National Park Getaway: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
November 20, 2009
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. – Less than a week from now, millions of us will be thronging airports and gingerly pulling onto crowded highways, bound for different places, but most of us headed home. At certain times of year, that destination exerts a magnetic force on us. We can empathize with our nation’s... Read more »
National Park Getaway: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
November 5, 2009
HAGERMAN, Idaho – You might not believe it at first, but time travel is possible. Here in southern Idaho at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, you can find yourself back in the Pliocene Epoch, 3 million to 4 million years from the current day. It’s right before the Ice Age, and you’re... Read more »
National Park Getaway: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
October 29, 2009
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont’s only national park, offers year-round opportunities to explore history, ecology, and art in the scenic foothills of the Green Mountains. This is a park that tells a local and national story of conservation history, evolution of land... Read more »
Cedar Breaks National Monument: Crimson Canyon
October 1, 2008
The drive to Cedar Breaks National Monument along Utah Highway 148 is a beautiful jaunt through meadows and woods, but en route there is not a clue as to what you’ll be seeing at the end of the road. Ancient peoples and early explorers must have been amazed as they walked or rode through typical high-elevation... Read more »
