• ILLINOIS,  Road Trips

    Starved Rock State Park, Illinois

    Starved Rock State Park Illinois has some remarkable parks, Matthiessen, Buffalo Rock, and Starved Rock State Park are all within a few miles of each other along the Illinois River. Utica Illinois is a small town in Northern Illinois in La Salle County about an Hour and Forty-five minute drive from Chicago. This is a relatively low elevation hike with several trails that loop and twist around each other. There are waterfalls, like this one throughout the park. Some trails like the French Canyon have water you will have to walk through, others have elevated paths and railings. No matter your hiking level, this place has a path for you.…

  • OHIO,  Road Trips

    Cuyahoga Valley National Park

    Cuyahoga Valley National Park Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio is the only national park in the state. It’s a unique experience. Many privately owned homes and properties are peppered throughout the area. However, the train came first and the town was built up around it. When the area was designated a national park in 2000, so when the national park declared boundaries it had to work around the privately own land and buildings giving it a strange structure. The best way to experience the park is to take a train tour. It also has over 125 miles of hiking trails. Directions Address:6947 Riverview RoadPeninsula, OH 44264(41° 15’45.3″ N) (81°…

  • Road Trips,  UTAH

    Red Canyon Overlook, Road Trip Attraction

    Red Canyon Overlook Red Canyon Overlook and Flaming Gorge is one of the most underrated road trip destinations in the US. The drive is beautiful and shows all that North Eastern Utah has to offer. The Uintah Basin is an outdoors-man’s paradise, world-class fly-fishing, rock climbing, river rafting, hiking and national park quality landscapes without the crowds. Paleontologist come here to study dinosaurs, as well as white water kayakers who love the challenge. It has historically acclaimed petroglyphs dating back hundreds, even thousands of years. Those instagrammers won’t know what hit them. This trip will offer unique photos that will have people asking. Where is that? Directions From Vernal, Utah,…

  • Road Trips

    The First Thing About The Grand Canyon

    What You Need To Know The biggest, possibly critical, detail missed by people before they plan a trip to the Grand Canyon. You can’t see and do it all in one day. If you want to brave the Skywalk in GC West and take a selfie at Horseshoe Bend you’ll need to make the 5 1/2 hour drive to get from one end of the park to the other. Not exactly a day trip. Attractions The top three attractions that bring people to the grand canyon are the South Rim, Horseshoe Bend, and the Skywalk. But did you know you can’t visit all three in one day. They’re hours apart…

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    Everything About Grand Canyon West

    What You Don’t Know The thing a lot of people think they know but they don’t really know-know is just how huge the Grand Canyon actually is. And the Grand Canyon West is no exception. They know it’s wide, they know it’s deep but they don’t comprehend just how large this amazing world wonder is. Here are some numbers for you just to put it into perspective. Measurements The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446km) long, up to 18 miles (29Km) wide and over a mile deep (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters). That’s big, like really really big. 1,921.6 square miles BIG to be exact or 1,229,824 acres but for…