This week we will visit our tenth national park of our journey! Our Tuesday Quiz tests your map knowledge of the U.S. National Parks. You will have four minutes to correctly identify the location of 24 of the 59 U.S. National Parks.
The Colorado River is 1,450 miles long and flows through five states. The Green River is a Colorado River tributary. Beginning in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains, it meets the Colorado in Canyonlands National Park. We spent three days exploring the park and hiking to the confluence of these two rivers.
During our Trekking the Planet NPS journey, we will be traveling through over 30 states! How well do you know what state is adjacent to others in the United States?
Although petrified wood can be found in all 50 U.S. States, Petrified Forest National Park has some of the highest concentrations in the world. We spent two days exploring this park as well as taking two overnight backpacking trips in the north and south wilderness areas.
There are four deserts in North America: the Mojave, Great Basin, Chihuahuan and Sonoran. The Sonoran Desert is the most complex and diverse of its counterparts, with its physical features ranging from mountain ranges to arid plains to grassy plateaus to lava flows. It also contains a cactus found nowhere else: the saguaro.
This quiz will test your knowledge of the U.S. National Parks in pictures. You will have six minutes to correctly identify 20 parks.
For the first park on our NPS journey we chose a familiar place: Joshua Tree National Park, which is only a one hour drive from our home in Palm Desert, CA. The park is unique in that it features plants and wildlife from two deserts: the Mojave and Colorado.
As we begin our travels to 27 U.S. National Parks, this week’s quiz challenges you to identify a national park based on its location on a map. How many can you accurately find?
If you have been following us for any length of time, you know that we are planners. But what made things more challenging this time was that we need to concurrently sort out the logistics for our NPS trip as well as our return to the Pacific Crest Trail.
This week’s Tuesday Quiz will test your knowledge of America’s most popular national parks. Can you fill in the ten most visited park names in the time alloted?
Camping is a main component of our U.S. National Parks journey, as we travel to 27 parks over four-and-a-half months. In fact, we plan to camp over 100 nights while driving round the United States. We decided to simply convert our 4Runner into a camper van.
Our next journey, beginning in March 2017, will take us to 27 of the U.S. National Parks, over a 4 1/2 month period! Our goal in visiting 27 National Parks this year, similar to our other journeys, is to focus on their cultural and natural significance.
