Pea Ridge, Ark.
Visited: August 31, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 243 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of the March 1862 Civil War battle that “saved Missouri for the Union”.
BEAUTY (3/10)
The concepts of “well-preserved” and “endangered” battlefields appear attached to every Civil War Site we visit. Here are the questions we have developed to understand these [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Pea Ridge National Military Park
Posted in National Military Park, tagged Arkansas, Battlefield, Civil War on August 31, 2005 | 2 Comments »
William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Little Rock, Ark.
Visited: August 30, 2005
NPS Site Visited: Not an NPS Site
Presidential Library Visted: 10 of 12
Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
The Presidential Library and Museum of our 42nd president, William Jefferson Clinton.
BEAUTY (4/10)
The Clinton Library and Museum looks like a giant glass 2×4. Half of the building seems suspended in mid-air, jutting out towards the Arkansas [...]
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Arkansas, Civil War, Colonization, Fort, France, Ghost Town, New World, Revo, Swamp on August 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
near Gould, Ark.
Visited: August 29, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 240 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of one of France’s earliest permanent New World settlements. For almost 200 years, from 1686 to 1863, the Arkansas Post was an important city but now nothing remains.
BEAUTY (5/10)
The Park is a murky peninsula, surrounded on its wide sides [...]
Hot Springs National Park
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Hot Springs, Ark.
Visited: August 28, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 239 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
A row of 19th-century bathhouses located above the curative waters of 47 odorless hot springs.
BEAUTY (7/10)
Hot Springs NP does not look like a National Park. We followed the signs pointing us to the Park but when they indicated we were [...]
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Visited: August 26, 2005
NPS Site Visited: Not an Official Site
NPS Affiliate Site Visited: 12 of 26
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Outdoor Memorial and privately-run interactive museum dedicated to the memory of those lost in the 1995 terrorist bombing of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
BEAUTY (6/10)
The Outdoor Memorial is located on the [...]
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument and Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
near Fritch, Texas
Visited: August 25, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 234 and 235 of 353
NPS Alibates Flint Quarries NM Website; NPS Lake Meredith NRA Website
WHAT IS IT?
The Alibates Flint Quarries NM, pronounced al-ee-BATES, showcases evidence of 12,000 years of human life and includes some of America’s most ornate and, historically, most prized flint stones. The surrounding 12-mile [...]
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Cheyenne, Okla.
Visited: August 25, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 236 of 353
NPS Website; Local Website
WHAT IS IT?
Site of the November 1868 battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Plains Indians.
BEAUTY (3/10)
Fields of tall grass, hordes of grasshoppers and stifling heat and humidity. Welcome to Oklahoma. In pictures, the sky looks wonderfully blue. In person it looks [...]
Rocky Mountain National Park
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Estes Park, Colo.
Visited: August 22, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 233 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
A vast expanse of awe-inspiring high-country mountain wilderness highlighted by largest and most accessible tundra ecosystem in the continental United States.
BEAUTY (10/10)
At Rocky Mountain NP, you are on top of the world. Nothing spoils the view, not ski slopes, telephone lines or [...]
Colorado National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on August 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Grand Junction, Colo.
Visited: August 20, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 230 of 353
NPS Website
WHAT IS IT?
Breathtaking red sandstone rock formations, canyons and mesas standing near the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers.
BEAUTY (8/10)
The red-rock mesas, 2,000-foot high cliffs, eroded sandstone spires and oddly beautiful scenery of Colorado NM are a preview of the madness to follow [...]
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area
Posted in National Parks, National Recreation Area, tagged Canyons, Colorado, Geology, Railroad, Wildflowers on August 20, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Montrose and Gunnison, Colo.
Visited: August 20, 2005
NPS Site Visited: 231 and 232 of 353
NPS Black Canyon NP Website; NPS Curecanti NRA Website
WHAT IS IT?
The Black Canyon is deep, narrow canyon formed by the Gunnison River whose schist and gneiss walls give it its dark appearance. The nearby Curecanti NRA consists of three reservoirs created by [...]
