With over 400 miles of surveyed passages, Mammoth Cave National Park is famous as the longest known cave system in the world. We not only ventured into the cave on two occasions while visiting, but also had the opportunity to complete hikes on both sides of the Green River.
Hot Springs National Park, in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, has the distinction of being America’s smallest national park at just 5,500 acres. Its protected status (in 1832) predates Yellowstone, commonly considered to be the world’s first national park.
This week’s Tuesday Quiz comes from Fact Monster. The ten questions will test your national parks knowledge from Hawaii to Maine.
We were in the state of Texas for 17 days, and most of our time was spent in one place: Big Bend National Park. Big Bend, established in 1944, is the 15th largest national park by area. We spent six days exploring its desert, mountain, and river ecosystems.
This week’s quiz is a tough one – you must answer a series of 15 questions about the United States in four minutes. One wrong answer ends the quiz.
Over 200 million years ago, the Guadalupe Mountains were a marine reef under a tropical sea. These mountains include Guadalupe Peak, which at 8,751 feet tall is the “top” or highest point in Texas. We spent five days exploring this remote place.
We are arriving in Hot Springs National Park, and here’s another U.S. National Parks quiz to determine how well you know our parks.
Carlsbad Caverns, located in the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains, is the first of three “cave” national parks we plan to visit on our TTP NPS journey (the other two parks are Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and Wind Cave in South Dakota).
When we researched national parks to include on our Trekking the Planet NPS journey, we were surprised to discover sand dunes in the middle of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. But little did we know that we would not only be seeing sand dunes, but experiencing snow.
We are now in Big Bend National Park, viewing the Rio Grande River from several places throughout the park. This week’s Tuesday Quiz is all about the Rio Grande and other rivers of the United States.
Here are some panoramic photos that we took of the first five parks we visited. Click on any of the pictures for a larger view. Enjoy!
Arches National Park is home to over 2,000 arches etched in Entrada sandstone. It has the world’s highest density of natural stone arches. We had been to Arches when our daughters were 2 and 5. Because of their ages, we didn’t hike much, so our goal this time was to do just that.
