npufwadm – Page 3 – National Park Units

North Cascades National Park: A Perfect Trifecta

If you are trying to visit all 419 national park units like we are, then North Cascades National Park offers…

Towering peaks capped with glaciers and ice fields, rushing rivers and waterfalls, emerald-colored lakes, meadows filled with wildflowers, and old…

Managed by the Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, San Juan Islands National Monument in Washington State was proclaimed…

It is hard to believe it was 40 years ago when Mount St. Helens erupted. May 18, 1980. On that…

Many people think that Yucca House National Monument should be part of Mesa Verde National Park, but after visiting it…

We recently began reading a Pulitzer prize winning book: “Washington A Life” by Ron Chernow. Very well written, this weighty…

Cedar Breaks National Monument is Utah’s highest national park unit at over 10,000 feet in elevation. So high in elevation,…

As we move through the Big 5 National Parks in the state of Utah, next up is Capitol Reef National…

Previously we have talked about two of the other National Parks that comprise Utah’s “Big 5” – Canyonlands National Park…

Yesterday we were out on a hike at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument in Arizona, and ran into a really…