Made All The Difference Travel Blog
A twenty-something traveler out to see the world.
On my cross-country road trip from Tennessee to Colorado, I overshot by destination and ended up in Arizona. Since I was already there, I stopped to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Petrified Forest is a modern desert known for its fossilized wood from forest long past. This was a budget trip and I was trying to camp as much as possible to save money. The park does not have a campground. BUT one can get a backpacking permit for Painted Desert camping.
Yosemite National Park, Muir Woods National Monument, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wright Brothers National Memorial, San Juan National Historic Site, Big Cypress National Preserve, and Oregon National Historic Trail. All of these sites are managed by the National Park Service. All of them are part of the United States National Park System. The names are designed to help explain their purpose and level of protection. Sometimes the names are confusing and sometimes don’t make sense. To most visitors, the designation doesn’t matter but learning the national park system nomenclature can help understand the importance of these American Treasures.
2017 is almost over. It is time to begin planning your 2018 outdoor adventures. I asked my fellow travel bloggers to share their recommendations for a 2018 outdoor adventure. I had a tremendous response and had to break up the responses by region. Keep a look out of my other 2018 region adventure lists. Here are 18 travel bloggers recommendations for North American Outdoor Adventures in 2018.
The sun had long since set by the time I got to Crater Lake National Park. I had made the long drive from Davis, CA to Crater Lake National Park after work to spend the weekend in Oregon’s only national park. I couldn’t wait to check out Crater Lake as it would be my 42nd national park and the last of the Cascade mountain national parks. As with most of my trips, this was a last minute decision to spend the weekend in Crater Lake.
The United States has one of the world’s greatest system for protecting our natural resources. The national park system was started in 1872 when Yellowstone National Park was created. Since then 417 different national and historical resources have been added to our national park system. Each park is a wonder in itself. They are our national gems and are some of the most instagramable places in the world. I asked my fellow travel bloggers to share the most instagramable places in the United States National Parks (I shared a few of my favorite places as well).