Celebrating completing the Bluegrass State!
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Camp Nelson, Cumberland Gap, Mammoth Cave—a biosphere, national park & world heritage site—and Mill Springs are all above. Cumberland Gap is a multi-state park, but since I mostly hiked on the Kentucky side, I’m counting it here. Big South Fork and Fort Donelson parks are shared with Tennessee. Historic trails Lewis & Clark and Trail of Tears both travel in the state, and I recommend you do too.
Celebrating completing the Old Dominion State!
Appomattox Court House, Arlington House, Assateague Island, Booker T. Washington, Cedar Creek & Belle Grove, Colonial (plus Jamestown affiliate), Fort Monroe, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania, G. Washington Birthplace, G. W. Memorial Parkway, Great Falls Park, Maggie L. Walker, Manassas, Monticello (world heritage site), Petersburg, Prince William Forest, Richmond, Shenandoah, and Wolf Trap are above.
Virginia has parts of the Appalachian NST, Blue Ridge Parkway, Cumberland Gap, Harpers Ferry, and Potomac Heritage NST units. Five historic trails pass through too: Captain John Smith Chesapeake, Lewis & Clark, Overmountain Victory, Star-Spangled Banner, and Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route. Virginia has 2 unique heritage areas, Northern Neck—birthplace of Washington, Madison & Monroe—and Shenandoah Valley Battlefields—centered around Belle Grove—, and Journey through Hallowed Ground shares Civil War history across 4 states, including several sites above.
Celebrating completing the District!
Above are the Presidential sites, memorials, historic sites and parks:
Sections of six trails also enter the district, and there is one affiliate site.
Celebrating the Old Line State! Antietam, Assateague Island, Catoctin Mountain, Clara Barton, Fort McHenry, Fort Washington, Greenbelt, Hampton, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad, Monocacy, Piscataway Park, and Thomas Stone are all above.
Appalachian Forest NHA, Appalachian Trail, Chesapeake, C&O Canal, GW Parkway, Journey Through Hallowed Ground NHA, Harpers Ferry, Potomac Heritage, Rochambeau Route, Star-Spangled Banner are all partly in Maryland, and several of these parks and trails are part of the Baltimore and Southern Maryland NHAs.
Celebrating the First State! Delaware has one park, First State National Historical Park, which includes the New Castle Court House, the Kalmar Nyckel and Old Swede’s Church, above. The John Smith Chesapeake and the Rochambeau Route also cross the state. And Claymont, Howard & Hockessin are affiliate schools in Delaware of Brown v Board NHP in Kansas.
Celebrating completing the Mountain State!
Bluestone NSR, Gauley River NRA, Harpers Ferry NHP and New River Gorge NP are all above. West Viriginia has two shared NHAs, Appalachian Forest and Journey through Hallowed Ground—which includes Carnifex Ferry next to Gauley—, and two unique ones, National Coal—including all three river parks here—and Wheeling NHA. The Appalachian Trail, C&O Canal and Lewis & Clark all pass through. Almost heaven!
Celebrating the national park units in New Jersey: Great Egg Harbor River, Morristown, Paterson Great Falls and Thomas Edison NHP above. Sandy Hook is part of Gateway NRA, and Ellis Island is part of the Statue of Liberty, both shared with New York. Both the Middle Delaware River and the Water Gap are shared with Pennsylvania, and both the Appalachian Trail and Rochambeau Route are shared with many states. The Garden State (see below) also has the Crossroads of the Revolution heritage area and a lovely coastal drive. Beautiful!
Happy Patriots Day! 250 years ago today in Concord folks first fired back against tyranny!
Celebrating completing the Bay State! Adams NHP, Boston NHP, Boston African American NHS, Boston Harbor Isles NRA, Cape Cod NS, JFK NHS, Longfellow NHS, Lowell NHP, Minute Man NHP, New Bedford Whaling NHP, Olmsted NHS, Salem Maritime NHS, Saugus Iron Works NHS, and Springfield Armory NHS are all above. Massachusetts also has a heritage area in Essex around Salem & Saugus, and shares Freedom’s Way from Minute Man into New Hampshire, Blackstone Valley with Rhode Island, and shares both the Last Green Valley NHC and the Upper Housatonic Valley NHA with Connecticut. Parts of the Appalachian NST, the New England NST, and Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route are also in the Bay State.
Celebrating completing the Grand Canyon State!
Canyon de Chelly NM, Casa Grande Ruins NM, Chiricahua NM, Coronado N Mem, Fort Bowie NHS, Grand Canyon NP, Hubbell Trading Post NHS, Montezuma Castle NM, Navajo NM, Organ Pipe Cactus NM ℬ, Petrified Forest NP, Pipe Spring NM, Saguaro NP, Sunset Crater Volcano NM, Tonto NM, Tumacácori NHP, Tuzigoot NM, Walnut Canyon NM and Wupatki NM are all above. The Santa Cruz Valley and Yuma Crossing NHAs are here. Along with the Grand Canyon, Taliesin West is a World Heritage Site. Both the Arizona NST and the Butterfield Overland, de Anza and the Old Spanish NHTs cross the state.
Celebrating completing the Golden State!
Cabrillo NM, Castle Mountains NM, César E. Chávez NM, Channel Islands NP ℬ, Death Valley NP, Devil’s Postpile NM, Eugene O’Neill NHS, Fort Point NHS, Golden Gate NRA ℬ, John Muir NHS, Joshua Tree NP, Kings Canyon NP ℬ, Lassen Volcanic NP, Lava Beds NM, Manzanar NHS, Mojave N Preserve ℬ, Muir Woods NM, Pinnacles NP, Point Reyes NS, Port Chicago N Memorial, Redwood NP, Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front NHP, San Francisco Maritime NHP, Santa Monica Mountains NRA, Sequoia NP ℬ, Tule Lake NM, Whiskeytown NRA, and Yosemite NP are all above. The Pacific Crest NST, the Pony Express & Butterfield Overland NHTs, the California Pioneer NHT, and the Juan Bautista de Anza & Old Spanish NHTs end in California. And the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta NHA is worth exploring too. Biospheres are marked with a ℬ. Hollyhock House, Redwood NP, and Yosemite NP are World Heritage Sites.
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