Author: Arlene Courtney

A Tale of Two Caves

During a trip to South Dakota last summer, I had the opportunity to visit two National Park Service (NPS) units that each have a cave as the primary feature. While Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument are separated by only 30 miles, to a visitor’s eye, the caves are very different. Jewel […]

In Search of Foxes – Channel Islands National Park

The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the southern California coast that are spread over a 160-mile region. The national park consists of 250,000 acres of land and ocean environment. The primary visitor center for the park is located on the harbor in Ventura, California although there is a small visitor center at […]

An Adventure on the Rails-to-Trails “Crown Jewel”

Rail-Trails are flat or gently sloping paths created from decommissioned railroad corridors. The Route of the Hiawatha is a very scenic biking trail that follows an old railroad right-of-way traversing the Bitterroot Mountains near the Idaho/Montana border. This railway, known as the Milwaukee Road, was an important stretch of the last of the transcontinental railroads […]

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