national parks

Camped one night at Gulpha Gorge campground in Hot Springs National Park. We were in site 44 which backed up to creek and was at a spot where the water tumbled a few feet over some rocks across the creek. The sound of the water was great. This site is next to one of the bathrooms, but it does...

Ramble Inn's Second Long Haul The Midwest National Parks. I have been very negligent in submitting for this award as our trip was in 2019 the same year as our first Long Haul to the southwest and Texas. This trip was part of our quest to visit all the National Parks and was targeted at all...

We had another wonderful vacation (aren't they all?), this time visiting five NP's in the South and West. We left Chicago on the 28th of March and got home the 15th of April. Clocked a total of 4,348 miles. We normally don't do a long trip this early in the season, but we had the opportunity...

Our first Long Haul (and that took us over 25,000 total) came in April this year. Leaving Seattle, we headed out to Denver to see our very first grandchild, our oldest son and his wife had just delivered a baby girl. Linda could hardly stand the wait to see her. We made the trip in 3 days...

If you don't like rain, you probably won't like this place. Smokemont is near Cherokee, NC about 8 miles or so from town. This is one of the large campgrounds in the park and does take reservations. We camped on the non-generator loop so we were mostly around tent campers. There are a few...