There are 433 sites managed by the US National Park System. This is the passport book for the national park system. I kept thinking about buying this and finally pulled the trigger when we visited Chickamauga National Military Park. It lists all of the national park sites organized by region and then by state. I don’t think (hope?) we will become obsessed about seeing all of the sites. It is a great reference for finding new places to visit as we travel the country.
After dinner we went through the book to cross off sites we already visited. It’s pathetic that we have been in more (number and %) parks in Arizona and New Mexico than our home state of Ohio.
We are missing six parks in Alaska, hmmm.
We are missing a bunch of parks in the NE, I wonder why?
Each park site is listed with a brief description. There are rubber stamps at the park you can use to document that date you visited. Stick on stamps are also available to order, not sure if we will do that or not.
Update: Leann wanted the stamps, ordered them and started adding them to the book.
I will follow the region layout in the book and will organize the parks by region then by state. I will also include state parks, backpack trips and other things we found interesting in each sate. I hope that makes sense, it is a major change to the blog and I sure hope it works.
I will keep the national park sites separate from this section since they are the top of the hill in the park system.
I decided to start using the official national park abbreviations in the title for each park, lot of changes to male.
HAPPY TRAILS, STEVE