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Top Ten Tuesday: Non-bookish freebie: My Favorite National Park Memories
My husband and I are determined to visit as many National Parks as we can.
Here are some of my favorite moments spent in a National Park:
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| Glacier National Park, Montana June 2025 So many memorable moments but our tour on the Red Bus was a highlight. A book read in June 2025: Raising Hare: a Memoir by Chloe Dalton |
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| Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington January 2025 Mt. Rainier is practically in our backyard and so we visit it quite often. On this sunny day we drove up to Paradise on Mt. Rainier with our youngest grandson. It was snowy but very warm that day so we kept shedding layers. For lunch we sat on the tailgate of Grandpa's pickup truck and sipped hot chocolate. Jamie informed me just the other day that he wants us to take him back up the mountain so he can sip hot chocolate sitting on the tailgate. A very happy memory. Book read in January 2025: Playground by Richard Powers |
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| Acadia National Park, Maine October 2024 The entire part of the state of Maine we visited seemed like one, beautiful National Park. Acadia was full of visitors the day we were there with everyone looking at the Fall colors. Book read in October 2024: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout |
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| Zion National Park, Utah April 2024 Everything about this park was majestic but our hike to this overlook was the most spectacular. Book read in April 2024: Leave Only Footprint: My Acadia to Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton |
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| Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah April 2024 The rock formations, called hoodoos, blew my mind. The boys took a hike amongst the hoodoos. This hike was the favorite hike of our trip. (Shown Grandpa and grandson) Another book I read in April: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
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| Arches National Park, Utah April 2024 We walked over ten miles this day. So many arches, such beauty. Another book I read this April: Sweet Thunder by Ivan Doig |
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| Everglades National Park, Florida October 2023 I was stunned by this river of grass. It was very different than I expected. My eyes couldn't take in all the beauty at once. Book I read in October 2023: Made for the Journey by Elisabeth Elliott |
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| Death Valley National Park, California May 2023 A terrible photo of a terrific view. We got up at 4 AM to drive from Las Vegas to Dante's Point in Death Valley NP to witness sunrise. The sky was overcast but we were alone on the point for a sacred experience. The whole day unfolded like a miracle. We couldn't believe the varied landscapes and experiences in this park. Book I read this month: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende |
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| Kings Canyon National Park, California April 2023 Sequoias. The biggest trees on earth. Just standing beneath them was overwhelming. (The route to Sequoia NP was washed out due to tremendous snow storms that winter so we didn't get to see General Sherman tree, the biggest of the behemoths.) A book I read on this trip: The Fox and I by Catherine Raven |
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| Olympic National Park, Washington March 2023 Spending a weekend with friends from New Jersey on the Olympic Peninsula in our state. Here we are in front of the gorgeous Lake Crescent. Later in the day we hiked in the mossy Hoh rain forest. A book I was reading this month: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon |
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| Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii February 2023 Visiting Hawaii with my sister and her husband. This park's strange ecosystem is so memorable -- a dormant volcano which last erupted in the 15th Century. A Book I read in Feb. 2023: Citizen Vince by Jess Walter |
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| Joshua Tree National Park, California June 2022 The rock formations and the trees, which really aren't trees. It was like we arrived on another planet. A sign at the Visitor Center said: "DON'T DIE HERE TODAY." Good advice. We remind each other of it frequently. An appropriate book I read this month: Stranger Planet by Nathan Pyle |
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| Lassen Volcanic National Park, California July 2021 We picnicked at beautiful Lake Helen which is at an elevation over 8000 ft. near the summit of the park. Book I remember reading on this trip: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green |
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| Badlands National Park, South Dakota June 2018. My daughter and I drove across the country after she finished grad school in New York back to our home in Washington State. We stopped at this National Park and gaped for a while. It was a little off-putting all the signs to beware of poisonous snakes. We listened to a lot of audiobooks on the trip. One was: Going Bovine by Libba Bray. |
Of course, I loved The Redwoods, Crater Lake, The Grand Canyon, and Yosemite. But we visited them before we had phones to take photos.
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