Plan your Summer Adventures

The National Park Service has created a useful and very informative site to help you plan out your “Summer National Park Adventure.”  My wife and I have several National park visits planned for the upcoming months. We hope to visit sites in the National Capital Region as well as a few other regions.  Check out the new site and start planning your next trip at http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/plan_your_visit/index.htm.  Don’t forget your passport book!… Continue reading

LA Times – Hidden gems: America’s 20 least-visited National Monuments

The Los Angeles Times has a great list of the 20 least visited National Monuments.

Here is the list:
20. Chiricahua, Arizona (Western) – Visitors in 2009: 60,851
19. Tonto, Arizona (Western) – Visitors in 2009: 60,534
18. Capulin Volcano, New Mexico (Southwest) – Visitors in 2009: 50,935
17. Pipe Spring, Arizona (Western) – Visitors in 2009: 49,433
16. El Morro, New Mexico (Southwest) – Visitors in 2009: 48,245
15. Buck Island Reef, U.S. Virgin Islands (Southeast… Continue reading

Tuskegee Airmen

Our second stop on our 2-part tour (Tuskegee Institute being the first stop) was the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site.  The site is temporarily being housed in a mobile building, while it is undergoing a renovation that should be completed by the end of 2011.  We also had the slight misfortune of visiting when only one ranger was there, so we were not able to tour the hanger.  We explored the grounds, watched the video (which hopefully will be updated as part of the renovation) and browsed the literature.… Continue reading

Tuskegee Institute

We pulled out our passport book and Southeast Region Companion Guide Saturday night to decide which park(s) we would venture off to next.  We decided to take a day trip to Alabama and visit Tuskegee Institute and Tuskegee Airmen.  We arrived early and began our adventure at the Tuskegee Institute.  My wife and I were both surprised at how spread out the University was.  The actual museum is a little tough to find; we had to stop and ask for directions once we were on the campus.  While the … Continue reading