Interesting Places to see and do

pigfarmer wrote:
NCWriter, your interests are very near the same as ours. We've been to all the places you have mentioned other than the Crow Canyon Center and the Anasazi Heritage Center in Delores, Colorado. I wish we had known about them before we visited all the sites. Next time in Colorado we will for sure go to those. Thank you!

You're welcome - we returned for a second trip for many we missed, and I am sure will be back for Round Three. Haven't made it yet to Canyon de Chelly.

My brother told me about Crow Canyon. He has gone a couple of times to spend a week on a dig. The one-day class takes you out to see a dig in progress. CC is near Cortez, and really an interesting place.

You'll like the Anasazi Heritage Center. The BLM had hundreds of archeologists working for years collecting artifacts before the canyons were flooded by the McPhee Reservoir - I read that the DAP (Dolores Archeological Project) was the largest ever in the history of the US. It's the center for Canyons of the Ancients also.

Dig for Diamonds

The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, AR

If you like Hot Sauce

Watch Blue Angels Practice Awesome!

Just a few spots, Scott's Bluff and Chimney Rock NE, Hubble's Trading Post AZ, Isle Royal NP in Lake Superior, Cape Disappointment WA, Ho Rain Forest WA, all the Slick Rock areas in AZ.

I could go on for hours but the DW is calling.

Sunrise from Cadillac Mountain

Tour the Winnebago plant in Forest City, Ia.

Reenactments, rendevous, pow-wows, folk skills schools, museums themed on our interests. Herself is interested in folk dancing and clogging so we'll be visiting Canada next year for its music, culture, etc. These events are all over the country and an internet search will turn up schedules.

We like places where we can participate in an activity and learn new skills. John C Campbell Folk School is a favorite place for us. They offer classes in music/dance, blacksmithing, woodworking, weaving/fiber arts and much more. All levels, beginners to advanced are offered. We stay at the local campgrounds there. https://www.folkschool.org/ Western NC where the folk school is located has a lot of museums for Appalachian culture and the Cherokee people. Scottish Tartans museum is in Franklin. Massive old growth trees at Joyce Kilmer NF outside of Robbinsville. You could easily spend three weeks in Western NC and not see it all.

Quite a few dutch Oven Gatherings around the nation. I've posted multiple links in the cooking threads of this forum.

NCWriter, your interests are very near the same as ours. We've been to all the places you have mentioned other than the Crow Canyon Center and the Anasazi Heritage Center in Delores, Colorado. I wish we had known about them before we visited all the sites. Next time in Colorado we will for sure go to those. Thank you!

Silver Lake

In St. John's, Newfoundland, The Rooms is a museum that tells the story of a fascinating province very effectively.

Near Mesa Verde National Park is the Crow Canyon center where you can take a one-day course and learn all about the Ancestral Puebloans - a GREAT introduction if you plan to visit any Southwestern ruins such as MV, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Hovenweep, etc.

Also near MV in Delores, CO is the BLM's Anasazi Heritage Center, a fascinating place.

Edge of the Cedars State Park in Utah (not a park, but a museum and ruins) is another don't-miss for fans of the Ancestral Puebloans.

Then there are all the Lewis & Clark Museums and sites. Great to climb Pompey's Pillar and see Clark's signature carved into the rock with the date in 1806. And in St. Louis, ride to the top of the arch and see the marvelous museum under it.

A fun thing to do is camp at Wahweap on Lake Powell and see Glen Canyon Dam three ways - on a boat ride into the lake's canyons; on a tour where you walk out onto the dam holding the lake and ride an elevator deep into the base of the dam; and finally, on an easy rafting trip on the Colorado River from the base of the dam to Lee's Ferry.

As a (now) professional photographer - was a hobbyist type one until people started buying pictures from me about 5 years ago and then I guess I became "professional" and being published and having exhibits at galleries and all - I look to God's beauty all the time.

General statement would be National Parks. Or State Parks. Particularly all over the western states and western Canada. But also most all of the OR Coast - mainly central to north.

Not trying to sell anything here but just for your enjoyment. See my websites :

www.LaurenBarbara.com go to Wanderings link on left and see pix from all over the (primarily) western states and Canada - listed by state

www.LaurensPix.com my "professional" website

About a year a go someone said to me "People's appreciation is a far greater reward than monetary."

Sorry I digressed but there is sooooooooooo much out there; and I hope all of you get a chance to see as much of it as possible. It will be there forever; we won't.