Touring America's Parks with Shayne!
National Parks, State Parks & Other Places
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park On 1/23/2022, We went to Death Valley NP. We stopped by the Furnace Creek VC for the stamps. We stopped at a area where they mined for Harmony Borak. There is also a place where they have a mine and a cart that mule use to pull with all…
Choose Your Own Desert Adventure Mojave is a big park. We got there later in the day so we couldn’t get to the other visitor center. We did stop by Kelso Depot that is a visitor center but it was closed. They are remodeling it. Kelso use to be a train station in early years…
On this trip we had to change somethings around. When the weather got bad we decided to stay in Palm Springs for the night.I have always wanted to go to Palm Springs. In the parts that we saw were pretty cool. We first stopped at a place to eat called Ocean. It was good seafood….
Where Two Deserts Meet In Jan. 2022, me and my mom took a drive to see Joshua Tree National Park. Every time we would drive to Oxnard, CA, we drove by this park every trip and we never stopped until 2022. You can reach it by driving along Interstate 10. We went the the Cottonwood…
Hilltop Living On 4/20/2018, me and my mom went to see Tuzigoot National Monument. When they first found the spot after the settles left it was a bunch of rocks.The rangers put it back together. It use to have up to a 100 rooms. There was some great views from the ruins. Tuzigoot National Monument…
On 11/3/2007, me and my mom decided to go to the Grand Canyon NP. My mother won a train ride to the canyon. We stayed in Flagstaff, AZ for the weekend but drove to Williams, AZ to catch the train. The train was fun. There was a person talking about the canyon and there was…
This was the first time seeing the Grand Canyon for me. My parents and I were moving to Phoenix, AZ from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. I was about three years old. Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
On 6/27/2017, me and my mom went on a tour to Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument in Birmingham, Alabama. There are seven stops for this park. The ones that we went to were Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Kelly Ingram Park. The first stop that we went to was 16th Street…
On 1/14/2023 – I meet up with a group of other National Park Travelers. I am in a online club that plans meet-ups at different parks around the country. Robbie (one of the members) planed this meet-up to happen at Saguaro National Park. Me and my group meet at the East Visitor Center. We went…
I put up the last two trips that I took for this year of 2022. Hope to have new trips to come with new parks to see in 2023. Keep looking out.