During our month in Florida City, we had two National Parks on either side of us, both short driving distances away. To the west is Everglades National Park and to the east is Biscayne National Park.
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We spent a week at the Smokemont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains during October 2022 to watch the leaves change, and nature did not disappoint!
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Did you know there is a national park with great beaches? While visiting Indiana Dunes National Park, we decided to 1) Hike Cowles Bog Trail, 2) Attend a Ranger talk at the Chellberg Farmhouse, and 3) Relax and enjoy the sunshine at West Beach.
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Voyageurs National Park is unique in that most of its 218,000 acres and 655 miles of shorelines are waterways and forests only accessible by boat.
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We visited both the South and North Units of the park which are 68 miles apart, and both had amazing views! We tried to do a hike but since the park wasn’t officially open yet (May 2nd, 2002) we encountered serious obstacles on the trail and had to bail once we got to the paved park road.
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It’s called the Badlands because that’s what the Lakota and early French trappers both called it due to how difficult the terrain is to travel through. Not too far from the park was the Minuteman Delta-09 missile silo. It is crazy to think that just in this one area of South Dakota there are over a thousand silos just like it.
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South Dakota was our 20th state! We stayed one night at the Elk Mountain Campground in the park near the visitor center. The first thing I did was pull out our mat and take a nap since the weather was perfect and all you could hear was the wind blowing in the surrounding grasslands.
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Overnight we were surprised to wake up and find a snow storm rolled in and covered the dunes with 2-3” of snow so the entire landscape was now white. We went back and actually hiked the dunes proper from the main Dunes parking lot near the visitor center.
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Mesa Verde National Park includes over 4,500 archeological sites with only 600 of those being the cliff dwellings that the park is famous for. It was very fascinating to learn about the Ancestral Pueblo people, and their homes, and see the changes in their architecture over long periods of time.
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