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Pinnacles National Park

Published on June 12, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Pinnacles National Park June 12, 2018 East Visitor Center The Pinnacles National Park Visitor Center is located in eastern portion of the park on Route 146, right next to the campground in the campground store. You will find park information, exhibits, rangers, and picnic tables available here. Bear Gulch Nature Center […]

Petrified Forest National Park

Published on May 4, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Petrified Forest National Park May 4, 2018 Giant Log Trail This .4-mile loop trail begins behind Rainbow Forest Museum, where there’s a trail guide available. The trail features some of Petrified Forest’s largest and most colorful logs, including “Old Faithful,” which is at the top of the trail and almost 10 feet […]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Published on April 19, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Great Smoky Mountains National Park April 19, 2018 The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee-North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains, and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province. The range is sometimes called the Smoky or Smokey Mountains, and […]

Congaree National Park

Published on April 9, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Congaree National Park April 09, 2018 Wet, wild, and awe-inspiring, Congaree National Park preserves 22,200 acres of southern bottomland forest just outside of Columbia, South Carolina – the largest tract of old-growth hardwoods in North America. Located in the floodplain of the Congaree and Wateree rivers, the park is known for its outsized […]

Big Bend National Park

Published on March 5, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Big Bend National Park Monday, 03/05/2018 Big Bend National Park is in a remote southern part of Texas where the road ends at the Rio Grande River the border between the United States and Mexico. Many of the park’s famous expansive vistas mix scenes belonging to moth nations. One of the parks best-known […]

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Published on March 3, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Carlsbad Caverns National Park Saturday, 03/03/18 Our encounter with Carlsbad Caverns National Park began in the Chihuahuan Desert of the Guadalupe Mountains. Away from the sunlight, the flowering cactus, songs of the desert birds and the howling of the coyotes lies the underground world of Carlsbad Cavern. It is a realm of huge subterranean […]

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Published on March 3, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Guadalupe Mountains National Park Saturday, 03/03/2018 The Guadalupe Mountains are among the best examples of a marine fossil reef. Geologists come from around the world to marvel at this extra-ordinary phenomenon that formed 260 – 270 million years ago. During that time a tropical ocean covered portions of what is nor Texas and New […]

Saguaro National Park

Published on March 1, 2018 | in National Park By Christopher Maitland |

Saguaro National Park Wednesday, 03/01/2018 On the outskirts of Tucson a small part of the Sonoran Desert is preserved as the Saguaro National Park. The Saguaro is a tree-like cactus, which can grow to be over 40 feet tall. Saguaros grow very slowly at first, about an inch a year for the […]