Touring America's Parks with Shayne!
National Parks, State Parks & Other Places
While I was in Missouri in summer of 2022, I went to a couple of places that were part of Route 66. We stopped by and looked at the Gateway Arch. You can get a stamp there for the Route 66. And also Ted Drewes was also located on Route 66. Very good Frozen Custard…
On our last night in St. Louis, Missouri we went to Ted Drewes for Frozen Custard. It was a busy place to be even in the rain. We had two different kinds of custard. My mother did a plain vanilla custard and I had a caramel flavor custard. They were really good. This a place…
While we were in Saint Charles in Missouri this summer 2022. We walked along the Katy Trail. This park walk built on a Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad that is 240 miles long and runs between Clinton and Machens. There are 26 trail heads and four restored railroad depots along the trail. Section of the trail between Cooper…
While I was at the Gateway Arch I got this stamp for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The Old Courthouse is important for the National Unground Railroad Network to Freedom. At this courthouse there was a lot of legal challenges for the slaves. The masters use to auction the slaves of on the…
On our last day of being in Missouri we drove to a little town called Saint Charles. In the town there is a museum called the Lewis & Clark Boat House and Museum. This place shows a great display of all the things that Lewis and Clark did on the trail. In this town Lewis…
While we were at the Gateway Arch I got a stamp for the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail. In this area is where Lewis & Clark went down the Mississippi River on their travels. Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)
While we were in Missouri and seeing the Gateway Arch National Park. Our last activities for that day was taking a riverboat cruise along the Mississippi River. There is a walkway that you take to get to the river. At the dock they had a little shop and a bar for a drink before going…
This summer of 2022 I got to see the Gateway Arch National Park for the third time. The last time I was there was the summer of 2015 and it was called Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. The Park turned to a National Park in 2018. This trip was different experience. We got to do three…
Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park cam part of the parks in 2020 to preserve the history of the oldest European settlement in Missouri. Ste. Genevieve is located in the Mid-Mississippi River Valley that was established by 1750. There are three places that you can tour at the park. They only showed us the two buildings,…
A Place Called Home Me and my mom visited the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant was a commanding general of the US Army during the Civil War. Also he was the 18th president of the United States. He championed civil rights for African Americans. He was from…