Tag: national park

This was my second trip to the Grand Canyon and I still don’t know how to put a description into words. I took lots of panoramic photos which I will share here. But they don’t do the view justice. more “Road Trip: Grand Canyon National Park” …

After spending the day in Bryce and the evening nearby, I woke up on Monday, December 4 and made my way to Zion National Park. Zion’s history is really interesting. The landscape and presence of the Virgin River lent itself easily to being farmed, and not just by settlers of European descent. There is evidence of the indigenous people farming on the land as well. In the mid-1800s Mormon settlers came to the area and named the area Zion, a biblical reference, and named many of the features with religious overtones: the Altar of Sacrifice, the Great White Throne, the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and Prodigal Son among others. more “Road Trip: Zion National Park” …

After getting thoroughly soaked and being unable to do a lot of the things I would have liked to and see generally anything in Yosemite I changed course. Additionally, I needed a new plan to get to Nevada and Utah since Tioga Pass had closed. Solution: use the National Parks Annual Pass even more than planned and hit up Death Valley National Park. After reading more about it in my National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, I got even more excited about going. There is so much neat stuff there! And I did not feel like the pioneers who crossed the valley, who described their passage as filled with “hunger and thirst and an awful silence.” more “Road Trip: Death Valley National Park” …