Two full weekends and the work-week in between. That is how long we stuck around the Astoria area, specifically Fort Stevens State Park. Fort Stevens was our base camp to explore the area, and explore we did. Our first destination was to Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, my 71st...
Home this week has been the Minni Peterson Campground, right down the road from the Hoh Rainforest portion of the National Park. Not only is it free camping, it is quiet and mostly unused at this time of the year. A great spot to hop into the National Park for...
A planned getaway into Hurricane Ridge, a part of Olympic National Park, resulted in a frustrating drive behind a 25 MPH (or less) driving couple that refuse to use both their mirrors or any turnouts. I was finally able to pass them in the last few miles remaining of the...
Who wouldn’t take the opportunity to kayak in any of our National Parks? Kerri and I jumped at the opportunity the same day we arrived in the Port Angeles. We drove to Lake Crescent, part of Olympic National Park, and set out for what was to be a paddle under...
No way were we going to take the trailer down 60 miles of rutted and washboard dirt road, so instead we found a nice free campground right outside of Chitina to call home base. From here we took the truck into the National Park to visit McCarthy and Kennecott. It...
The original plan was to stay a whole week in Seward, but after talking with others that have spent time there and work over the Internet, we decided to stay undecided. See, when a cruise ship comes into port – and they do daily in Seward – the thousands of...
Visiting Denali is not like the other National Parks I have been too. Most, if not all, other parks have roads that bring you to the historic sights or viewpoints, Denali is different. There is a single 90-mile road, but only the first 15 miles are accessible by the average...
On our last day in the Jasper area, and a work day at that, we took the short 30-minute drive to see Athabasca Falls. A well paved walkway allowed us to see the falls from all angles including from below the gorge itself. Standing at the top I could not...
Coming into Jasper National Park all Kerri could talk about was Maligne Lake. She was told by a ex-local that this was *the* lake to see, and she believed that person. We scanned it from satellite view ahead of time and the one thing that stuck in my mind was...
With less than ideal weather in the air, Kerri and I chose to take on a simple hike on a trail. Here we would not have to fight tourist traffic (as much) while checking off one of the places we wanted to see while here in Jasper. It was not...
