Category: National Parks & Monuments

Pipe Spring National Monument was established in 1923 after Steven Mather, the first director of the National Park Service realized this old fort fascinated tourists making the trip from Zion National Park to the...

We unexpectedly picked up a last minute cancellation for three nights at Wind Cave National Park’s Elk Mountain Campground. This is a wonderful surprise as it’s typically booked solid this time of year due...

Grand Portage Casino We make “camp” for this leg of our trip in the back corner of the parking lot at the Grand Portage Casino. How did we end up in a parking lot?...

The St. Croix National Scenic Riverway is over 200 miles of clean water that flows through the forests of both Wisconsin and Minnesota. It consists of the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers and offers...

The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is made up 21 islands plus a stretch of shoreline at the northern tip of Wisconsin. There’s very few campgrounds in this area that take reservations and we weren’t...

The Keweenaw Peninsula is home to the Keweenaw National Historic Park. Established in 1992, the park celebrates the history of the Keweenaw Peninsula through it’s twenty-one heritage sites located throughout the peninsula. We begin...

We explore Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in two phases. The first from the north/east side via Muskallonge State Park and the second from the south/west via the city of Munising. Muskallonge State Park The...

We awake at our campsite in Leelanua State Park to a dense fog rolling in off the lake and the sound of fog horns blaring warnings to the passing ships. Is the ferry going...

THE LEGEND of SLEEPING BEAR DUNES says that a mama bear and her two cubs attempted to swim across Lake Michigan after a great hunger in Wisconsin. The bears were exhausted; but as the...