Do you love history? Fishing? Waterfalls? Picnic areas with mountain views? The Clarks Fork River Valley along the Beartooth Highway offers each of these…from the same parking lot! Also the trailhead for the Flume Trail, the area has a small…
Vista Point on the Beartooth Highway
Vista Point, on the Beartooth Highway, is truly a great place to be. Especially if you’re coming from the east, this is your introduction to the Beartooth area, and it’s a great one! The views are spectacular—into the valley, across…
Mammoth Hot Springs: Should I Go?
Whether or not you want to visit Mammoth Hot Springs depends on a lot of things. First, if you’re looking for short, easy hikes, this is a good one: going over all of the boardwalks will likely take you less…
Rare History at Aladdin Tipple
Sometimes trips don’t go as planned. Sometimes even the best plans don’t work out. That’s what happened on a recent trip to the Northwest US. After a week of beautiful weather, it was raining – and the forecast said it…
Tower Falls
Usually I write about the best I’ve run across while traveling, but sometimes it’s good to include a few places I don’t recommend or only found marginally interesting. It’s not that I don’t recommend Tower Falls (and I’d highly recommend…
Jockey Hollow: Wick House and Soldiers’ Huts
As I’ve said many times before, history is something that I enjoy. I like going to places where I can see where history happened and get an idea of what these places look like and looked like when history was…
The Genesee Country Village & Museum
Last Saturday was Free Museum Day and guess where I went: Genesee Country Village & Museum! This living history village in western New York has over 45 houses, restored and supplied with period furniture and furnishings. It is well-staffed and…
Views of Lower Yellowstone Falls: Red Rock Point
Usually, the park maps and brochures at a given national park are really good. Most of the time you can just use the map to get around the park, from hiking to camping to deciding where to watch wildlife. This…
East River Esplanade…Cool “Hike” in NYC!
After we’d taken the Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan, we visited Castle Clinton. However, we really wanted to do something more before we took the ferry back to where we’d parked on Staten Island. And, oh, did we find something…
Castle Clinton: History in Manhatten
In my last post, I talked about taking the Staten Island Ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan. Once we got there, the question was, what were we going to do? We decided to take a short walk (less than ½…