Category Archives for National Parks

Top Five Overnight Hikes in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the United States, and rightfully so. The beautiful mountains, pristine rivers, herds of wild buffalo, blazing hot springs and Geysers and so much more make this place a truly one of a kind environment. It can be frustrating, however, to head to Yellowstone […]

Top 7 Day Hikes in Washington State

Rainforests and Open Meadows Washington State isn’t often considered to be one of the most ecologically diverse states of our country. Nestled into the top northwestern corner of the United States, it often gets passed up on for other supposedly more exotic locations for hiking. The difference between eastern and western Washington are so striking, […]

Seven Amazing Things to See in the Smoky Mountains

Let´s face it: not everyone is built for enduring the elements during a five day, strenuous backpacking trip up some 14,000 foot mountain. That´s what makes the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee so great. Even a few steps off the road and you´ll feel like you´re enveloped in a beautiful, pristine wilderness. Flickr/samkennedy1 Watch the Sunset […]

Best National Parks to Visit in South Africa [Guide to National Parks]

How Complete Is this guide? South Africa has a lot of amazing national parks and places to visit. Although we try our best, its difficult to cover every single detail about these parks. In fact, you can likely write books about many of these places. It is far from complete and the guide is still […]

Yosemite National Park: Seven Amazing Things to See

The Unending Beauty of Yosemite National Park Imagine visiting a national park where over 95% of the close to 750,000 acres were designated as pure wilderness. Now imagine the fact that the vast majority of the four million people each year who visit only spend their time in the seven square miles that make up […]

The Ultimate Bird Checklist for Yosemite

With an extreme elevation of 2,000 to more than 13,000 feet, Yosemite provides diverse habitat for over hundreds of species of birds. Below are some of the birds that can be found in Yosemite National Park. Stellar’s Jay flickr/56509109@N04 Also known as mountain blue birds, Stellar’s Jays are one of the common birds at Yosemite. […]

Things To Do In Yosemite National Park [All Seasons!]

Yosemite National Park is a national treasure located within California’s beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. Whether it’s the ancient, tall Sequoia trees or the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite offers a little bit of everything for the adventurous traveler who wants to explore a special part of the American West. The most […]

Places to Stay Yosemite

We orginally posted this on our Yosemite guide, however we felt it was fairly incomplete. To be honest and frank, we didn’t take the time to list the many places to stay and felt the “places to stay” would be better suited to this page. If you would like your hotel or “place to […]

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