Colonial National Historical Park is really two separate parks which commemorate historic areas of early US history. Jamestown National Historic Site protects he location of the first permanent settlement in America while Yorktown Battlefield protects the location of the last major military action of the American Revolution. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP […]
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Shenandoah
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, protects a long, narrow strip of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Unlike most parks, Shenandoah’s land was mostly settled, and a significant portion of it was deforested before the state of Virginia began to piece the park together. The park was established in December 1935, and since then, most of the forest […]
Manassas
Manassas NBP, established in 1940, protects the site of two major Civil War battles near Washington D.C. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I visited Manassas NBP one evening in June while on a business trip to the D.C. area. Our Weather. Warm (low 80s) with isolated […]
Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, the first “National Seashore,” protects the beaches, dunes, wetlands and wildlife that comprise three major islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I took a brief driving excursion into Cape Hatteras after visiting the nearby Wright […]
Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina, commemorates the location of man’s first flight in a heavier-than-air machine by Orville and Wilbur Wright in December 1903. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I visited Wright Brothers NMem, North Carolina, in April via a 1/2 day driving excursion while […]
Rocky Mountain
Declared a National Park in 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is home to hundreds of peaks more than 10,000 feet tall including the 14,255 ft Longs Peak, one of Colorado’s tallest. More than that, the boundaries of Rocky Mountain NP encompass an entire set of mountain ecosystems and the wildlife which make them unique. […]
Minute Man
Minute Man National Historical Park, Massachusetts, protects the historic ground near Lexington and Concord, MA where the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I visited Minute Man NHP while on a business trip to Boston, MA in […]
Yosemite
Yosemite, California, is the king of all National Parks. Although it was declared a National Park October 1st, 1890, after Yellowstone and Sequoia, Yosemite is the Park that started it all. It was here, amidst the spectacular beauty of “the valley” that John Muir convinced the US government to set aside some of its most […]
Redwood
Redwood National Park, California, was actually a latecomer to this area. Founded October 2nd, 1968, it joined three California State Parks in protecting some key groves of redwood trees, the tallest in the world, that grow only along a narrow strip of the California and Oregon coasts. Today, the area is jointly managed by the […]
Crater Lake
Crater Lake, Oregon, was the fifth National Park, established May 22nd, 1902 after 17 years of lobbying by a man named William Steel. The lake was formed thousands of years ago after the eruption and collapse of Mount Mazama in the Cascade Range. The lake is the deepest in the US (about 1,940 feet) and […]
Big Cypress
Big Cypress National Preserve, on the northern border of Everglades National Park in Florida, is home to several thousand acres of grasslands, waterways and cypress forests. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. We visited Big Cypress during May as we were driving back from a visit to […]
Big Bend
Big Bend National Park, Texas, protects the diverse ecology of the area inside the “Big Bend” in the Rio Grande, the border between the US and Mexico.Big Bend, while technically situated in a desert area, is home to more than 400 species of birds and contains several different climate zones ranging from the Chihuahuan desert […]