Tag: National parks with kids
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Rocky Mountain National Park: 4 Day Adventure
Rocky Mountain National Park is located about 60 miles northwest of Denver, CO between the towns of Estes Park and Grand Lake. The park’s 265,000+ acres is filled with over 60 majestic mountain peaks that top over 12,000 feet and over 150 gorgeous glacier lakes with the dreamiest of reflections. The park is also home…
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Mesa Verde National Park: 1 Day Adventure
Mesa Verde National Park is located in southwestern Colorado just outside the city of Cortez. Mesa Verde’s rich landscape became home to the Ancestral Puebloan people approximately 1400 years ago. Over a 700-year period, their communities flourished in what is now the national park we see today. Inside the park’s 52,000 acres are almost 5000…
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Mesa Verde National Park: 2 Day Adventure
Mesa Verde National Park is located in southwestern Colorado just outside the city of Cortez. Mesa Verde’s rich landscape became home to the Ancestral Puebloan people approximately 1400 years ago. Over a 700-year period, their communities flourished in what is now the national park we see today. Inside the park’s 52,000 acres are almost 5000…
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Arches National Park: 1 Day Adventure
Arches National Park is in eastern Utah, just north of the city of Moab. The park’s landscape is covered in every hue of red and orange across spectacular sandstone arches, massive fins, giant balanced rocks and incredible towers and pinnacles. It is home to the world’s largest collection of natural arches with over 2,000 of them…
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park: 2 Day Adventure
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is located in western Colorado, near the city of Montrose. While this park is one of the smaller, and less visited, of all the national parks, it is by no means lacking in immense beauty and magnificence. The sharp cliffs, roaring Gunnison River and vast skies are spectacular.…
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Congaree National Park: 1 Day Adventure
Congaree National Park is home to the last 11,000 protected acres of what used to be 35 million acres of old-growth floodplain forests that used to grow in the southern United States. The bald cypress, old-growth oaks, and loblolly pines are all equally impressive and among some of the tallest trees on the east coast.…
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New River Gorge National Park: 2 Day Adventure
New River Gorge National Park is the newest national park located in West Virginia, and home to the world’s second oldest river- New River. This place did not disappoint! It was unbelievably gorgeous and there is enough to do there to last you quite a few visits- over 100 miles of hiking trails, horseback riding,…