After a couple days of amusement parks on our first leg of our cross country national park tour, it was time to get into the root of the trip and start connecting with nature. Our first park on the trip was the Badlands in South Dakota, which meant a long day of driving from Minnesota….
The first leg of our families epic summer road trip to see National Parks started out not at a typical park at all. After a brief overnight stay near Chicago, our family made the trip up to Minnesota to visit Valleyfair amusement park and Mall of America to check out Nickelodeon Universe. Along the drive,…
Several years ago when our family learned that the United States government offered a free family National Park pass for kids in 4th grade, we started making plans for the summer of 2019. Starting from Cleveland, Ohio, we would make our west, trying to visit as many parks as we could within at least a…