Today is the birthday of the National Parks. I got to thinking about how amazing these little jewels are. How they provide us with a sense of who we are and how the land looked before we encroached on it. So, curious, I looked at the list of oh-so-many NP and here is where I have been:
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace - Hodgenville, KY
Acadia NP - Bar Harbor, ME
Antietam - Sharpsburg, MD
Arches NP - Moab, UT
Badlands NP - SD
Big South Fork - Oneida, TN
Black Canyon of the Gunnison - Gunnison, CO
Blue Ridge Parkway - Asheville, NC
Cabrillo Nat'l Monument - San Diego, CA
Cape Hatteras - Manteo, NC
Chaco Culture - Nageezi, NM
Chas. Pickney House - Sullivan's Island, SC
Cumberland Gap - Middlesboro, KY
Devil's Tower - Devil's Tower, WY
Florissant Fossil Beds - Florissant, CO
Fort Sumter - Sullivan's Island, SC
Gauley River- Summersville, WV
Glacier NP - West Glacier, MT
Grand Teton NP - Moose, WY
Great Smoky Mtn NP - Gatlinburg, TN
Harry S Truman House Independence, MO
Hopewell Culture Park - Chillicothe, OH
Independence Hall - Philadelphia, PA
James A Garfield House - Concord, OH
Little Bighorn Battlefield - Crow Agency, MT
Mammoth Cave NP - Mammoth Cave, KY
Mississippi River - St. Paul, MN
Mount Rushmore - Keystone, SD
Padre Island - Corpus Christi, TX
Perry's Victory and Peace Memorial - Put-In-Bay, OH
Petroglyph Nat'l Monument - Albuquerque, NM
Rocky Mtn NP - Estes Park, CO
St Croix River - St Croix, WI
Shenandoah NP - Luray, VA
Theodore Roosevelt NP - Medora, ND
Trail of Tears
Voyageurs NP - Internat'l Falls, MN
Wm Howard Taft House - CIncinnati, OH
Wright Bros Memorial - Manteo, NC
Wupatki - Flagstaff, AZ
Yellowstone NP - Yellowstone, WY
That's quite a list - so far. Not bad for someone who solos. A few biggies absent.
So if I were to make my bucket list of place to see, it would include:
Washington DC
Bryce Canyon NP
Canyon de Chelly
Crater Lake
Denali
Ellis Island
Grand Canyon
Isle Royale
Muir Woods
Kenai Fjords
Manzanar
Mount Rainier
Nathcez Trace
Redwood NP
Sand Creek
Wrangell-St. Elias
Yosemite
Zion
If I had to only choose a couple of those - Denali, Canyon de Chelly, Muir Woods, Yosemite.
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