National Park Service
Roadschooling with the Junior Ranger Program
For us, the National Park Service’s Junior Ranger program is an indispensable and hands-on component of our roadschool curriculum.
Travel Journal
Travel Journal | Fort Pickens and the Gulf Islands National Seashore
One of our first national park sites as a full-time family was Fort Pickens, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. I so vividly remember arriving, driving out onto the island and immediately becoming enchanted by the sugar sand, the crashing waves and the history hidden among it all. I Read more…
Travel Journal
Travel Journal: Wander Bus Woes Part Two
By Abigail Epperson If you’ve had a chance to read part one, you know we were in a bit of a predicament. Wander Bus was solidly broken down and we were looking at days if not weeks before she’d be ready to hit the road. We were sick, stuck in Read more…
Travel Journal
Travel Journal: White Sands National Monument
Have you ever been somewhere that felt out of this world? I can honestly say I’ve never had such an experience, or at least that was the case before we visited White Sands National Monument.
Travel Journal
Travel Journal: Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns is an underground wonderland. One of those places where seeing is truly believing, and pictures — even the iconic Ansel Adams— just can’t capture the true power and size of this cavernous space.
Destinations
Five Midwest Do-Not-Miss National Park Service Destinations
Looking to visit a National Park in the Midwest? Check out our list of five places worthy of your next family vacation.
Travel Journal
Travel Journal: Mammoth Cave National Park
One of the National Park locations Jason and I have been dying to get to is Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park. For years we have talked about camping near the caves and showing the boys a wondrous world underground, so when the opportunity came for us to spend several days at Read more…