Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, created in 1996, is one of the last remaining 4% of the 140 million acres of prairie which once covered 1/3 of North America. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I visited Tallgrass Prairie NPres in early October as a detour off of […]
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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 […]
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe National Historic Trail runs through five states, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The route was first scouted in 1792 and opened for trade in 1821. It crossed the vast plains to connect trade between the western U.S. settlements in Missouri and Santa Fe, the northern trade hub of Mexico at […]