Canyonlands National Park is a stunning and vast region of canyons carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers, hoodoos and arches spanning across the red-rock Moab region. These are…
What a year 2024 has been. It’s been a weird, hard year while also having some of my biggest growth, some huge successes and beautiful adventures. While I’m not…
Zion National Park is absolutely of the US’s iconic sites. Angels Landing tops many lists of most beautiful and/or most treacherous hiking lists and the stunning red walls that…
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…
When most people think of visiting Illinois, they think of Chicago, but over the last few years we’ve discovered some really surprising stops in Illinois. We love Chicago, but…
Shafer Trail is one of the most iconic dirt road drives in the Moab area. If you’ve visited the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park, it’s…
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:…