National/State Park Archives

September 22, 2019
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Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park was established to preserve and interpret the archeological heritage of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years. Continue reading →

August 16, 2019
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Beauty Mountain

Beauty Mountain is an unbroken stretch of sandstone cliffs running along the rim of the New River Gorge, east of Fayetteville, West Virginia. Continue reading →

May 2, 2019
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Keys View – Joshua Tree National Park

Keys View is an overlook in Joshua Tree National Park located on the crest of the Little San Bernardino Mountains which provides panoramic views of the Coachella Valley below. Continue reading →

April 19, 2019
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Graupel at Turkey Spur Overlook

Note: This post is one of a series about our visit to New River Gorge and Bridge in late October 2018. Unfortunately, there was not a lot of color in the trees then. For details of the New River National … Continue reading →

March 21, 2019
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Joshua Tree Geology

The rocks and hills that form the landscape of Joshua Tree has long fascinated visitors to this desert. How did the rocks take on such fantastic shapes? What forces sculpted them? Continue reading →

March 9, 2019
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Joshua Trees

The Joshua Tree (a member of the lily family) is native to the arid southwestern United States, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert. Continue reading →

January 25, 2019
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New River Gorge Bridge

The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries US Rt. 19 over the New River Gorge, near Fayetteville, West Virginia. Completed in 1977, it is currently the third highest bridge in the USA. With an arch 1,700 feet long, it originally was the world’s longest single-span arch bridge; it is now the world’s fourth longest single-span arch bridge. Continue reading →