Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park

Crater Lake might be called the tour de force national park. It is like a great one-act play, a volcanic crater left over from a major eruption.

Art of the Family Reunion

For eighteen years my four sisters and I, accompanied by our parents, spouses, significant others, and children, gathered for an annual summer family reunion.

RV Travel: Onward to Utah

I decided to take my family of five in an RV from our home near San Francisco out to see Salt Lake and the five National Parks of Utah, plus Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

Helihiking the Rockies of Canada in the Summer

Helihiking the Rockies of Canada with Canadian Mountain Holidays can take you by helicopter into remote areas. You get dropped with a group and a guide, take an hour’s walk, and the helicopter returns to take you to a new site.

Arkansas’s Clinton Country and the Natural State

Arkansas promotes itself as “the natural state,” but it can now also say it’s the state of the political natural, Bill Clinton. Among its natural resources are Hot Springs National Park and the lakes and woods in the Ouachita National Forest.

Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park

America’s most popular park is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in eastern Tennessee and northern North Carolina. It draws over 8.5 million visitors each year.

Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park

Isle Royale, our island wilderness National Park, lures visitors both for its seen and unseen attractions.

Freedom Trail in Boston, Massachusetts

I came to Boston to walk its celebrated Freedom Trail, marching all the way up to Bunker Hill to re-awaken in myself the fervor of the original dream of freedom that sparked the American Revolution.

Wildlife Encounters at Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone was our first national park and in many ways has advanced the concept of national parks more than any other unit in the system.

Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park in Winter

Only 3 percent of the 3 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park each year arrive in winter, roughly from October 1 to April 1. However, during that time, the main pleasures of Yellowstone–sighting animals, watching scenery, and visiting the thermal basins–are most spectacular.

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