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another NEW national park bucket list update

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Happy Tuesday!

I’m here (again) to update my national parks bucket list. It seems like I’ve only been posting about this bucket list lately! Oh well, I’ll try to post about other NEW stuff soon. We visited Great Basin National Park recently. Who knew we’d be hiking through snow in June!?! Not a ton of snow, but still…

I loved hiking to these alpine lakes, enjoying the tree art, and touring Lehman Caves.

I hope you all have a terrific day and do or learn something NEW today!

LIST OF US NATIONAL PARKS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (63 total)

  • Acadia National Park {done}
  • Arches National Park {done}
  • Badlands National Park
  • Big Bend National Park
  • Biscayne National Park {done}
  • Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park {done}
  • Bryce Canyon National Park {done}
  • Canyonlands National Park {done}
  • Capitol Reef National Park {done}
  • Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  • Channel Islands National Park
  • Congaree National Park
  • Crater Lake National Park
  • Cuyahoga Valley National Park
  • Death Valley National Park {done}
  • Denali National Park and Preserve
  • Dry Tortugas National Park
  • Everglades National Park {done}
  • Gates of the Arctic National Park
  • Gateway Arch National Park 
  • Glacier National Park
  • Glacier Bay National Park
  • Grand Canyon National Park {done}
  • Grand Teton National Park {done}
  • Great Basin National Park {done}
  • Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park {done}
  • Guadalupe Mountains National Park
  • Haleakala National Park
  • Hawaii Volcanoes National Park {done}
  • Hot Springs National Park
  • Indiana Dunes National Park
  • Isle Royale National Park
  • Joshua Tree National Park {done}
  • Katmai National Park and Preserve
  • Kenai Fjords National Park
  • Kings Canyon National Park {done}
  • Kobuk Valley National Park
  • Lake Clark National Park
  • Lassen Volcanic National Park {done}
  • Mammoth Cave National Park
  • Mesa Verde National Park {done}
  • Mount Rainier National Park
  • National Park of American Samoa
  • New River Gorge National Park 
  • North Cascades National Park
  • Olympic National Park
  • Petrified Forest National Park
  • Pinnacles National Park
  • Redwood National Park {done}
  • Rocky Mountain National Park {done}
  • Saguaro National Park {done}
  • Sequoia National Park {done}
  • Shenandoah National Park
  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park
  • Virgin Islands National Park
  • Voyageurs National Park
  • White Sands National Park 
  • Wind Cave National Park
  • Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
  • Yellowstone National Park {done}
  • Yosemite National Park {done}
  • Zion National Park {done}

NEW / unique places i gotta go see

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Happy Monday!

I’ve recently learned of some NEW places to visit. Some of these places are relatively close to me, (in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah), but I hadn’t even heard of them until recently, and now I gotta go see them.

I saw the above wedding photo and had to ask the photographer where the location was: Cathedral Gorge State Park in Nevada.

Then, I had a co-worker say he took his family hiking at Paul Bunyans Woodpile, so I had to look it up. Such interesting volcanic rock formations! It is in Juab County, Utah.

I have heard of Great Basin National Park, but since it would probably be on our way to Cathedral Gorge, we’d better stop in! It looks pretty cool.

And lastly, for this trip, although I’ve already visited Lehman’s Cave, it was a very long time ago, so we’ll have to stop in again. I think it is in the vicinity of Great Basin National Park.

I like to keep track of my “Want-to-go-see-stuff” for trips on Google’s My Maps and add things to see in the area as I find out about them. So much traveling to do, so little time! But when I have the time, I’ll be organized and can just get up and GO!

Have a great day! Do or learn something NEW!

photo credits:

1st photo: whiteemberstudios Instagram; 2nd and 3rd: geology.utah.gov, 4th: Sunset Magazine.com, 5th: https://lachnietblog.wordpress.com/