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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Mount Rainier National Park

near Enumclaw, Wash. Visited: July 26, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 223 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? Standing 14,410 feet, Mount Rainier is the tallest and most imposing of the Cascade Range’s volcanic peaks. BEAUTY (10/10) On a clear Seattle day, she hovers omnipresent in the background like a lurking flying saucer. [...]

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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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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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Grand Teton National Park

near Jackson, Wyo. Visited: September 17, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 96 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website Want More? Click Here for our Grand Teton Hiking Story WHAT IS IT? A thin spine of magnificent mountains, twelve rising over 12,000 feet, which stand, unobstructed by foothills, over glacial lakes and rippling meadows. BEAUTY (10/10) When [...]

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Yellowstone National Park – South

Lower Geyser Basin, Old Faithful, West Thumb, Grant Village, Fishing Bridge, South Entrancenorthwest corner of Wyoming Visited: September 16, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 84 of 353 NPS Website Yellowstone National Park is a diverse natural wonderland roughly twice the size of the state of Delaware. We have broken our Yellowstone reviews into three separate entries: [...]

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Glacier National Park

northwest Montana Visited: August 29, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 85 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? 1,000,000 acres of Montana wilderness. The numerous ruggedly steep U-shaped canyons that the Park is famous for were created by centuries of glacial erosion. Glacier NP lies at an ecological crossroads and boasts a dazzling diversity [...]

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Yellowstone National Park – North

Mammoth Hot Springs, Tower-Roosevelt, Lamar Valley northwest corner of Wyoming Visited: August 22, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 84 of 353 NPS Website; USGS Website Yellowstone National Park is a diverse natural wonderland roughly twice the size of the state of Delaware. Because of the Park’s immense size and staggering variety of experiences, we have broken [...]

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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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Acadia National Park

on Mount Desert Island, Maine Visited: April 21, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 29 of 353 NPS Website WHAT IS IT? The first National Park east of the Mississippi. The majority of Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Rugged Maine Atlantic Ocean coastline, granite-domed bald mountains, 45 miles of paved carriage roads paved by John D. Rockefeller and [...]

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