Category: USA
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Jackson Hole is a fairly touristy city, popular mostly for its proximity to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks as well as several ski resorts in the area. I used this city as a launching point for my visit to Grand Teton National Park, but there are plenty of points of interest within the city…
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Devils Tower National Monument
America’s first National Monument, Devils Tower is famous for its incredible granite sculpture reminiscent of an enormous stone tree stump. Movie fans may recognize this National Monument from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This striking monolith is only two hours away from Mount Rushmore and is extremely popular for casual views and avid climbers…
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Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park is one of my favorite excursions out of Las Vegas. Just about an hour outside the city strip, Valley of Fire features some incredible red rock formations- and I say this as someone who’s spent a significant amount of time around red rocks! We made a quick cell service-related pit…
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Skidaway Island State Park
Regular readers of my blog can probably take a guess that I’m not much of a city person. As much as I enjoyed my visit to Savannah, Georgia, I did make sure to take the opportunity to get out of the city to explore the surrounding areas. Skidaway Island State Park is just about a…
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Angry Orchard’s Cider House
Having cornered the market on American hard ciders, Angry Orchard’s Cider House in Walden New York is endlessly popular with visitors- and with good reason! Having only incidentally driven past the Cider House, it was fairly late in the afternoon and extremely crowded- we got one of the last spots available in the overflow parking…
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North South Lake State Park
As one of the biggest and most popular campgrounds in the Catskills of New York, North South Lake State Park hosts over two-hundred campsites clustered around the Northern-most of it’s namesake lakes. This campground is the perfect launching point for many nearby hikes and viewpoints. A popular and relatively easy hike to the Catskill Mountain…
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Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
While Philadelphia is probably most well known for it’s cheesesteaks and its central role during the American Revolution, one of the things I like most about it is it’s creative atmosphere. I had taken a road trip here specifically to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but wanted to take a look at the now…
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Moreau Lake State Park- A Fall Foliage Favorite
In the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains and oft overlooked in favor of the ever popular Lake George, Moreau Lake State Park has quickly become one of my favorite New York parks for hiking through the fall foliage. I can’t keep using the phrase “hidden gem”, but really; people ought to be talking more about…
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Cuyahoga Valley- Ohio’s Backyard National Park
Smack in between New York and Chicago, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is one of the most bizarrely designed National Parks I’ve ever been to. Perhaps it is because the park was originally a National Recreation area, but the fact that it features natural, man-made, and private attractions is fairly unique to the park. Residential areas…
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A Shortcut Through Petrified Forest National Park
While perfectly able to host a multi-day adventure, the Petrified Forest National Park’s relatively small size and prime location smack in the middle between Interstate 40 and Highway 180 in Arizona makes it the perfect drive through park. A straight drive through the park takes about an hour, end to end, but obviously stopping points…