Parks Visited

Yosemite NP, California - the classic
Lassen NP, California - volcanoes
Pinnacles NM, California - stiff hikes to rugged rock formations
Zion NP, Utah - canyons, red rocks
Bryce NP, Utah - more canyons and red rocks
Escalante NM, Utah - giant geological staircase through the ages
Capital Reef NP, Utah - fantastic red rock formations
Natural Bridges NM, Utah - rock bridges in a canyon
Arches NP, Utah - arches in the sky
Canyonlands NP, Utah - huge views
Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, Colorado - narrow canyon and tall cliffs
Fort Larned NHS, Kansas - fort guarding the Santa Fe trail
Pea Ridge NMP, Arkansas - civil war battlefield where Union troops won
Wilson's Creek NB, Missouri - civil war battlefield belonging to the confederates
Mammoth Cave NP, Kentucky - possibly the least interesting cave I've visited
Lincoln's Birthplace NHS, Kentucky - a well traveled single room cabin in the woods
Cumberland Gap NHS, Kentucky - wonderful country and evocative history
Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennessee - vast vistas of trees and hills
Great Smoky Mountains NP, North Carolina - pioneer farm exhibit
Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina, Virginia - twisty road with magnificent views
Gettysburg NMP, Pennsylvania - the big battle site of the civil war
Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania - where George Washington got his start
Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP, Ohio - up up and away with the Wright brothers
Hopewell Culture NHP, Ohio - woodland Indians who built mounds and earthworks
New River Gorge NR, West Virginia - ancient river running wrong way through America
Bluestone NSR, West Virginia - another river
Gauley River NRA, West Virginia - they like their rivers in West Virginia
Antietam NB, Maryland - the scene of the worst of the civil war battles
Congaree Swamp NM, South Carolina - where a swamp is not a swamp
Andersonville NHS, Georgia - depressing prisoner of war site and memorial
Jimmy Carter NHS, Georgia - small town boy comes good
Fort Caroline NM, Florida - where the French couldn't hang on
Timucuan NP, Florida - rich area of biodiversity on the coast
Castillo de San Marcos NM, Florida - where the Spanish, French and English hung on
Horseshoe Bend NMP, Alabama - site of the deciding battle with the Creek indians
Gulf Islands NP, Mississippi - barrier islands off in the distance
Jean Lafitte NHP&P, Louisiana - series of parks mostly about Cajuns
Big Thicket NP, Texas - the remnants of a huge once impenetrable forest
Fort Davis NHP, Texas - frontier fort on the Santa Fe trail
Guadalupe NP, Texas - ancient reef with its own ecosystem on top
Carlsbad Caverns NP, New Mexico - impressive system of caves
Salinas Pueblo Missions NM, New Mexico - series of indian villages with Spanish churches
Pecos NHP, New Mexico - a large pueblo village in a lovely setting high in the hills
Petrified Forest NP, Arizona - ancient logs laying about
Joshua Tree NP, California - desert trees