Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend and on Monday, the actual Memorial Day, my family visited the Manassas National Battlefield Park. You may have heard the name Manassas but never really knew what the significance was. Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves the history and land surrounding not 1, but 2 battles from the Civil War. […]
This Memorial Day weekend my family visited Shenandoah National Park. Shenandoah National Park is over 200,000 acres of protected land not too far away from Washington, DC. My family and I left shortly after the kids got home from school on friday and drove 2 1/2 hours to Lynchburg, VA to spend the night. On […]
This Memorial Day weekend, my family and I went on our latest National Park adventure! If you recall, we have been planning our family trip since the beginning of the year. A month ago I published our tentative itinerary. We quickly realized, however, we needed to make some tweaks to it. More on that in […]
Each post in this YoParks! series will feature an interview with a National Park ranger or historian. My hope is to spread the word about our amazing National Park system and encourage you to visit a park near you! Today’s YoParks! post features Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Site. 9 Questions with Tarin Erickson, Museum […]
In the last 2 years, my family has taken 7 vacations specifically evolving around visiting National Park units. Our itineraries have one thing in common: they are built to maximize our time visiting the great sites in the National Park Service system! I get a lot of questions around how I plan my family’s National […]
Today is Mother’s Day and to celebrate the kids and I took my wife to the North Carolina Zoo. Living outside of Raleigh, our family is super fortunate to have access to world-class benefits like the North Carolina Zoo which is located in Asheboro, North Carolina—just a short 90 miles away from our home. The […]