Thanksgiving Week: Turkeys at Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave’s Thanksgiving connection is probably lost on anyone except the usa-c2c.com team. Here’s a hint: look at the accompanying picture. Yes indeedy, Mammoth Cave is where we saw the trip’s first wild turkey. What a turkey it was! His red gullet was swinging, his large breast was fully puffed, his feathers were furled, and [...]

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Zion National Park

near Springdale, Utah Visited: September 25, 2004 Second Visit: April 21, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 102 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 229 square miles of beautiful scenery centered around the profound steep gorges shaped by the Virgin River and its tributaries with a little help from geological uplift. BEAUTY (10/10) Zion [...]

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Everglades National Park – Gulf Coast

near Everglades City, Fla. Visited: January 4, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the northwestern portion of the Park; the area serviced by the Gulf Coast Visitor Center. [...]

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Big Cypress National Preserve

southern Florida Visited: January 2, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 132 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 729,000 acres consisting primarily of cypress forests. This large expanse of land serves as a watershed to the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress N PRES’ neighbor to the south. BEAUTY (7/10) The wild beauty of lurking [...]

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Grand Canyon National Park – Inner Canyon and Canyon Floor

northern Arizona Visited: October 1, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 105 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website Want More? Click Here to Begin Our Six-Day Grand Canyon Adventure WHAT IS IT? The guts of the Grand Canyon. The 277-mile long Colorado River, beginning in Lees Ferry, Arizona and ending at Lake Mead. Whether you whitewater raft [...]

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Voyageurs National Park

near International Falls, Minn. Visited: June 4, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 51 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? A boreal forest ecosystem carved by Ice Age glacial action consisting of dozens of lakes and hundreds if not thousands of islands. Voyageurs NP is a water-based park. 84,000 acres of water, in fact. [...]

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Isle Royale National Park

in Lake Superior Visited: May 26, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 49 of 353 Local Website Want More? Click Here to Begin Our Seven-Day Isle Royale Adventure WHAT IS IT? The largest Island in the world’s largest freshwater lake. Isle Royale NP is a World Heritage Biosphere. Isle Royale is an incredible 99% wilderness. The 1% [...]

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