Which parks do I NEED to see?
We are leaving from Montreal and going mostly towards the west coast. East coast is easy to do on other years when I get less vacation time. We have 2 months to see as much as possible while enjoying...
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At risk of being redundant, I'll give you our list based on what we saw "back in the day" (our kids were 9 & 12 at the time) in no particular order:
Yellowstone NP
Cody WY (not a park but a lot of history and stuff for kids to do)
Craters of the Moon NM
Golden Spike NM
Arches NP
Yosemite NP
Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP
Death Valley NP (and stop at the ghost town of Rhyolite)
Lewis & Clark Caverns (near Cardwell, MT)
Elkhorn MT (ghost town)
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR
Great Sand Dunes NM
Pipestone NM (Pipestone, Minnesota)
Ingalls Family Homestead DeSmet, SD
Dodge City, KS
I've included a few non-National Park destinations there. Now all the National Parks & Monuments have Junior Ranger programs, but we also wanted to have things for the kids to do that were not necessarily connected to national parks. For example we stopped in Fossil, OR so the kids could dig for plant fossils.
Whatever you choose, enjoy & safe travels.
Yellowstone NP
Cody WY (not a park but a lot of history and stuff for kids to do)
Craters of the Moon NM
Golden Spike NM
Arches NP
Yosemite NP
Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP
Death Valley NP (and stop at the ghost town of Rhyolite)
Lewis & Clark Caverns (near Cardwell, MT)
Elkhorn MT (ghost town)
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR
Great Sand Dunes NM
Pipestone NM (Pipestone, Minnesota)
Ingalls Family Homestead DeSmet, SD
Dodge City, KS
I've included a few non-National Park destinations there. Now all the National Parks & Monuments have Junior Ranger programs, but we also wanted to have things for the kids to do that were not necessarily connected to national parks. For example we stopped in Fossil, OR so the kids could dig for plant fossils.
Whatever you choose, enjoy & safe travels.
