Shenendoah National Park

western Virginia Visited: Sometime Soon NPS Site Visited: Not There Yet NPS Website Our plan was to sneak down to Shenandoah NP for a few days after our office’s annual conference. We thought the first week in November would be prime foliage falling season. Just as we were packing our bags we received a surprise [...]

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Blue Ridge Parkway

stretches from Shenandoah NP, Va. to Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tenn. Visited: October 30, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 276 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 469 miles of two-lane road that follows the Appalachian Mountain ridgeline, each mile more breathtaking than the last. BEAUTY (10/10) The Parkway rides the long, bumpy spine [...]

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

near Gatlinburg, Tenn. Visited: October 26, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 271 of 353 NPS Website WHAT IS IT? Wonderfully vast and diverse Appalachian mountain park that boasts over 500,000 acres and more plant species than the continent of Europe. This wilderness playground is home to many superlatives including our most visited National Park and our [...]

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Carl Sandburg National Historic Site

Flat Rock, N.C. Visited: October 26, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 270 of 353 NPS Website WHAT IS IT? Longtime home (and goat farm) of Carl Sandburg, famed 20th-century American poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer. BEAUTY (6/10) The Sandburg’s whitewashed clapboard house is probably the least impressive home along the streets of Flat Rock. Its interior [...]

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