Acadia to Zion, I’ve been to both, and thirty-two of the fifty-seven others in that alphabetical list of U.S. national parks.
I’ve never had a year’s paid vacation to visit them.
But Mark Woods, author of Lassoing the Sun, did.
He was one lucky guy.
Last January I wrote about the importance of planning your summer visits to U.S. National Parks in the Western U.S. well in advance of your trip.
Even though it is still officially winter throughout America, you should act now to make your dreams of a national park vacation come true for one very important reason: The National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary this coming August, and that alone may prompt even more tourists to head to the hills, valleys, mountains and geothermal features of the most popular parks, such as Yellowstone and Yosemite.
Here are two recently published books that will fuel those park-visit fantasies and help you decide which parks to put on your “bucket list” of places to make it to this year.
Last week in “Central Park: The Big Apple’s Backyard” we looked at how that big green open space defines New Yorkers’ “play space.”
But what objects define the city itself? …