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Route 66

  Route 66 is an icon of the golden age of automobile travel in America. While US Highway 66 was officially decommissioned in 1985, it’s still easy to travel pieces of this route from Chicago to Los Angeles and revisit a bit of history along the way. While not officially a National Park, Route 66 […]

Tumacácori

Tumacácori National Historical Park in southern Arizona preserves the sites of a handful of Spanish missions and settlements that were part of Spain’s advance into what is now the southwest United States. Named for the O’odham village it was built near, the main site at Tumacácori was preserved as a National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt […]

Old Spanish Trail

Old Spanish National Historic Trail runs through six states, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah. The National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management jointly protect sites of the Old Spanish Trail, a multi-branched trail which joined New Mexico and California via pack mule trains in the mid-1800s. Visitor Rating (write your own […]

Saguaro

Saguaro National Park, Arizona, founded in 1994, protects a piece of the Sonoran Desert, the only place in the world where the Saguaro (pronounced Suh-WAR-oh) cactus grows naturally. The Park is divided in two, east and west, flanking the city of Tucson. Visitor Rating  (write your own review below) ILNP Rating Scenery Uniqueness Wildlife Diversity […]