
Petrified Forest National Park isn’t one of the most-visited national parks, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth visiting. I have found that this is a divisive park,…
Yosemite National Park is one of those places that everyone talks about, but you just truly can’t grasp until you’re there. The scale of the grandeur of Yosemite –…
Every national park is unique because of this, no two national park experiences are the same. After multiple visits, we’ve come up with a list things to know before…
Big Bend is the 40th-most-visited National Park in the US, which means, that while it sees 500k-ish visitors annually, it’s still a bit of a mystery to a lot…
