The United States of America; Visit its National Parks
Written: May 05 '09 (Updated May 05 '09)
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Pros: Visiting US parks and sites has become a lifetime quest of mine. It's been rewarding.
Cons: The US is one big country when trying to visit them all the parks.
The Bottom Line: Be sure to visit the US National Parks System. There's nothing else like it in the world!!
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One of it's great assets is its National Park System that includes nearly 400 sites. Some explore nature and others history. Included are many recreational areas too.
I have lived in the United States all my life. I feel blessed to be a citizen and take advantage of its incredible natural wonders and study the history that is within the borders of many of the NPS sites.
When I was first married my wife and I jumped into my new Plymouth Duster and drove cross country. It was a wonderful way to explore our nations great gifts. We also learned more about each other too.
We were lucky to visit the National Parks and Sites of Mounds, Pipestone, Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave, Jewel Cave, Devil's Tower, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Crater lake, Redwoods, Death Valley (the Duster didn't have an AC) Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain and perhaps others that first trip. We mostly camped using a small two man tent when staying overnight but when we would stay a couple-a-few days, I erected my "circus tent". It was a huge canvas thing that did us well.
We made another cross country trip in the early 1990s and visited new and exciting places. About ten years ago we took a flight out to Vegas and after doing the town we went to the north rim of Grand Canyo and stayed at Bryce Canyon and then Zion National Park. The parks were even more fun than Vegas!
On trips on the east coast we have visited the Great Smokey Mountains, the Blue Ridge Mountains and way up north and perhaps my favorite place in all the United States, Acadia National Park.
I happen to live in New York that has many sites and recreation areas within forty minutes from my home.Washington DC has many as do Boston and Philadelphia. These four areas are loaded with Sites and monuments dedicated to American History,
The Parks system has sites in every state...except one. Do you know which? Ask if you would like to know which.
Florida has a couple of favorites with the Everglades and two snorkeling places, Biscayne Underwater National Park and Dry Tortuga a fort in the middle of nowhere that's a few hour high speed boat-ride off Key West.
My wife and I have been fortunate enough to visit US National Parks in Puerto Rico, St John's, St Thomas and St Croix.
Even with all the parks listed and eluded to, we made it to more. Just around New Orleans alone we visited another three or four. Alas, I have not yet discovered the National Parks of Alaska and Hawaii.
One feature about the system is that each park has it's own ink stamps and changes with the date. I have a book that has over a hundred stamps from some of the most wonderful areas of the United States and perhaps the world. I collect the stamps every time I visit a new site. The stamps are genrally at the Visitors Center of each park. Collecting them is a fun hobby.
That's it my friends. after reading the first and only review of the United States I had to speak my piece. For an excellent review of the US from the perspective of a person from another country and who happens to be a long-time and well-experienced US traveler check out the following Most Helpful review...
http://www.epinions.com/review/United_States/content_469093879428
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