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Chickamauga and Chattanooga

Preserved alongside Gettysburg, Shiloh and Vicksburg in 1890, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park preserves sites from two battles fought near this area in late 1863 which spelled what one soldier called the “death knell of the Confederacy.” While the Confederates won the first battle in September, they allowed the Union army to escape to […]

Pecos

Pecos National Historical Park sits just a couple of miles from the busy I-25 corridor near Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, but it feels like a world apart. Surrounded by juniper forests and mountains, Pecos NHP is a beautiful place, but it’s not its beauty that makes it part of the National Park system. First declared […]

Kennesaw Mountain

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia preserves the site of the last major battle in the defense of Atlanta from Sherman’s advancing forces during the American Civil War. Despite being outnumbered 2:1, Johnston’s Confederates held out against Sherman’s forces in two separate attacks in June of 1964. While it was a tactical victory for the […]

Mount Vernon Trail

Do you like to bike? Then you should try Mount Vernon Trail in Washington, D.C.  Mount Vernon Trail is an 18-mile long trail that extends from George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate to Arlington National Cemetery. It was first opened in 1972 as a multi-use path after biking became popular along the nearby George Washington Parkway. […]

National Capital Parks East

National Capital Parks-East is a collection of National Park Service sites on the Maryland side of D.C.  The sites include open spaces, homes of historical figures, boardwalks and piers, old forts, and even farms. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating  ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I visited the southernmost of the National […]

Gettysburg

Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania preserves the site of the largest battle ever fought in North America and the turning point of the U.S. Civil War. The battle involved more than 160,000 troops and marked the end of General Robert E. Lee’s excursion into the North. The park surrounds the small town of Gettysburg, […]

Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, at the corner of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, protects an area full of rich US history. George Washington chose this area as the location for a major US arsenal, Thomas Jefferson marveled at the beauty of the mountains rising from the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, Meriwether Lewis […]

Richmond

Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia, consists of several units in and around Richmond, Virginia which protect the locations of key Civil War battles and defensive positions which protected the Confederate capitol of Richmond in two campaigns in 1862 and 1864. The park is also home to the historic Tredegar Iron Works, a civil war-era hospital […]