A Journey Into America’s Past In the remote Utah desert, about 125 miles south from Salt Lake City, is Nine Mile Canyon. The area is filled with tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs, some thousands of years old. The earliest were produced by hunter-gatherer cultures of the mid-to-late Archaic periods from almost 7,000 yearsContinue reading “Utah’s 9 Mile Canyon”
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Visiting Yellowstone National Park
Beating The Crowds When Visiting Yellowstone National Park If you intend to visit Yellowstone, the first thing you need to understand is that the park is larger than the state of Delaware with just nine hotels and a few campgrounds inside the park. For that reason reservations are difficult to come by. Most Park visitorsContinue reading “Visiting Yellowstone National Park”
Legends Of Skagway & The Klondike Gold Rush
Three Real Legends Of The Yukon Gold Rush, Jack London One of the most enduring and widely known legends of the Klondike Gold Rush concerns Jack London, a young man who came to Alaska looking for gold. While he didn’t strike it rich, he turned his Klondike adventures into fame and fortune with legendary shortContinue reading “Legends Of Skagway & The Klondike Gold Rush”
Hiking Trails At The Peaks of Otter, In Virginia
Peaks Of Otter On The Blue Ridge Parkway One of the first developed tourist centers on the Blue Ridge Parkway was The Peaks of Otter and it dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. Today it includes camping, a hotel, restaurant and Visitors Center with a number of trails to hike. One hike, the Johnson FarmContinue reading “Hiking Trails At The Peaks of Otter, In Virginia”
Ketchikan’s Infamous Creek Street
Creek Street is a historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska that was once the city’s red-light district. The street is famous being built on pilings over Ketchikan Creek, and many of the original buildings have been restored and converted into shops, galleries, and restaurants. Dolly’s famous brothel pictured above in green Creek Street has a colorfulContinue reading “Ketchikan’s Infamous Creek Street”
Alaska’s Totem Poles
The totem pole is often the graphic symbol representing Alaska but what exactly are these totems about? The history of totem poles is long and complex, dating back thousands of years. The first totem poles were likely created by the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and the practice spread to other First Nation’sContinue reading “Alaska’s Totem Poles”