travel dates: June, 2024 Our big theme for this year’s trip was “Canadian Cities,” and, as you might already know, New River Gorge National Park is not a Canadian city. But it is America’s newest national park and happens to be located in West Virginia, one of the few states we still needed to check off on […]
Port Au Choix and the Great Northern Peninsula, Briefly: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June, 2023 North of Gros Morne National Park, Highway 430–aka The Viking Trail– hugs the western coast of Newfoundland for 150 miles or so up the Great Northern Peninsula, before turning eastward, finally ending in the town of St. Anthony. The drive is beautiful and the road surprisingly good by Newfoundland standards. People […]
Gros Morne National Park, Southern Edition: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2023 We live just north of Atlanta, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. The southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail is just about an hour and a half from our house. Though the trail officially ends in Maine, the mountain range itself extends all the way to Newfoundland and ends with […]
Three Days in Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Medora, North Dakota
travel dates: July 2022 I talked about Theodore Roosevelt National Park awhile ago on the RV Atlas Podcast, if you’d care to listen. You can’t spend much time in Theodore Roosevelt National Park without hearing someone or other invoke the 26th president’s thoughts on North Dakota: “I have always said I never would have been […]
Glacier National Park East (and the Going to the Sun Road Finally Opens!)
travel dates: July 2022 After seeing the western side of Glacier National Park, we made our way east still not knowing for sure when the Going to the Sun Road was going to open. Rumors were swirling, but all the rangers we encountered steadfastly refused to verify the rumors. The road ended up opening on […]
Glacier National Park with Kids and Teens: Western Half Edition
travel dates: July 2022 Several years ago we went to Lassen Volcanic National Park in early July and found massive mounds of snow still blocking park roads and cutting us off from many of the park’s biggest attractions. Some research confirmed that we were exceptionally unlucky; the park websites has records listing the date the […]
A Smoky Stay at Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City: Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2023 Anyone planning an RV trip to New York City will have to confront that age old dilemma: stay close to the city in the expensive parking lot that is Liberty Harbor RV Park–right across the water from Manhattan–or stay at a campground campground and deal with a long commute into the city. A […]
Visiting Spiral Jetty and Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah (in which we sacrifice a hubcap for art)
travel dates: June, 2022 In 1970, artist Robert Smithson hired a crew to haul nearly 7000 tons of rock to the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and arrange it into a 1500 foot long spiral jutting counterclockwise into the lake. The sculpture is stunning to look at, and it has a […]
Visiting Mesa Verde National Park with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 2022 An important thing I learned at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is that I would make a terrible cliff dweller. For one thing there’s the ancestral Pueblo peoples’ fondness for ladders, and I’ve made my trepidation about ladders clear on here before. Then there’s the crawling through tight, enclosed spaces. And then […]
Bandelier National Monument and Los Alamos with Kids and Teens
Abe can be a nervous kid, particularly when heights are involved. I understand this, because I can be a nervous grown-up under the same circumstances. But I’m happy to report that, after some initial trepidation, both Abe and I conquered our fears at Bandelier National Monument and climbed the very scary ladders into the cavate […]