This trip was our first trip to visit the the National Parks we have not yet visited over the years. We were hoping to visit 7 new ones: Colorado - Great Sand Dunes and Mesa Verde; Utah - Arches, Canyonlands, Capital Reef and Bryce Canyon; Nevada - Great Basin. We hoped to cover it all in a little less than 13 days, June 5, 2019 to June 18, 2019.
The route was to be something like this:
Denver to Fort Garland (B)
Fort Garland to Mesa Verde (C)
Mesa Verde Canyons of the Ancients (D) to Canyonlands (E) to Moab (F)
Moab to Capital Reef (G)
Capital Reef to Grand Staircase-Escalante (H) to Bryce Canyon (I)
Bryce Canyon to Great Basin (J)
Great Basin to Delta (B) to Glenwood Springs (C) to Denver
We made a list of the National Parks we have visited. They included:
| Acadia | Maine | |
| Badlands | South Dakota | |
| Black Canyon of the Gunnison | Colorado | |
| Death Valley | California | |
| Denali | Alaska | |
| Everglades | Florida | |
| Glacier | Montana | |
| Glacier Bay | Alaska | |
| Grand Canyon | Arizona | |
| Grand Teton | Wyoming | |
| Great Smoky Mountains | Tennessee | |
| Halekale | Hawaii | |
| Hawaii Volcanoes | Hawaii | |
| Kenai Fjords | Alaska | |
| Mammoth Cave | Kentucky | |
| Mount Ranier | Washington | |
| Petrified Forest | Arizona | |
| Rocky Mountain | Colorado | |
| Saguaro | Arizona | |
| Virgin Islands | St. John | |
| Wind Cave | South Dakota | |
| Wrangell St. Elias | Alaska | |
| Yellowstone | Wyoming | |
| Yosemite | California | |
| Zion | Utah | |
There were a couple of question marks in terms as to whether we have visited them officially:
| Redwood National Park | California | |
| Shenandoah | Virginia | |
That meant we had lots more to visit:
| American Samoa | Samoa | |
| Arches | Utah | |
| Big Bend | Texas | |
| Biscayne | Florida | |
| Bryce Canyon | Utah | |
| Canyonlands | Utah | |
| Capital Reef | Utah | |
| Carlsbad Caverns | New Mexico | |
| Channel Islands | California | |
| Congaree | South Carolina | |
| Crater Lake | Oregon | |
| Cuyahoga Valley | Ohio | |
| Dry Tortugas | Florida | |
| Gates of the Artic | Alaska | |
| Great Basin | Nevada | |
| Great Sand Dunes | Colorado | |
| Guadalupe | Texas | |
| Hot Springs | Arkansas | |
| Isle Royal | Minnesota | |
| Joshua Tree | California | |
| Katmai | Alaska | |
| Kings Canyon | California | |
| Kobuk Valley | Alaska | |
| Lake Clarke | Alaska | |
| Lassen Volcanic | California | |
| Mesa Verde | Colorado | |
| North Cascades | Washington | |
| Olympic | Washington | |
| Pinnacles | California | |
| Sequoia | California | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | North Dakota | |
| Voyageurs | Minnesota | |
It is not probable that we will make it to all of them (some in Alaska are very difficult to get to, and not too sure about Samoa........
But we'll try.
Link to next post: 6/5 - To Great Sand Dunes NP
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