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Showing posts with label National Parks/Monuments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Parks/Monuments. Show all posts
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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We left Chase County Fishing Lake, stopped in the cute little town of Cottonwood Falls, then continued up the Flint Hills Scenic Byway to ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

St Croix National Scenic Riverway

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We visited the St Croix National Scenic Riverway twice on our trip, and it's a beautiful river.  I would have loved to get out and sp...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Effigy Mounds: The Sny Magill Unit

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Somewhere at Effigy Mounds, I saw something about a detached unit with more mounds, so I asked about it.  They said that I was probably wo...

Effigy Mounds National Monument

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We spent a morning at Effigy Mounds National Monument.  It's a pretty park, located along the bluffs of the Mississippi River in the D...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Harry S Truman National Historic Site and the beginning of the Oregon Trail

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While we were Independence, we visited several of the Harry S Truman sites.  We stopped at the visitor center and watched a short movie ab...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Having a great time at the Buffalo National River

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After leaving Little Rock late, we drove north for the Buffalo River.  In Marshall, we turned off Highway 65 and on to Highway 27.  We had...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Little Rock High School NHS and a rant

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We stopped by Little Rock High School to learn a little bit more about racial integration and our nation's history.  We thought it wou...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

A Visit to Hot Springs National Park

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Hot Springs National Park.  Another one of those destinations we had in mind on our road trip to Arkansas.  We arrived on a rainy afternoo...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Fort Smith National Historic Site

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Our next stop on our Arkansas road trip was at Fort Smith National Historic Site.  Fort Smith is located right on the border with Arkansas...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Pea Ridge National Military Park

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The Elkhorn Tavern When we planned our trip to Arkansas, high on the list of things to do was visiting Civil War sites.  Most of the Civ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Art in the Park at George Washington Carver National Monument

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After our two earlier stops in the Joplin area, we drove south a few miles to George Washington Carver National Monument.  It ended up bei...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Ft Scott NHS: Tribute to a Quartermaster

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Back in December, we visited Fort Scott National Historic Site.  It was a cold and blustery day, in my mind a perfect day to go to a museu...