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Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Make Your Own Mississippi Mud Pie
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Children in Mississippi have made "mud pies" for many generations. Now is your chance to make your very own, following this recipe.
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You’ve seen it before. You’re walking along a trail or path, when all of a sudden - BAM - a mud puddle is taking up the entire width of it. What is the most Leave No Trace thing to do? Find out in this I Didn't Know That! article in collaboration with Leave No Trace.
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Why would I brush mud off my boots before hitting a dirt trail? Brushing you boots before a hike can help prevent the spread of invasive species.
Yellowstone National Park
Mud Volcano Trailhead
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The Mud Volcano area has many mudpots and hillsides strewn with trees cooked by steam. The hydrothermal features here are some of the most acidic in the park. Mud Volcano is near the greatest uplift and sinking of the Yellowstone Caldera floor. Many faults converge here and earthquakes are common.Approximately 0.6 mile (1 km) loop trail. The clockwise route is less steep than the counterclockwise route. Start at the south trailhead for a more gradual incline up the hillside.
Yellowstone National Park
Mud Volcano
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Yellowstone National Park
Mud Geyser
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Yellowstone National Park
Mud Caldron
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Tumacácori National Historical Park
Melhok Ki (ocotillo and mud house)
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The O'odham word for house is "ki" (kee). Melhok (pronounced moo' ro) is the word for the plant known in Spanish and English as "ocotillo." The particular structure that you see here is a modern construction of a traditional O'odham dwelling, made of mesquite timbers, ocotillo sticks, and mud.
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Marsh Boardwalk
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Leave the tree line near Dungeness and head onto the marsh boardwalk on your way to the beach. Just a short walk from the historic district, the marsh boardwalk provides great wildlife-viewing opportunities. Manatees can be seen feeding on the marsh grasses around high tide during the summer. Wading shorebirds probe the mud flats in search of crabs and small fish. An American alligator sighting isn't out of the question either.
Yellowstone National Park
Artists Paintpots Trail
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This is a one-mile (1.6 km) trail that enters a partially burned lodgepole pine forest, then winds across a wet meadow on a boardwalk. This trail is a short loop. The hydrothermal area has colorful hot springs, mudpots, and small geysers. Watch out for flying mud. Stay on the trail and boardwalks. AccessibilityThe trail is relatively flat from the parking lot to the hydrothermal features. The trail is over bare ground. There is a mixture of boardwalks and bare ground trails
American Battlefield Protection Program
A Vortex of Artillery, Mud, and Rain: Working to Preserve Fort Mifflin and its Defender’s 2-Month Duel with the Royal Navy
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With the support of an ABPP Preservation Planning Grant, the University of Pennsylvania will conduct a three-phased archeological field survey of Fort Mifflin, with the goal of using the survey data to reassess current site conditions and develop a long-term preservation plan for the Fort.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Drakesville, Iowa
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Drakesville, Iowa is a city along the Mormon Pioneer trail that is full of trail history. The city is at the beginning of the route used by the vast majority of Mormon Pioneers to cross Iowa. The use of the trail near Drakesville started in 1846, immediately after the vanguard, Brigham Young-led companies had started their treks. This route avoided a lot of the hardships such as the thick mud, rattlesnakes, and lack of roads that the vanguard companies had to endure.
Everglades National Park
Mud Lake Canoe Trail
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This trail is 7 miles round trip from Coot Bay Pond. Venture inland through the mangroves on this trail connecting the Buttonwood Canal, Coot Bay, Mud Lake, and Bear Lake. Birding is often good at Mud Lake. Accessible from the Bear Lake Trailhead (note Bear Lake Canoe Trail is Impassable) or Coot Bay Pond. Motors no allowed.
Grand Portage National Monument
Meadow on the Grand Portage
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During the 18th century fur trade, this was a grassy wetland. Today it is known as The Meadow. Many walked the trail in knee-deep mud, with only moccasins to protect their feet. Beaver activity in the area creates ponds and wet conditions, necessitating a boardwalk for contemporary portagers.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Sulphur Canyon
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Sulphur Springs contains volcanic features like sulfuric-acid hot springs, volcanic fumaroles and steaming mud-pots, and supports a range of “extremophile” algae and bacteria living in the high-temperature acidic pool and stream environments. Many of the geothermal features on the property are found nowhere else in New Mexico, and similar sites are very rare in the western United States.
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The Larkin House, a National Historic Landmark, is a two-story mud adobe brick home built during Monterey’s Mexican period by Thomas O. Larkin, a New England Yankee merchant who was highly successful and influential in early California politics.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Garden Grove - Trailside Historical Park
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The vanguard wagon train of Mormon Pioneers stopped on April 19, 1846 as weather conditions and axle deep mud prevented them from going any further. While waiting for things to change, the emigrants built a temporary way station called Garden Grove. Almost overnight, the Mormon pioneers dug wells, built houses, bridges, and fences, plowed and planted. Several hundred of them settled in to rest, heal, and prepare for the final push to the Rockies. If their crops were successfu
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
The Mud March
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In January 1863, one month after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, US Army of the Potomac Commander Ambrose Burnside attempted another offensive against Confederate forces. The hope of success was soon washed away by torrential rains, and the Union forces were dragged through the mud in what became one of the most infamous marches of the Civil War.
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Hooker Takes Command
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In January 1863, after the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and failed Mud March, US Army of the Potomac Commander Ambrose Burnside was replaces by the ambitious and confident Major General Joseph Hooker.
Stones River National Battlefield
Auto Tour Stop 1 - Eve of Battle
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On December 30, 1862, the Union Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General William S. Rosecrans, arrived at Murfreesboro. Troops occupied this area along McFadden’s Lane (called Van Cleve Lane today). As night fell, soldiers struggled to sleep in the freezing mud without campfires, knowing a major battle was imminent. For thousands, that night would be their last.