Petrified Forest is an American National Park located in the southernmost Colorado Plateau desert region. Yes, you read that right — a forest in the desert, because it’s a forest like no other. Here, the petrified wood trees look like stones, granite, marble, or gems. You’ll see remnants of fossilized trees some 224 million years […]
Today’s offering in the National Parks, Memorials, and Monuments series is slightly different. Redwood National Parks in the north coastal California/Oregon border area actually are a combination of numerous state and federal parks, such as Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, and Redwoods National Park. There is no Visitors Center that […]
Happy New Year 2022!
We are going coast to coast from the previous post to today’s post, from the Gulf Coast to the Californian Bay Area-Bodega Bay Pacific Ocean Coast, on our tour of America’s National Parks, Memorials, and Monuments. Point Reyes National Seashore is a special place. Of course, there is the sand and waves of the seashore, […]
Today you can watch the Olympics. No, not the Olympic Games – Olympic National Park in Washington, U.S.A.! I call them the Olympics because there are so many different types of nature to see there. The park rises from ocean to mountaintop, rain forest to glacier, lakes to subalpine meadows. There is something for everybody […]
First of all, have a happy All Saints Day today, November 1st. Today I present my video of Acadia National Park in Maine, U.S.A., another park in the video series of national parks, memorials, and monuments compositions of the last few years. If you want to see it in person, as I recommend, now is […]
Mt. Rainier doesn’t get the glory it deserves. It may not be the grandest nor the tallest mountain in the U.S. National Park Service. In its Pacific Northwest home, often it is overlooked by Mt. Saint Helens, (a volcano like Mt. Rainier,) Olympic National Park, (sub-alpine like Rainier, but also Pacific Ocean coastline, plus tropical […]
In the continuing series of National Park, Memorial, and Monument videos, we return to California to view one of its national parks. Joshua Tree National Park is located close to the Palm Springs area, where you can see uber-cool mid-century modern architecture by the likes of Richard Neutra, Cliff May, etc. One can argue that […]
This post presents a musical video of photographs from the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, USA. There are some big-a** dunes there – the largest in North America. You can board down them (boards for rent,) or hike to the peaks of the tallest. This is an amazing, unique place in the national parks, preserves, […]