Touring America's Parks with Shayne!
National Parks, State Parks & Other Places
On July 29, 2020, I went to the Grand Canyon for my third time. It was a nice and not crowded. This was during the COVID time so people weren’t out. Me and my mom stayed at a Bed & Breakfast called Trapper’s Rendezvous in Williams, AZ. It was very cute and unique to stay…
In the summer of 1995 I went on a graduation cruise with my mother. We went to a place in Mexico and also Catalina Island. Somebody told me that in these pictures that I went by the Channel Islands on a sea day. We went around them. Channel Islands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)…
In August of 2018, I meet up with dad and we went to Carlsbad Caverns National Park located in New Mexico. There is a little town close to the park. We stayed at the hotel there. You go to the visitor center to get you tickets and you take a elevator down to the caves….
On 10/1/2023, me and my family went to Acadia National Park. It was so beautiful to see all the green and also all the mixed colors too. Also got to see the water. Here are some pictures of us with the signs. 1st pic is me in front of the National Park sign. 2nd pic…
Last week I went to a ranger talk at the National Park Store. I learned a lot of new things about the National Park Service. One of things I learned was the Mackinac Island National Park was the second National Park of the National Park Service. I never heard of this place before but there…
Splendid Isolation: Big Bend Here is me in front of the Big Bend sign. For first stop in Big Bend beside the visitor center we went to Santa Elena Canyon. We had our lunchand walked around. This is a pretty little place to hang around. This is part of the river. There is aarea where…
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…
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…
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)