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…
Whew, November 2024… What a rollercoaster. I’m starting to realize, though, that life is just a rollercoaster, despite my best efforts. We started off slow, a little staycation, Bub…
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…
