Hard to believe we’ve been home almost a month already from our week in Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks. As many of you predicted in your Facebook and blog post comments, our first trip to Arizona and Utah was spectacular. The scenery is unlike any of the other national parks we’ve visited and it…
Every year on May 11th we celebrate two big birthdays. We think it’s no coincidence that Montana’s Glacier National Park and I (Amy) share the same birthday. Although there’s more than 70 years between the two of us, there is a special place in our heart for Glacier. It’s the first national park we visited and…
In 2017, Acadia National Park was the 7th most visited national park in the entire National Park Service. More than 3.5 million visitors travel to coastal Maine to experience everything the park has to offer. At just under 50,000 acres, Acadia National Park is also one of the smaller national parks. With lots of visitors…
In honor of National Park Week, Park Chasers is launching a new series of guest posts called “Park Chaser Profiles.” Each Q & A interview features the story of a national park traveler. Whether you are visiting your first park or your 400th, we hope the travel tips and shared experience helps inspire your next…
Did you know we’re one week away from the next fee-free entrance day in the National Park Service? That’s right. Everyone can visit a national park for free on April 21 – the first day of National Park Week! Fee free dates are a historic tradition, allowing all Americans to reach our protected spaces and…
This month we’re heading out for an 8 day, 7 night Grand Canyon and Zion National Park road trip. We’ve planned this trip for almost 18 months, but we’ve dreamed about seeing Grand Canyon and Zion for a lot longer than that! Today we’re sharing our planned route and some of the stops we have planned….
The National Park Service announced their 2017 Visitor Use Statistics earlier this month. This includes the Top 10 Most Visited National Parks in the United States. For several years, Parkchasers.com has compiled a quick list of these parks and the number of visitors to each site. Some highlights of this year’s list: The overall number…
Last year American’s left 662 million vacation days go unused. (Seriously. Visit Project: Time Off to see how overworked our country is!) If you followed our posts from last year you know we were definitely NOT in this group. Every ounce of vacation time we have was spent #parkchasing on the road, in a plane,…
“You went camping in Denali National Park?” Yes. We did. And no. We did not get eaten by a bear. That pretty much sums up the start of every conversation we’ve had about our 2017 stay in Denali National Park. For whatever reason, our camping trip in the shadow of “The High One” has mystified…
While many know the USS Arizona Memorial just as “Pearl Harbor,” the sites that make up World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument are the most popular travel destination in Hawai’i. More than 1.5 million visitors travel to the site each year. Many don’t know that the monument is made up of a dozen…