Archive for August, 2021
It’s not easy to get to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwest New Mexico. You have to endure 20 miles of dirt road before you get to the park and a paved highway again. And most of those 20 miles are rough – so rough that there are ways into the park the National […]
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Hovenweep National Monument
Every time I make a list of the national park sites I wanted to visit, Hovenweep National Monument never rises to the top. Heck, it barely makes it to the bottom of the list. Honestly, if Hovenweep wasn’t a national monument, I doubt if I would have even considered visiting the Colorado park. Why? Well […]
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There are some national park sites I visit that I either don’t have the time or the desire to see everything in the park. That wasn’t the case at Fort Laramie National Historic Site in eastern Wyoming. I believe I went on every trail, walked through every building, and went around all of the ruins […]
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Last week this blog looked at the archeological sites and cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. Those structures are what brings people to the park and what first attracted my attention. But as much as I enjoyed touring these sites, I was more impressed with Bandelier’s Falls Trail. The Falls Trail leads […]
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I broke up my visit to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico in two distinct sections. The first was obvious and well-known to me before I traveled there in June. The Main (Pueblo) Loop Trail is a short 1.4-mile jaunt that starts at the visitor center and leads through excavated archeological sites on the floor […]
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