Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[JimH]

My wife and I just spent most of the last three weeks in the car, touring the Southwest and stopping in a lot of National Parks.  It was a terrific trip.  I just put the pictures on pix01.com.


Death Valley

6000 miles, 17 days, 8 national parks, 6 Dairy Queen stops, a couple of rotten potatoes, etc.

Mesa Verde NP -- Created at http://pix01.com/Id@QiOg
Four Corners -- Created at http://pix01.com/8d@STUm
Monument Valley -- Created at http://pix01.com/Hd@3z57
Bryce NP -- Created at http://pix01.com/Gd@ef3C
Zion -- Created at http://pix01.com/Fd@23cK
Death Valley NP -- Created at http://pix01.com/Ed@v4Gt
Yosemite NP -- Created at http://pix01.com/Dd@6nY21
Green Gulch -- Created at http://pix01.com/Bd@rd671
Point Reyes -- Created at http://pix01.com/Ad@XLgQ

[KingSparta]

Where Was The Light House?

[JimH]

Where Was The Light House?

Hi Mark,
It was at Point Reyes.  It's a National Seashore just north of San Francisco.  A very wild place.

[MrC]

Awesome trip Jim.  You were just up the road from us when you were in SF.

I've enjoyed each of the places on your list numerous times.  The desert southwest has some of the greatest NP's in the US (in my view).   I've been fortunate enough to have taken over a dozen trips there, probably logging ~ 40k miles.

Did you get to see/have you seen Escalante and the grand staircase (esp. driving Scenic Byway 12)?  Pre-WWII, there was a movement to make Escalante NP, a grand-daddy including much of southeastern Utah:

http://www.utah.com/escalante/
http://www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/escalante.htm

I recognize the general area from your photo above, and from the order of your photos, believe I can determine the route you took.

I took a young, always "hot, tired, and hungry" cousin on a road trip to Yosemite, Death Valley, Mono Lake, and Las Vegas.  You may recognize some of the sites you just visited.

Thanks for sharing.

[JimH]

Thanks, Mike.  Looks like your family vacation was a lot like mine!  Girls in pools....

[KingSparta]

I Have Been Thinking Alot About Selling My House And Buying A Nice RV Of Some Sort In The Future, And Then Rome The Country Side.

Maybe When I Turn 62, (If I Am Still Alive).

[gappie]

nice pictures.. beautiful landscape. looks like you two enjoyed it. 

 
gab

[rernazy09]

...that you would want to visit? Any 5 national parks in the US or Canada. And please not just ones that you would want to visit, but also ones that you have visited and would recommend. Thanks

[MrC]

...that you would want to visit? Any 5 national parks in the US or Canada. And please not just ones that you would want to visit, but also ones that you have visited and would recommend. Thanks

The NPS in the US, and the US, is too large to list a Top 5, without considering a region.  How about specifying a region?  There are obvious candidates: Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Zion/Bryce, Sequoia/Kings Canyon, but the list goes on and on...

[bob]

Overlooked, a bit out of the way, but awesome, Canyon de Chelly National Monument

http://www.nps.gov/cach/index.htm

Check google images:
http://images.google.com/images?q=canyon+de+chelly&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=TioZS5S0E4n-nQfDpa3ZAw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCsQsAQwAw