national parks

2023 - Missisippi, Colorado, Missouri and Indiana | All Travel | Indiana | Indiana Sand Dunes (IN) | National Parks | United States

One Perfect Day in Indiana Dunes National Park
ByNadya B March 23, 2024May 26, 2025

[Gary/Porter, IN, Sep 12, 2023] Indiana Dunes National Park is one of the youngest. It got upgraded from a National Lakeshore in 2019 to become the nation’s 61st national park. It runs for about 20 miles along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, in northwestern Indiana. The closest big city is Chicago, IL. If you’re…

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2023 - Missisippi, Colorado, Missouri and Indiana | All Travel | Gateway Arch (MO) | Missouri | National Parks | United States

Gateway Arch
ByNadya B March 9, 2024August 11, 2026

[St Louis, MO, Sep 9, 2023] And just like that, the Colorado part of this giant trip was over. After our very busy day finishing up Mesa Verde, driving to Great Sand Dunes and then to Colorado Springs, we spent a much-needed low-key day at my friend May’s. We went to the Garden of the…

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2023 - Missisippi, Colorado, Missouri and Indiana | All Travel | Colorado | Great Sand Dunes (CO) | Mesa Verde (CO) | National Parks | United States

Square Tower House and Great Sand Dunes
ByNadya B March 2, 2024July 5, 2024

[Mesa Verde National Park & Great Sand Dunes National Park, Sep 7 ,2023] I had really meant for Thursday to just be a travel day, but the cliff dwelling tour schedule at Mesa Verde had once again thrown a little wrench in my plans. There was one more cliff dwelling on the tour schedule, Square…

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2023 - Missisippi, Colorado, Missouri and Indiana | All Travel | Colorado | Mesa Verde (CO) | National Parks | United States

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwelling Tours
ByNadya B February 17, 2024February 9, 2024

[Mesa Verde National Park, Sep 5, 2023] People love to hate Gateway Arch National Park because it’s a man-made structure. But they forget several other parks preserve man-made structures, such as Dry Tortugas and Mesa Verde. For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of…

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2023 - Missisippi, Colorado, Missouri and Indiana | All Travel | Colorado | National Parks | Rocky Mountain (CO) | United States

The Highest Visitor Center in the NPS
ByNadya B February 3, 2024February 5, 2024

[Rocky Mountain NP, Sep 3, 2023] The morning started out back at the newlyweds’ cabin for a wedding brunch. It was nice to see everyone in a more casual setting and with no sign of the rain from the night before. In the afternoon, I couldn’t resist returning to Rocky Mountain National Park, which I…

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