
The fifth and final National Park we visited in Utah in 2021 was Zion and it was spectacular! If you want to read more about our full experience in Utah, you can check out my blog post here! Driving into the park through the east entrance was incredible. One of the most impressive things I…

Bryce Canyon was easily one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. In 2022, Bryce was the 15th most visited National Park with around 2.3 million visitors. I’m honestly shocked it wasn’t ranked higher. We visited Utah in 2021 and it was the 4th park we explored. If you want to read more about our…

I fell in love with Big Bend during our trip there in October and November of 2024. There is something so wild about it. Maybe it’s the fact that the Chihuahuan desert is unforgiving or how surprisingly green Chisos Basin is or beauty of the Rio Grande delicately carving a boundary between Mexico and the…

Capitol Reef was the third of Utah’s five National Parks that we visited. After being above the canyons in Canyonlands, this park has us looking up at the canyon walls from below. If you want to read more about our full experience in Utah, you can check out my blog post here! I wish we…

In 2022, Canyonlands National Park was the 29th most visited national park out of the 63, with almost 780,000 recreational visits. Its neighbor, Arches National Park, was ranked 20th with almost double the visits. Canyonlands was the second of Utah’s five parks that we visited and it was a welcomed change from the crowds and…

One of the most memorable National Park memories I have was driving into Arches. Coming from the east coast of the United States, we had never seen a landscape like the one we saw there. The red rocks were otherworldly; we truly felt like we were on another planet. This park really kicked off our…

If the White Mountains of New Hampshire and New River Gorge National Park had a baby, it would be Great Smoky Mountain National Park. It was so green, lush and beautiful – I really loved it!

If you want to visit Acadia National Park but aren’t sure where to start, keep reading! I grew up in Maine, so visiting Acadia National Park was something I did multiple times as a kid. Sadly, I don’t really remember the visits and didn’t really appreciate them at that age. The first time I truly…

Virgin Islands National Park on the island of St. John was the first park Jarrett and I ever visited together. This was long before we decided to visit all 63 US National Park, so I didn’t pay close attention to the park details, trail names or history like I do now. We didn’t even go…