National Parks Posts

Have you been to Yellowstone National Park recently?  Did you know about Yellowstone in West Yellowstone, Montana?   If you are doing research on Yellowstone it is easy to find in The Museum of the Yellowstone in West Yellowstone, Montana.  The building was originally the end-of-line depot of the Oregon Short Line Railroad.  The Union Pacific Dining Lodge, a massive edific...

   There are over 600,000 acres of lakes in Arkansas. Many of these lakes are homes to campsites, cabins and boat tours. The boat tour guides are familiar with the wildlife and history of the land so, there are many thing that you can learn on your trip. There are several activities available like, fishing, sailing, scuba diving and much more. The clean, spring-fed water is the perfect s...

George Washington Carjack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1896.  Once word of the strike filtered back to civilization, gold fever infected hordes of people looking to get rich quick, and the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 brought thousands of potential prospectors to the ramshackle Alaska towns of Dyea and ...

Since the first postage stamps depicting the national parks were released in 1934, the Grand Canyon has been represented on more stamps than any other park. In May 1999 Stamp Services discovered a typographic error that occurred during the production of the 60-cent international commemorative Grand Canyon stamp. This resulted in the destruction of 100 million stamps, costing Postal Service approx...

While tracking stray cattle through a snowstorm in a rugged and remote country in 1888, two ranchers stood on the edge of a deep canyon and saw what looked to be man-made walls and towers built on a ledge on the canyon’s opposite wall.  The ranchers had discovered one of the 500 cliff dwellings and 4,800 archaeological sites that dot the 52,074 acres that today make up MESA VERDE NATIONAL PAR...