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Fort Clatsop
  • Type: Place

The Corps reached the Pacific Ocean over a year and a half after departing from Camp Wood, and settled in for the 1805-06 winter. They built Fort Clatsop, a reconstruction of which is found at its original site, located in Astoria, Oregon. The Corp's presence in this area strengthened the United States's claim to the Northwest. It also paved the way for the first American settlement--the Pacific Fur Company Post, established in 1811 by John Jacob Astor.

Colorado National Monument

Rim Rock Drive (Colorado National Monument)
  • Type: Place

Rim Rock Drive is a 23 mile paved road through Colorado National Monument.

Colorado National Monument

Otto's Trail (Colorado National Monument)
  • Type: Place

Otto's Trail in Colorado National Monument leads to excellent views of Wedding and Monument Canyons, including Independence Monument.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Bond Cabin
  • Type: Place

Built in 1918 and known as the "Big House," it served as a seasonal home for the Bond family and functioned as the official ranch headquarters. The living room fireplace and wood-burning stove heated the building, and the cooking was done mostly outdoors. An outhouse was used until the Dunigan family remodeled in the 1980s.

Big Thicket National Preserve

Woodlands Trail
  • Type: Place

5 miles roundtrip | The Woodlands Trail loops through different kinds of forest landscapes and some hilly terrain. Find a scenic pond near the beginning of the trail.

Big Thicket National Preserve

Beech Woods Trail
  • Type: Place

1½ miles roundtrip | See a forest of American beeches on this pleasant loop hike in the northeastern corner of the preserve.

Coming Full Circle: How Parks Are Using Conventional Tools in New Ways to Restore Imperiled Forests
  • Type: Article

Depriving western old-growth forests of fire brought them to the brink. Now the fire they need also threatens them. To fix this, parks are returning to mechanical forestry methods.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Hospital Rock Picnic Area
  • Type: Place

Picnic in an oak woodland near the Middle Fork of the Kaweah River. Numerous picnic areas offer both sunny and shady spots to eat and relax. While you're here, browse outdoor exhibits that tell the story of Native Americans who lived and traveled in this area, and continue to visit this area today.

Piscataway Park
  • Type: Place

Piscataway Park is home to bald eagles, beavers, deer, foxes, ospreys, and many other species. To complement the surroundings, the park has, in addition to a public fishing pier and two boardwalks over fresh water tidal wetlands, a variety of nature trails, meadows, and woodland areas. The park is also home to National Colonial Farm.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Val-Kill
  • Type: Place

From a place she called Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote books and newspaper columns, served as the first U.S. delegate to the United Nations, chaired the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Val-Kill was a center of her development as activist, humanitarian, diplomat, and one of the most consequential leaders of the twentieth century.

Connecting the Dots: Muir Woods Hidden Figures
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The history of how many significant moments at Muir Woods were influenced by a network of influential women and LGB leaders. Learn about the conditions of the time period and how Pauli Murray, Jane Addams, Frances Perkins, and others effected change.

Muir Woods National Monument

Elsa Gidlow's "Chains of Fires"
  • Type: Article

When Elsa Gidlow first laid eyes on the land above Muir Woods National Monument, she knew it was “the place to realize a dream.” That dream was Druid Heights, her home from the mid-1950s until her death in 1986. As a lesbian writer, poet, and philosopher she refused to conform to mainstream America’s ideas about family, love, and home. Every year she lit a Winter Solstice Fire, a ritual that connected her with women across time.

Boston National Historical Park

Asahel Wood
  • Type: Person

Asahel Wood enlisted in Hatfield, Massachusetts in the company of Capt. Reuben Dickinson in Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Cato Wood
  • Type: Person

Cato Wood was present at Battle Road in Col. Thomas Gardner’s regiment. He later enlisted in Charlestown, Massachusetts in the company of Capt. Edward Blake, in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the diagonal.

Boston National Historical Park

Cornelius Lenox
  • Type: Person

Cornelius Lenox enlisted in Woburn, Massachusetts in company of Capt. John Wood, in Col. Samuel Gerrish’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Boston National Historical Park

Cuff Wood
  • Type: Person

Cuff Wood enlisted in Charlestown, Massachusetts in the company of Capt. Edward Blake, in Col. Jonathan Brewer’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the diagonal.

Boston National Historical Park

Eber Wood (Allis)
  • Type: Person

Eber Wood enlisted in Hatfield, Massachusetts in the company of Capt. Reuben Dickinson in Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Saratoga National Historical Park

Victory Woods
  • Type: Place

These 22 acres mark the final encampment site for the British Army under General Burgoyne prior to their October 17, 1777 surrender to American forces. The trail is self-guided and offers a raised, accessible 1/2-mile pathway with interpretive signs.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Polly Wood's Ordinary
  • Type: Place

Easy to overlook, Polly Wood’s Ordinary provides a key link in the evolution of travel accommodations in Virginia, especially at the Peaks of Otter. The ordinary is a step up from sleeping in tent and yet is vastly different from what most travelers today expect from a night in a hotel/lodge.

Boston National Historical Park

Jonathan Anthony Jr.
  • Type: Person

Jonathan Anthony Jr. enlisted in Medford, Massachusetts into the company of Capt. John Wood, in Col. Samuel Gerrish's regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill.