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We are taking a road trip from Denver to Salt Lake City in late September. Anyone have thoughts on the national parks around there… I guess mainly Arches and Canyonlands and Rocky Mountain?
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Aug 20, 2022 19:15
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Ooo, Black Canyon of the Gunnison sounds great, not sure we can justify the detour but maybe!
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Aug 22, 2022 01:54
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Trip report from our vacation the last couple of weeks to Colorado and Utah parks: Colorado National Monument: was rainy the day we visited so we just did the rim road but it was still amazing views when it wasn’t foggy. My wife was not happy with the lack of guard rails though. Like to the point of not enjoying it. Arches: was amazing, my new favorite park. Just driving around made me go wow. We spent a day and could have used another whole day since we skipped some hikes. They are doing timed reservations and initially we only got a 2 PM one but they open up more at 6 PM the day before and we were able to reschedule for free for a 7 AM one. Made a huge difference in how tolerable hiking was. That desert sun is no joke. It was crowded but not too crowded… there were always parking spaces at the stops. One pain is that they allowed re-entry but it sucked since you had to wait in the normal entrance line to get back in which wasted a half hour. Canyonlands: great views from the overlooks, some fun hikes. The park road between the overlooks is mostly boring with no views. Kind of felt like this hit the same points as Dead Horse Point State Park since they are both “look down into a canyon from overlook”. And most people do them back to back since they are both 45 mins from Moab. Timpanogos Cave National Monument: never heard of this before but we were in Salt Lake City with one day to kill and bored of the city. 30 minutes or so from downtown, and a very pretty valley. It’s a killer hike to the cave entrance (1000 feet elevation gain over 1.5 miles with no flat parts), and then a guided tour of the caves. Very interesting smaller caves, and some fun contortions needed to avoid banging your head on the stalactites. Not anything like the scale of Carlsbad Caverns but fun. We booked tickets the same day, but it was a weekday and hard to do that on a Saturday. Since it’s a tour, the parks pass doesn’t cover it. Also, we didn’t go to RMNP because we did it on our last trip and they are doing timed reservations and we couldn’t get one.
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Sep 27, 2022 21:46
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From the summary, seems like a bunch of random junk. Don’t think that shooting range but is going anywhere. Maybe this is just part of the bill though, seems like they combined a bunch.quote:If the public does not need to obtain a permit or reservation to access an existing picnic area, neither the Department of the Interior nor the Department of Agriculture (USDA) may require an outfitter or guide serving fewer than 40 clients to obtain a permit to access that site.
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Oct 12, 2022 12:07
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Going to Nashville for a wedding and want to stay longer. Any good national parks within an easy drive that people would recommend? I see Mammoth Cave but we’ve been to a few caves already.
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Jan 29, 2023 17:50
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Ha! https://www.nps.gov/places/symbolic-birth-cabin.htm Very historic-ish.
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Jan 29, 2023 21:09
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Mammoth Cave trip report: To see the cave you need to book a tour. In late April, not much need to book far ahead for any of the daily tours. Apparently very different in the summer which leads to a lot of disappointed people. We debated a lot over which tour to take. Ended up doing the Violet City lantern light tour. The whole thing is only lit by vintage lanterns and is intended to mimic the tours of a hundred years ago. It was very cool but three hours long and got to be a bit of a slog two thirds through. Lanterns honestly aren’t a very good light source and so you had to look down a lot to not trip. And they didn’t really illuminate the whole cave and the point of this cave is that the chambers are huge. Tour guide was really great though. Would have liked to go back another day for the more basic tour but alas, no time. Definitely worth going to, even if you’ve seen other caves since it’s a bit different. Not really any stalactites or stalagmites, just big rooms with fairly flat ceilings.
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May 13, 2023 13:44
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We enjoyed the hike across the Kīlauea Iki crater although it’s a longer hike than the mileage would suggest and bring more water than you would think. https://www.nps.gov/havo/planyourvisit/hike_day_kilaueaiki.htm
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Jun 13, 2023 19:39
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Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is in Topeka, Kansas for anyone else who doesn’t remember their history class. (Oops it does say that, I missed it on first read.) I’ve never been in Topeka personally.
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Jan 7, 2024 15:59
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I wish we had gone to Black Canyon. It was just a little too far of an out and back drive for our road trip schedule
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Feb 10, 2024 14:20
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I was there in late May a few years ago and there was still snow on the ground on the rim. It was pretty though.
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Mar 25, 2024 13:23
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