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National Parks

Cumberland Island: Camping in Canopied Sites with Wild Horses

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For our wedding anniversary this year, we decided to keep it simple. Instead of taking one of our typical months-long road trips, we just drove an hour and a half north into Georgia to visit a little patch of Google Maps greenery that we’ve had…

  • Post published:November 18, 2022
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Our 65-Day Canadian National Parks Road Trip (& Its Cost)

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Last year, we planned to go to as many Canadian National Parks as possible on a summer road trip — and failed miserably. Strict COVID testing requirements combined with an overwhelmed healthcare system at the Montana-Alberta border stopped us dead in our tracks, diverting most…

  • Post published:August 13, 2022
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New River Gorge National Park: Plan Your West Virginia Trip

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Driving the highways in West Virginia, you don’t really notice just how high up you are in the Appalachian Mountains until you cross a bridge and can’t see all the way down. That’s when you realize its nickname — the Mountain State — makes a…

  • Post published:July 18, 2021
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How Two Twenty-Somethings Visited Every National Park

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You know the feeling when your alarm goes off and you dread what’s coming next? Whatever your responsibilities are today, you know the feeling. You’ve felt it before an exam, before a review at the office, maybe even every day before you go into work.…

  • Post published:March 5, 2020
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Definitive List of National Parks in the US, Ranked Best to Worst

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We spent most of 2019 living out of a tiny camper van in order to visit and photograph every National Park in the United States before turning 30. As we traveled, we evaluated each park against all the previous ones, forming this master list one…

  • Post published:February 11, 2020
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White Sands: New Mexico’s Newest National Park

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When we achieved our goal to visit every National Park in the United States in 2019, there were 61 of them. But just last month, long after we’d already arrived back home, a 62nd was added to the list. This would have irked us a…

  • Post published:January 12, 2020
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 6: There’s No Place Like Home

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We were rounding the third base of our trip as we made our way through Canada to Maine, and we were excited to visit the eastern part of the country we left behind six months before. Our plan seemed perfect -- we had plenty of…

  • Post published:December 9, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 5: Seeking Alaska

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I was both nervous and excited as we packed ourselves into the smallest plane I’d ever seen. It would be the first of many flights we’d have to take to visit the eight National Parks in Alaska. But we felt confident that if we could…

  • Post published:October 21, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 4: The Allure of the Pacific Northwest

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The Pacific Northwest is one of the most captivating parts of the country, the way it’s shrouded and shaped by perpetual fog, rainfall, and aspiration. We came here expecting to be dazzled, and it did not disappoint. It felt like returning home -- both because…

  • Post published:September 14, 2019
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You Spent How Much?! Our Cost To See Every National Park (And How We Paid For It)

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Daydreaming about a grand adventure can be enjoyable on its own, but the real fun comes when you actually leave home. It’s much easier to turn dreams into reality when you have a realistic picture of what it will cost, and while it may be…

  • Post published:August 15, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 3: Finding Solace on Newly Thawed Land

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Somehow, winter was still going strong, but so was our spirit. We were two months into our vacation, and we weren't even halfway through the parks yet. But from what we'd seen so far — underground caverns, raging oceans, curious trees, and sculpted rockface —…

  • Post published:August 10, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 2: What to Do When It’s Freezing Outside

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When we came back from our tropical trip to the National Parks in Hawai'i and American Samoa, we came face to face with a bitter winter. The inescapable cold was something we -- born and bred Floridians -- were unfamiliar with and not at all…

  • Post published:June 16, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 1: Traveling During the Government Shutdown

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We left Florida bright eyed and ready for our latest adventure — visiting every US National Park on a seven-month, cross-country road trip. The route we planned would take us west first along the southern border through Texas to California, avoiding the cold, January weather.…

  • Post published:May 26, 2019
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