Glacier National Park last September. Arrived to find the Road to the Sun closed due to a fire. Got lucky and they reopened the road a few days later. Beautiful place to visit.
My most recent visit to Padre Island National Seahore was over Thanksgiving, but I’m there about eight or ten times a year anyway. Whenever we visit my in-laws, who live fairly close to it, my FIL and I end up surf fishing there.
Yosemite National Park, in early November. I hiked Tenaya Canyon, and the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Late Fall is a good time to visit YNP - weather can be beautiful (it was while I was there), and the hopeless Valley crowds of May - September have thinned to a bearable level.
Badlands a few years ago. The same trip I bagged Glacier NP on.
Probably Fort Washington. The Firebug and I like to go there and roam around.
This is probably the fastest I thread I’ve started has reached two pages.
Quite right. Itr can be any country’s national park.
The judges will allow it. But good to mention both.
:dubious: What do you mean “You guys”, mate?
Went to Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia in November. It was cold but the leaves were still pretty. Plenty of scenic miles of highway, overlooks, and hikes up there.
If we’re allowing areas managed by the NPS then:
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[li]Cape Cod National Seashore a few times this summer[/li][li]Boston National Historical Park frequently[/li][li]Minute Man National Historical Park most days on my commute[/li][li]The Appalachian trail frequently over the summer and fall[/li][/ul]
If you are looking outside the US we were in Banff, Jasper, and Yoho National Parks in Canada this February.
Shenandoah National Park in VA, after completing a run up the Blue Ridge Parkway. Serious props to those engineers of that parkway and the Skyline Drive that makes up the section in the Shenandoah National Park.
Great experiences.
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Going by the strict “National Park” criteria, probably Crater Lake. It’s been a while…
Bryce Canyon and Zion in October
Actual National Park? Boy, no clue, but probably Rocky Mountain National Park, a long, long time ago.
If National Lakeshores count, then it’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. I get thereabout just about every summer.
I’m not really sure how they designate the difference between a National Park, Lakeshore, Forest, etc., but the last “Park” would have been Everglades in January 2017. National “something” would have been either Hiawatha or Pictured Rocks in October 2018.
Without looking at a map and thinking back, I’m not sure whether it would have been Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, or Cairngorms. They’re quite close together and on many a journey in the southern Highlands you will go through both. It will have been in the last few months though.
My family spent a day at Mesa Verde this summer on the way back from a road trip. And we spent a week at Rocky Mountain on the way out.
The best trip was a decade ago: a week in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, then to Banff for a week with several excursions to Jasper and other Canadian NPs in the surrounding area, and a day at Glacier on the way back.
Mt. Haleakala National Park on Maui, in Oct. 2016. My wife got carsick on the drive up to the summit and back down again.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever been to a US National Park. In my 20s I camped at Assateague Island’s State Park in Maryland, but I think there’s a National Seashore section. Maybe.
We own a cabin that borders the Shenandoah National Park. We go there a couple of times a month and on most visits wander in and out of the park.
I missed the edit window, but our house is two blocks from Grant Circle in Washington. While not a National Park, DC’s circles are owned and maintained by the National Park Service. I walk my dog in Grant Circle several times a week.