One of the things we like best about visiting national parks is the unexpected. In this, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, the first stop on our Oregon road trip did not disappoint. We’re a bit embarrassed to say the fort felt more like a “check-off-the-list” site. We only had about 2 hours to visit before moving on…
Question: How many days does it take you to get back in the grove after a vacation? Coming back from our amazing 10th wedding anniversary road trip to Oregon and launching into busy work schedules was tough. Neither of us got the couch this weekend while recovering. It did give us a chance to download…
Today Park Chasers is sharing another installment in our series on epic drives within the National Park Service. Each year, thousands of Americans embark on road trips and driving adventures to national parks. This series showcases the roads and scenic drives you don’t want to miss on your next #parkchasing visit. Check out our previous…
At more than 3 million visitors per year, Acadia National Park is by far the most popular of the National Park Service sites in Maine. Acadia competes each year among the “Top 10 Most Visited National Parks.” It’s world-famous for its stunning sunrises and rocky shoreline. However, as we discovered during our 2017 visit, Maine’s other…
It’s time for another post in our “Park Chasers Profiles” series! Each Q & A interview features a national park traveler who also shares their adventures online like we do. Check out our profiles of National Parks Patch Lady, The National Parks Girl, Not-So-Junior Rangers and Just Go Travel Studios! Whether you are visiting your first…
Every national park we visit has a story to tell. That story combines the history, the geography, and the people who share in a park. To find that story, most times we have to “get personal” with a park. We never felt the “drive-thru” version helped us really know a park or what to recommend…
In April 2018, after a full day of trekking around Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the Hoover Dam, we finally headed towards our last destination of the day: Mather Campground in Grand Canyon National Park. To be honest, from what we’d already read and researched about Grand Canyon, we had low expectations for what…
With 24 national park sites in Alaska and more than 223.8 million acres of federal land to wander, there’s good reason to start early and travel often to “The Last Frontier.” For many, trips to Alaska’s national parks are the capstone on a lifetime of #parkchasing. While the big names like Denali and Glacier Bay National…
10 years ago… …the weather was 96° and steamy. …Michael Phelps was going nutso at the Beijing Olympics. …we’d never been to a national park. …we called a tiny apartment on the University of Minnesota campus our home. 10 years ago… …Our family and friends got together And I married my best friend. 10 years…
On most evenings at our base camp in St. Paul, in between trip planning and meal prep you’ll find at least one of us, phone in hand, scrolling through national park Instagram accounts. Instagram is our favorite place to catch up on national park news, research the places we’re going next, and catch those ‘virtual-vacations’…