Touring America's Parks with Shayne!
National Parks, State Parks & Other Places
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…
A Wilderness of Stone and Water One of the new parks I went to was the Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River located in Big Bend NP. Inthe early years you were able to go rafting along the river which was very popular. Right now the riveris very low that you can’t go rafting anymore….
A Borderland Paradise On March 5, 2022 I went to the Amistad National Recreation Area that is located in Texas. This recreational paradise occupies the US shoreline of the Amistad Reservoir on the nations southern borders.Visitors can go swimming, boating and fishing around the area. Right now the lake is really low but people are…
On our way out of Beatty, NV we stopped by a ghost town called Rhyolite. It is a very cute little town. It use to be a mining town in Nevada.There were still some of the building still standing that you can see along the road. There was a depot, bank, store, school and a…
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…
In October 2022, I went to Chaco Culture National Historical Park with my dad and stepmom. This park has different kind of ruins. We went to a couple of them. This first one is a big area where people lived. You could walk through the ruins. It also was five stories high at one time….
While I was in New Mexico with my dad we walked along the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. This part of the trail was located at the Aztec Ruins NM. I did get a stamp for this trail. Old Spanish National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)