Lone Pine, Calif.
Visited: October 15, 2004
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
National Forest Website; Mount Whitney Info
WHAT IS IT?
The eastern gateway to the top of Mount Whitney, the tallest point in the lower 48 states.
BEAUTY (10/10)
The Inyo National Forest must be the inspiration for wall murals and Bob Ross-type paintings around the world. It is [...]
Archive for October, 2004
Mount Whitney Portal (Inyo National Forest)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Manzanar National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
near Independence, Calif.
Visited: October 14, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 113 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Manzanar NHS remembers the forceful detainment of ten of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Manzanar was the site of one of ten “War Relocation Centers”.
BEAUTY (6/10)
If Japanese Americans had freedom of movement in and [...]
Tuzigoot National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2004 | 1 Comment »
near Clarkdale, Ariz.
Visited: October 9, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 110 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Remnants of a multiple story southern Sinagua Indian village that contained at least 75 rooms. Archeologists believe that the Sinagua inhabited the village for 300 years, from the years 1100 to 1400.
BEAUTY (7/10)
Tuzigoot NM is larger but not as well [...]
Cape Lookout National Seashore
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Outer Banks, N.C.
Visited: October 16, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 262 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
56 miles of uninhabited North Carolina barrier island seashore reachable only via privately run ferries. You need to track down those boaters on your own with information available in and around the towns of Ocracoke, Harker’s Island and Atlantic.
We cannot lie. We [...]
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2004 | 1 Comment »
near Camp Verde, Ariz.
Visited: October 9, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 109 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
An almost fully intact five-story twenty-room 12th-century southwestern Indian building constructed on the side of a limestone cliff. The Site also includes Montezuma Well, a limestone sinkhole that provided the Sinagua people with a desert oasis for hundreds of years.
BEAUTY (7/10)
Montezuma [...]
Manzanar National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
near Independence, Calif.
Visited: October 14, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 113 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Manzanar NHS remembers the forceful detainment of ten of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Manzanar was the site of one of ten “War Relocation Centers”.
BEAUTY (6/10)
If Japanese Americans had freedom of movement in and [...]
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2004 | 1 Comment »
near Flagstaff, Ariz.
Visited: October 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 108 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Unimpressive cliff dwellings built in low ceiling rock ledges on the side of Walnut Canyon. The NPS indicates that the Sinagua Indians first constructed the makeshift brick abodes in the year 1125 and fully abandoned them by 1250.
BEAUTY (6/10)
Even though the [...]
Wupatki National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on October 10, 2004 | 2 Comments »
near Flagstaff, Ariz.
Visited: October 7, 2004
NPS Site Visited: 107 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Red limestone and sandstone brick ruins of pueblos believed to have been built some 1,000 years ago by ancestors of present-day Hopi and Zuni Indians. The structures were inhabited for about 100 years until they were abandoned around the year [...]
Grand Canyon National Park Story – Day 6
Posted in National Parks on October 3, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Indian Gardens to the South Rim
Michael:
I have been dreading this day. Up and out of the Grand Canyon. 4½ miles, 3000 feet up. The numbers actually make the task seem easier, believe it or not. Looking straight up toward your goal is more than a bit troublesome. But we are ready.
The morning started off [...]
Grand Canyon National Park Story – Day 5
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Cottonwood to Indian Gardens
Gab:
I am a cancer survivor. I know that at least one out of ten Americans can (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) can say the same thing. I don’t think I am anything special. I don’t necessarily feel good when people say that I “beat” or “conquered” the [...]
