This national park is very popular and ranks alongside Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. There are thirteen camping grounds within the park, in addition to many primitive camp sites on trails high in the mountains, and a number of privately owned in each of the small settlements outside the park entrances. We were fortunate that we had prebooked our reservation back in February as the park camps were all fully booked. Like all national parks we have pre...

Monday, 4 July was Independence Day here in the USA and a public holiday. The camping ground had been quite full of campers getting away for one of the rare long week-ends. We were surprised that the camping ground in Minneapolis did not provide any special activities as had been the case last year when we camped over the same week-end in Waynesboro before travelling into Shenadoah National Park in Virginia. We set off and continued our journey across the Great P...