Here is an excerpt from the official website of Custer State Park: “Encompassing 71,000 acres in the Black Hills, Custer State Park is home to abundant wildlife and adventure; camping, hiking, biking, swimming, fishing, or relaxing, there’s something here for everyone.”
And the park adjoins Mount Rushmore!
Voilà—Blessing South Dakota.
Music by Lydiane Benard - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
Little figures climb a dark surface, and all around, the sun dries the mud, or the rain caresses the cliffs, or both at the same time. The buttes and the mesas pop up the land, and the rivers meet and shape the canyons, shaping the Canyonlands National Park. Marks show our ancestors stood there, as the presence of the little climbers populates the skin of a cliff modern scholars named “Newspaper Rock”, proclaimed it a State Historical Monument. The climbers build a mysterious wall around miniatures, around small modern guest .
(Captions from the 2015 trip)
Music by Lydiane Benard - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
Arches National Park is a giant-undulating sandbox in which a very patient God had asked the winds to carve as many as possible rare-true masterpieces of art for the joyful wonder of human eyes.
Music by Jared Benson - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
A pet-friendly place. Very friendly!
"A National Monument used as a perennial water source alongside historic forts, gardens and ridge trails."
GPS: 36.86325182109289, -112.73934556188667
Music by Jared Benson - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
In the Bryce Canyon of southwestern Utah, the land whispers, “We are a family of hoodoos, natural sculptures, creations of a God who wanted you to be able to brush the museum of Earth’s beauty. Your God is an impish artist.” (Captions from the 2015 trip)
Music by Jared Benson - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
In the USA, the most bizarre uncivilized zone full of zigzag roads buzzes with a no less bizarre blazed name: ZION.
Music by Lydiane Benard - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
Robert Zemekis filmed the introduction of his wonderful “Romancing the Stone” (1984) at the Snow Canyon State Park. Voilà.
Music by Ariel Blumenthal - In The Hat Publishing.
“Erotic horizon!” agreed the 17th Century French fur trappers upon discovering the three tallest peaks of a majestic mountain range, that one of the men hastened to baptize as “Les Trois Tetons,” and the extent of which became the body of the National Park "Grand Teton," or “Great Nipple”—Sacré français! (Captions from the 2015 trip)
Music by Henry Chowmix - Henry Chowmix Publishing.
Hey, if you stop at the Schwabacher Landing place, please get a little hike from the parking lot, and do not miss the tremendous Beaver Dam Sunrise point.
Music by Ron Komie - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
On the West flank of Yellowstone National Park, in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest of Idaho, the world’s most giant playground for rainbow trouts surge, Big Springs, which is the headwaters of Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, which is also a “first-magnitude” spring that produces over 120 million gallons of water each day, at a constant temperature of 52 degrees, and forsooth, Big Springs which is your place to be full of the joys of spring—no pun.
Music by Jared Benson - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. —Sitting Bull
Music byBrian Keane.
Jaxie smelled bisons for the first time at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, in North Dakota.
Music by Jared Benson - Sonic Desktop Publishing.
Heading West again . . . A first day that did suck!
Music by Ron Komie - Sonic Desktop Publishing.