Chronicling the adventures of the NH Nomads
National or State Park or other area of interest
We had a dozen hikes lined up as options for the day that we passed through Sedona. Once we saw that most of this hike could be done with a 4WD vehicle, we thought it would be a fun place to see what the our rented Jeep could do!
The National Parks Passport Book creates this insatiable urge to see what sort of NPS sites are nearby whenever and wherever we travel, so that we can get that stamp! For Spring break we traveled to visit family in Atlanta and Nashville. We weren’t able to go out of the way at all in Atlanta to get any stamps. In Nashville, we did find ourselves with an extra day, so we took a short drive to Murfreesboro to visit an NPS site that we would have probably not known about if it were not for the Passport Book.
Prior to planning this trip, none of us had even heard of Great Basin National Park. It seems as though we were not the only ones, this is one of the least visited US National Parks in the system. Once we saw that we could have the opportunity to take a cave tour, hike on a glacier, and walk among some 2000-year-old Bristlecone Pine trees, we had to put it on our agenda!
Today is set aside for one thing and one thing only. We will take in as much of the Grand Canyon as we can between sunrise and sunset!
Continue reading “Grand Canyon”
We chose to visit Cuyahoga Valley National Park to get our Fourth Grade “Every Kid in a Park” Pass in preparation for our trip out west in a few weeks.