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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 […]

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 […]

Guadalupe Mountains

Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, was founded in 1972 to preserve the surprisingly diverse wilderness of the southern Guadalupe Mountains, a range created from an enormous fossilized reef rising up from the Chihuahuan Desert. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating Scenery Uniqueness Wildlife Diversity ILNP Park Review In a Word. “Unexpected” “He […]

Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, which lays across the mountainous border between Tennessee and North Carolina, was established in 1934 to protect some of the densest “old-growth” deciduous forest in the world. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating Scenery Uniqueness Wildlife Diversity ILNP Park Review In a Word. “Refreshing” “How lovely […]