Visiting Zion National Park in Utah had been a dream of mine for years, so when I found out about a work trip to Las Vegas that would leave me with the weekend free, I was quick to look up options for getting to Zion from Vegas. While there are buses that make the trip, …
Growing up in Seattle, I felt fairly spoiled to have three incredible national parks within a day’s drive. That said, emphasis on drive – I never imagined I could get to any of the parks without a car. Olympic National Park also has always felt the farthest away, despite what Google Maps might give you …
Glacier National Park may feel remote – located in northern Montana, over a 2 hour drive from Missoula – but it is actually very easy to visit and enjoy without a car. That is, if you’re up for a train ride! Combining a train journey to and from the park, with the free park shuttle …
Thanks to the opportunity to work remotely, I spent three weeks in Alaska working in Anchorage during the week and then taking off to explore on the weekends. (Check out my post on a weekend road trip on the Kenai Peninsula here.) Visiting Denali National Park had always been a dream, and even though I …
Thanks to the opportunity to work remotely, I spent three weeks in Alaska working in Anchorage during the week and then taking off to explore on the weekends. (Posts about weekend adventures near Anchorage and to Denali National Park are coming soon!) My very first weekend I took an epic road trip to the Kenai …
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska may seem as remote as other Alaskan parks like Katmai and Lake Clark. But thanks to a family I met on the ferry ride to Juneau, I realized that spending a weekend in Glacier Bay National Park is actually a fairly easy – and totally incredible …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Fitting everything into a weekend trip to Olympic NP can seem harder to do than visiting its two sister national parks, given the park’s location across Puget Sound from Seattle and with such a large area …
After moving back to Seattle, reunions with all three of Washington’s national parks were high on my to-do list. Visiting North Cascades National Park requires somewhat strategic timing, as Highway 2 (also known as the North Cascades Highway) closes during the winter – and if you visit too soon after it reopens, many of the …
This is a bit of a cheat on the “48 hours” concept because really you should go to Maine for at least four days, and this is a one-way trip that starts in Acadia. What I actually did was fly into Boston in the evening, drive up to the Acadia area (a cute AirBnB in …
While it feels like my family explored every corner of Washington state and even ventured into Oregon plenty, when I was growing up we never spent time in California. I had visited friends in LA and SF during college but I had never had a car on those trips to help me get to the …