scenery

Realizing Yosemite

Yosemite is one of the crown jewels of the US National Park system.

If you approach Yosemite from the south you enter through a tunnel, the second longest tunnel in the national park system. And then there's a parking lot where you can get your first view of the Yosemite Valley and Bridal Veil Falls.

If you approach Yosemite from the south you enter through a tunnel, the second longest tunnel in the national park system. And then there’s a parking lot where you can get your first view of the Yosemite Valley and Bridal Veil Falls.

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Camping in the Parks

I’ve never camped in a National Park. So this road trip offered the opportunity to do that. The third evening into the trip I arrived at Mesa Verde National Park, in the southwest corner of Colorado.

Mesa Verde has a lot of archaeology going on, which is great.

Mesa Verde has a lot of archaeology going on, which is great.

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