Capitol Reef National Park is just a few miles from Torrey, UT and is best described as a giant buckling in the Earth's crust that stretches across central Utah. Its exterior appears rough with the many cliffs, canyons and colorful arches that are seen along the eight miles of scenic road that leads through the park. Dirt spurs, Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge are both suitable for driving for the first 2 miles before it's time to don the hiking gear. There are...

After the hauntingly strange and sleepless night in Wells, Nevada, we departed for our next destination - Baker, NV - a small town only a few miles from the The Great Basin National Park...population, 65. Having a nice collection of "post impression art" along the road leading to Baker made the drive even more enjoyable. As we arrived, the only other camper pulled out and we had the entire campground to ourselves - it seemed like the entire town was just ours ...

As we continued the trip south into Idaho we made the first day's drive a long day's drive spending about 7 hours on the road. We decided to call and check on availability at the Challis RV Park; the owner, Frank was a wealth of knowledge not only about the area but also about other areas. He recitied, as if he had studied for a test, the names of different restraurants and when and what their specials were - restaurants as far away as 100 miles (but again...

Glacier National Park is in the northwestern part of Big Sky Country - the state of Montana. The park is home to nearly every large mammal native to the United States and even a few Canadian species call this one-million-acre-park home. The most amazing sights weren't the animals but a combination of all the things from the earth and sky and in between. The brilliant colors of more than 1,000 flowering plants, the spruce, fir and pine trees, the multi-colo...

The North Cascades National Park is comprised of jagged peaks, steep canyons, rivers and lakes and more than 300 glaciers. The residents are grizzly and black bears, marmots, deer, a few elk, mountain goats and rarely seen are cougars and wolverines...not to say that they aren't there - just more obscure. We saw tracks for elk, deer, bear and cougar and was entertained by whistling marmots and an ocassional bugle from nearby elk but none graced our camera l...