National Park Adventures

A collection of 52 posts

RV Life Season 4

The Acadia itinerary: What to see and what to skip

Acadia was our second National Park visit of all time, and one of the easier to check off the list as New Englanders. We went in late September 2019 for a weekend getaway, back when we knew little about navigating national park visits. Since then, we have gone from national

RV Life Season 4

A Great Basin Birthday

We traveled America's Loneliest Road with a long-awaited destination in mind: Great Basin National Park. We initially thought we would take a winter trip to the park before landing ourselves in Utah for our axle appointment in March, but we ended up going to Utah early to

RV Life Season 4

The pin made us do it! Checking off Lassen Volcanic National Park

We have a unique way of tracking each National Park we visit. We don't do passport stamps or stickers. Instead, we collect pins and add them to a pin board, which we use as a decoration, first in our house, and now in our RV. I can'

RV Life Season 4

Dog-friendly Yosemite adventures

💡We're exploring Yosemite National Park! If you missed our last post, we hit the ground, rrr....climbing...with an epic hike to 2 waterfalls. We also found many reasons why Yosemite might just be our favorite National Park so far. See the post here. We were blown away

RV Life Season 4

Favorite national park? We might finally have our answer...

We often hear advice for full-time RVers to have some goals or a plan to help narrow down our travels. The United States is big, and we can't expect to see everything, nor would we necessarily want to. It's best to decide what we'

RV Life Season 4

Why RVing to Sequoia and Kings Canyon is so hard

When our travels this year brought us to central California, we thought long and hard about what destinations we'd want to include. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks had been on our bucket list for years, but we were hesitant to RV to them for a few reasons,

RV Life Season 4

We can't believe we almost skipped this!

We are officially into the "fly by the seat of our pants" portion of our travels! After finishing our Utah Redemption Tour, things have been a little touch and go. We've tentatively chosen to continue our travels out west while we line up more repair appointments

RV Life Season 4

The Utah Redemption Tour: Our Conclusion About Zion

💡We're finishing up our Utah Redemption Tour, and what an epic month it has been! If you need to catch up on the series, here's the link. We've already shared our first impressions of Zion National Park, and they weren't the best.

Utah Redemption Tour Series

The Utah Redemption Tour: An Unfinished Odyssey in the Zion Narrows

💡Our visit to Zion National Park started off on the wrong foot. We desperately needed to get back on track and start experiencing the world-renowned adventures that we had been looking forward to. Will we be able to get our footing? Read on to find out! Miss our last

Utah Redemption Tour Series

The Utah Redemption Tour: Chaos and Disrespect at Zion

💡We have arrived to our final stop on the Utah Redemption Tour! If you need to catch up on our series so far, read it here. We had made it to our 5th national park in Utah, and with bated breath waited to see if we had saved the best

RV Life Season 4

The Utah Redemption Tour: Hoodoo's There?!

I try to get into 2019 Nicole's mindset, planning this epic roadtrip that would cover so many of America's greatest wonders. I remember that when planning our itineraries for the Mighty 5, Bryce Canyon in particular called out to me. The photos are just extraordinary, of

RV Life Season 4

The Utah Redemption Tour: Is Capitol Reef the Least Mighty of the Mighty 5?

💡You know the drill. Subscribe to the blog for perks and post notifications. Catch up on our Utah Redemption Tour blog series. Capitol Reef felt completely different from the other two national parks we had visited so far in Utah. State route 24 runs straight through the park, and so

RV Life Season 4

The Utah Redemption Tour: The Largest Historic Orchard in a National Park

We had a "less redeeming" incident during our Utah Redemption Tour, but that wasn't about to stop us from enjoying our 3rd Utah national park, Capitol Reef. Driving through the park on our way to our dispersed camping site, we saw so many landmarks right from

Utah Redemption Tour Series

The Utah Redemption Tour: Skimming the Rim of Canyonlands

💡Come with us on our Utah Redemption Tour! We're finally experiencing the beauty and adventure of the state, tackling the Mighty 5 national parks and a whole lot of other amazing places. We're posting daily blogs where we share our stories, tips for visiting, campground reviews,

RV Life Season 4

The Utah Redemption Tour: Arches Adventures

💡We're finally experiencing Utah the way it's meant to be seen! Can we redeem Utah without getting hit by natural disasters, rig repairs, and surgeries? Stay tuned to find out! We're at our first stop of Arches National Park. Read the last post, where

Utah Redemption Tour Series

The Utah Redemption Tour: Introduction to Arches National Park

We certainly started our Utah Redemption Tour with a bang. We went straight to one of our most anticipated national parks. We're not alone. Arches National Park boasts over 1.5 million visitors annually on average, as people flock to see the densest concentration of natural stone arches

RV Life Season 4

We did White Sands wrong (and how you can do it right)

If you missed our last post, we hit 2 adjacent National Parks on back-to-back days. The actual plan, however, was to hit 3 National Parks 3 days in a row. Weather forced us to shift our plans. During our overnight stay at Guadalupe Mountains, a big windstorm blew

RV Life Season 4

Two days, two National Parks: Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains

When we delayed our Season 4 launch back on the road, we canceled all of our January bookings to give us some leeway. We'd stay flexible through the month, launching when we could, and booking campsites as we rolled along. However, we still had February reservations that we

RV Servicing

May-hem

On the first day of each month, we share a "one clip a day" video recap on Instagram and Facebook, along with a short caption to summarize the adventures had that month. On May 1, while sharing the April recap, I wrote about the polarizing craziness that was

RV Life Season 3

Is this National Park the perfect getaway?

We are National Park purists. We think that in order for the National Park Service (NPS) to categorize somewhere as a National Park (capital "N," capital "P"), that place needs to meet certain criteria. All national park sites in the US are special in their own

City Life

The Blitz East, Part 4: MO rain, MO problems

Our first time RVing through the Great Plains brought us some problems. We had many miles of high winds and dodging trucks that didn't know how to drive, park, or maneuver. Then, at our second campsite in Kansas, our truck got stuck in mud during the first big

National Park Adventures

Capturing celestial wonders

This post contains affiliate links. We may receive a small kickback for products purchased through our links. Thank you for supporting our travel blog! Anthony and I are both from metro areas outside major cities, so being in places where we could see lots of stars was a rare occurrence.

National Park Adventures

Turning dream into reality at Rocky Mountain National Park

Despite having a less-than-optimal day getting our trailer back, we were able to stick with our plan to head up to Rocky Mountain National Park, somewhere we had been looking forward to visiting for a very long time. Everything seemed extra precious there, probably because we weren'

Country Life

Going to Wind Cave...without going to Wind Cave

Before we left South Dakota, we had a decision to make. As you probably know, we try to make it a point to go to National Parks because we collect pins for our pin board - something we started doing before we hit the road. Wind Cave is right near the

Country Life

Badlands National Park: Half-Day Itinerary

We were set up in Wall, SD, at an RV park so we could get electricity. Our batteries were all but dead, and despite troubleshooting them to try and recharge them on shore power, we didn't trust them. We couldn't risk moving over to the Buffalo