Last month during our National Park adventure to Shenandoah National Park, we stopped for the day at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. It is very hard to summarize this interesting National Park unit because it is really 4 parks in one! Harpers Ferry is a quaint, historic town in West Virginia. It is also a […]
The countdown is on! In less than 3 weeks my family and I will be embarking on our Pacific Northwest National Park Adventure! And what an adventure it will be! In 14 days we will see glaciers, mountains, volcanoes, beaches, forests, and rainforests! Our vacation will be the first 2 weeks in July and will […]
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 […]
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 […]