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Grand Canyon National Park

North Kaibab Trail

• Type: Place

North Kaibab Trail is the least visited and most difficult of the major inner canyon corridor trails. It is challenging for day hikers as well as rim-to-rim hikers. Water at the North Kaibab TRAILHEAD water has been shut off for the winter and is expected to be turned back on May 15, when the roads open. Always carry a way to filter or treat creek water, in the event the water stations at Manzanita and Cottonwood Campground are not working.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Cimarron National Grassland

• Type: Place

This 19-mile trail, between Murphy and Conestoga Trailheads, parallels the original Santa Fe National Historical Trail and allows visitors to experience what life may have been like for early trail travelers. Limestone posts help mark the original trail and interpretive signs explain its history.

Capitol Reef National Park

Scenic Drive Stop 3

• Type: Place

Ancient environments determine today’s rock types and colors.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Elizabeth Billings

• Type: Person

When even the sharpest female minds were denied ranks above "amateur”, Elizabeth Billings (1871-1944) nonetheless achieved enough to impress a modern-day botanist. Her accomplishments included cultivating various gardens, experimenting in farming, managing the family estate, and cataloging hundreds of plants.

Big Thicket National Preserve

Sundew Trail

• Type: Place

0.3 to 1 mile roundtrip | Search for tiny red carnivorous plants known as sundews on an easy loop hike through a lush wetland pine savannah.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Tiptonville Exhibit Audio Description

• Type: Article

Interested in the Santa Fe Trail at Tiptonville? Take a look at this interpretive exhibit and listen to the audio description.

Early Detection Is the Best Protection for Old-Growth Forests

• Type: Article

Despite dire evidence of rising tree death, researchers found resilience and hope deep inside western Washington's forests. But it will take 21st-century monitoring methods to keep that hope alive.

Murphy Wagon Replica

• Type: Place

The Murphy Wagon was used first by traders on the Santa Fe Trail. Later, emigrants adapted the Murphy wagon to haul their belongings to Oregon and California.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Boggsville Historic Site

• Type: Place

Boggsville was once a stage stop on the Santa Fe Trail. Key businesses there were trading stores, owned by Thomas O. Boggs (built in 1862) and John W. Prowers (built in 1867). Boggsville became the seat of Bent County in 1870, but the coming of the railroad to nearby Las Animas brought about the town's downfall by 1880.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Dragoon Expeditions in the 1840s

• Type: Article

Fort Scott was established to contain Westward Expansion, yet many actions soldiers took had the opposite effect. From 1843-45, dragoons went out each summer to patrol the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails to make them safe for travel. They met with Native American tribes, had a showdown with Texans, and made it as far west as South Pass in Wyoming where they spent a few tense days near Oregon Territory in the event of a war with Great Britain.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent

• Type: Person

Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

Old Santa Fe Trail Building

• Type: Place

The iconic building located in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a masterpiece of Spanish Pueblo Revival architecture. The building, known as one of the largest secular adobe buildings in the United States, was constructed in the 1936-1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmark. The building not currently open to the public.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

109 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM

• Type: Article

On March 26, 1943, Dorothy McKibbin reported to work at 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and learned that their employer was the secret Los Alamos Laboratory in the nearby mountains, part of the covert Manhattan Project. From her modest office, Dorothy became “gatekeeper” to Los Alamos since all civilian employees and many of the military personnel checked in through her office.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Gregory Bald

• Type: Place

A grassy mountaintop meadow with panoramic views known for its azalea blooms in midsummer.

Redwood National and State Parks

Gold Bluffs Beach Day Use Area

• Type: Place

If you are heading to Gold Bluffs Beach or to Fern Canyon, this is the best place to park, picnic and enjoy the beach.

Yellowstone National Park

Howard Eaton Trailhead (OK2)

• Type: Place

This trailhead is located just south of the Old Faithful Area. It is access via a trail from the Old Faithful Area. This trailhead provides access to four trails, two of which start at the trailhead and and two more that start at Lone Star Geyser.- Howard Eaton Trail: Old Faithful to Lone Star Geyser- Fern Cascades Trail- Bechler River Trail- Lone Star Geyser Trail Howard Eaton Trail: Old Faithful to Lone Star Geyser A moderately easy, 6.3-mile (10.1-km) there-and-back trail

Redwood National and State Parks

Revelation Trail

• Type: Place

An easy walk under old-growth redwoods. A perfect option for all abilities, this 1/4 mile trail is 500 yards south of the Prairie Creek Visitor Center.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Crabtree Falls

• Type: Place

The tallest single waterfall on the Blue Ridge Parkway and beautiful open meadows attract visitors to Crabtree Falls Recreation Area, a rare open area before the parkway enters the Black, Craggy, Pisgah and Balsam mountain ranges. Take a leisurely stroll through the campground and open areas or a more strenuous 2.6-mile loop hike to view the waterfall and woodland habitat. At the base of the waterfall, ferns and wildflowers thrive in the mist.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Upland Trail

• Type: Place

The Pinhook Bog Trail System features two very different habitats. The Upland Trail highlights a rich beech and maple forest growing on top of a glacial moraine formed about 15,000 years ago. The Bog Trail leads to a bog in a depression in the moraine created when a large piece of ice broke off the melting glacier. The bog features an incredible habitat with unique plants.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Tiptonville

• Type: Place

The village of Tiptonville was an important stop for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. It was located on the Mountain Branch (route) of the Trail and another major Trail branch, the Cimarron, passed just to its east. Tiptonville depended on the Santa Fe Trail trade for its survival. However, when the Santa Fe Trail trade stopped, the village did not end. People still call Tiptonville home today.