Water is here. Water is there. Water is everywhere! Water is Everglades National Park. Celebrating it’s 75th birthday in 2022, Everglades remains one of the most vital and unique of the National Park Service of the United States, and a UNESCO site.. Receiving 60 inches of rainfall a year, (or twice the amount of the […]
Someone once said “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Getting to Great Basin National Park in Nevada, USA, is half the fun. It is likely you will travel there on U.S. Highway 50, the “Lincoln Highway,” also known as the “Loneliest Road in America.” You will see small-town museums at their finest, centuries-old courthouses, and […]
Imagine, if you will, how the plains and prairies of Midwest America used to appear before the eyes of the beholders, had they been farmers, traders, or frontiers people of any ilk who came upon these lands. This diverse ecosystem, both flora and fauna, stretched out in all directions and covered nearly one-third of North […]
October 21, 2022, marks the 23rd birthday of this National Park in Colorado. That means Black Canyon of the Gunnison is one of the youngest American National Park landmarks, but geologically, its appearance is one of the oldest. Rock formations in the steep cliff walls at this Park go back billions of years. Similar to […]
Part Two of this series of small town museum collections contains pictures from Southwest Utah. As part of the American Southwest, locals take pride in their remembrance of bye-gone days — culture and history of simpler times — and have restored and preserved this life of the past. The video shows two Utah state park […]
In 1869, the continental United States was joined together by a railroad that spanned the entire country from coast to coast. In the East, the Union Pacific Railroad headed west from Omaha through wild and sparsely-settled prairies. And from the West, the Central Pacific Railroad climbed through mountain passes and ranges to reach its destination. […]
There’s more pictures of Glacier National Park in today’s video set to a little, jazzy, groovin’ number called “Coastin’ Time.”
Hello again, and welcome to summer! I’m going to talk a little about this park today and show you a video of what you might expect at this place. It’s a big place, so give yourself plenty of time to hike, camp, fish, golf, explore, and enjoy. Glacier was established as a national park in […]
Today is Memorial Day, and it is the unofficial kickoff to summer. To all, have a fun, safe, and beautiful summer this year. This one is dedicated to Uvalde. God bless.
What more can I say about Yellowstone that hasn’t already been said -“the best,” “the first,” “waterfalls,” “geothermal geysers, mud pots, hot springs,” “colorful,” “Grand Canyon of the north,” “wildlife,” “Old Faithful,” on and on. The landscapes around the park also are memorable – Grand Tetons, Snake River, Beartooth Mountains, et cetera, et cetera, et […]