Want to explore some of the highlights of Alaska but don’t have a ton of time? Here’s the ultimate weekend in Alaska road trip itinerary! Alaska has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, succumbing to popular belief, I thought I would need at least a week to visit the Last Frontier. For a full-time accounting assistant with just two weeks of vacation a year, it didn’t look like this dream could become a reality. But with a few days set aside for a long weekend, I thought to myself, why not? We had been traveling in the US on weekends and holidays before. Why couldn’t we make Alaska happen?
Traveling never sounds boring because who does not like discovering new horizons of the world? Even the thought of traveling to a new country or city gets people excited. You experience breath-taking locations, crystal clear beaches, thrilling adventures, and much more. At the same time, picking a travel destination is never easy, especially when traveling with your family and kids. You have to choose a place where everyone can enjoy, which means recreational activities for kids and beautiful tourist attractions for you. It will be an incredible time…
Today, we’ve put together a list of the best free things to do in Charleston SC to help you stay on budget for your next trip. Aside from our hometown Atlanta, Charleston is my next favorite city in the South! We try to visit at least once a year since there’s always something new for us to see, do, and learn. The city is overflowing with history and the best part is many attractions are free to experience.
Want to discover 13 Stunningly Beautiful Places In America? I bet you haven’t heard about the northern part… From Castle Rock in Grove County Kansas to Watkins Glen State Park in New York, here are 13 Stunningly Beautiful Places In America you need to go visit.
There are beautiful places all across the USA from coast to coast however I think that you may want to see this video posted below that may very well open your eyes to a few more destinations that will take your breath away once you visit there in person.
Number 13 – Skadget Valley Tulip Fields from the northwest portion of the United States find this alluring wonder of Mother Nature inside the lush groves of Washington State. These luscious fields of tulip flowers grow along the Skadget River and there’s even a tulip festival held in this location each year in the spring time usually April 1st through the 30th.
This festival of flowers is said by many to be one of Washington’s largest outdoor festivals typically with nearly 1 million visitors. With hundreds, maybe thousands of individual tulips in all the colors of the rainbow, this place seems more like a dream than a destination making this place definitely worth checking out on your next road trip through America.
Number 12 – Garden of the Gods from Colorado Springs Colorado. This piece of gorgeous nearly untouched wilderness has many legends and folklore which surround it. The Native American UTE tribe is rumored to be responsible for the cryptic edgings found along the parks red rock walls as well as several carefully conceived fire rings which date back over 3,000 years.
This National Natural Landmark is set to be sacred ground by many Native American tribes. Some call this land the crossroads. Even the mightiest of native warriors would surrender their swords and quell their arrows upon entering the holy land. The Manitou Springs and inter-mountain trail, known as the Youth Pass are said to contain the most petroglyphs but few are able to decipher the stories which swell inside the ancient images.
Number 11 – The Painted Hills is part of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Located inside Wheeler County Oregon, these hills which appears to be painted by the gods are listed as one of the seven wonders of Oregon. The layers of lavish color ingrained into the bed the sprawling rock, were formed when the area was an ancient River floodplain. The black soil is lignite, which was a vegetable matter known for growing along the base of the floodplain. The great colors are comprised of mud, stone, silt stone and shale. The red is laterite. Soils formed through natural deposits inside the earth. There are fossils of early horses, camels, rhinoceros and many more bones trapped inside the stones to be found here. This land is a paleontologists dream world.
Number 10 – Sonoran Desert. Finally a desert. Now we’re talking. This gorgeous landmass covers a large portion of the southwestern United States and is well known as a serene place of quiet and stunning natural beauty. Here in this desert the stars shine like you’ve never seen. Sunsets are rumored to be beyond astounding. Haboobs monsoons, saguaros, joshua trees, organ pipe cactus and all those timid desert flowers which bloom in nearly every shade of the rainbow.The full desert spans about 260,000 square miles but the coniferous Arizona mountain forests are said to be the most ravishing to behold. Find over 60 species of mammals, 350 species of birds, 20 amphibian creatures, over 100 different kinds of native fish, over a thousand native types of beef and more than 2,000 native plant species.
Number 9 _ Gila cliff dwellings. Get ready we’re going subterranean for this next ravishing piece of American Beauty. This United States National Monument was established primarily to protect the Mogollon cliff dwellings which run along the Gila River in New Mexico. The 533 acre park is full of rivers, forests, animals, plants and all kinds of natural beauty. However the real attraction resides beneath those lush green fields and towering canyons of rocks. Over 750 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities frequented this favorite place especially the Magana Native Americans.
A plethora of ruins remains from this ancient culture deep inside the mountain stone. Archaeologists have unearthed 46 rooms from the five caves which make up the cliff dweller Canyon alone and those ruins are only the beginning. There’s a TJ ruin, the Witte Corral, the Three-Mile ruin, the Cosgrove ruins and so much more.
Number 8 – Monterey Bay. This Bay known as Monterey can be found in the northern end of California’s Central Coast and is rumored to contain one of the largest underwater canyons on the entire planet. Find this world under the sea off the coast of Moss Landing. Exactly in the very center of Monterey Bay, marine life here is set to be mind-blowing. Species includes sea otters harbor and elephant seals, bottlenose dolphins, sharks and humpback and killer whales just to name a very select few.
Kelp Pier is set to grow as tall as trees forming what some call the Kelp Forest. The water flows in crystal waves and if the devastatingly beautiful scenery isn’t enough for you, try out the Monterey Bay Aquarium which is same nearly the world over
Number 7 – Yellowstone. This National Park is huge, like really really huge. The whole park is nearly 3,500 square miles. This Park has everything nature has to offer. Lakes, forest, rivers, mountains, a geyser called Old Faithful, the Morning Glory pool, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the Grand Prismatic spring are just a few of the natural beauties which place this National Park on the map.
If you’re into archeology, there are over 1,000 archaeological sites. There’s also the largest super-volcano on the continent to be explored here, as well as hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles – some of which are endangered. Yellowstone Lake is one of the highest elevation lakes in North America.
Number 6 – Turnip Rock on Lake Huron. Lake Huron is one of America’s five Great Lakes. It comprises the easterly portion of Lake Michigan but the real beauty lives inside the lake near Port Austin. It is called Turnip Rock, eroded by watery waves over the course of thousands and thousands of years, is this freestanding rock. The popular outdoor destination is well known by locals for its scenic views and crystal-clear waters. You can only reach this coveted landmass by boat. Once there, climbing the rocky ledges reveal a stunning forest nearly untouched by time or filthy human hands. The geological formation is a lesser-known American beauty but still one of the best especially for those who thrive in the outdoors.
Number 5 – Castle Rock and Grove County. Eons ago, as the stories say… an ancient sea covered nearly all of the Midwest. Inside this lush Grove, found in Kansas, a maddening array of chalk deposits spanned nearly 11 miles and are said to be breathtakingly beautiful. There are limestone pillars which tower over the nearby Badlands of the Smoky Hills region but the big sensation here is Castle Rock. A landmark on the Butterfield Overland Dispatch route known by many as the Overland Trail. Castle rocks name hails from its resemblance to a castle rising above the Prairie. This place of natural divinity is one of the eight wonders of Kansas.
Number 4 – Yosemite Valley. From the lush groves which dwell inside the mountainous world of Northern California, comes this monumentally gorgeous National Park. Enter through the tunnel view. Take either of the hiking trail loops which stay within the valley and lead to the trailhead which forces visitors to travel upwards for some truly scenic wonders.
Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in all of North America. The valley is around eight miles long and nearly a full mile deep. Some of the best summits are rumored to be the Half Dome, Cathedral Rocks, Three Brothers and Elcapitan. There are over ten wondrous waterfalls endless mountain rocks, gorges and canyons as well as so many pine trees it’ll make your head spin.
Number 3 – Horseshoe Bend. This next place of intensive American beauty can be found in the bend of the Colorado River from the Arizona side. Pretty darn close to that illustrious world of rock known as the Grand Canyon. This formation of land is as you may have guessed in the shape of a horseshoe.
The bend is located approximately five miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. The hike for access is roughly one and a half miles and from what the stories say is well worth the effort. A magnificent overlook is from 4200 feet above sea level and allows for a view of nearly the entire span of the massive National State Park. The steep cliffs which rise above Horseshoe Bend come in a dazzling array of colors thanks to all those lovely minerals.
Number 2 – Watkins Glen State Park. This devastatingly beautiful glimpse into the splendor of Mother Nature can be found in Schuyler County New York, inside the Finger Lakes region. The centerpiece of this luxurious park of all things nature, is a 400 foot gorge cut through the mountainous rocks by Glen Creek which formed from melting glaciers. Rapids and waterfalls grow wild here.
The rocks are mostly soft shales with several layers of color-changing sandstone and limestone. There are three gorgeous trails to enter the cavern of the gorge. Indian trails takes you through the forest. Gorge trail follows closest to the stream and runs over the parks 19 waterfalls by way of stone bridges and over 800 stone steps. Finally there is the Finger Lakes Trail an 800 mile system of outdoor bliss.
Number 1 – Zion. This national park can be found in Utah. It spans nearly 230 square miles and is filled with astounding formations of canyons as well as lush forests and stunning wildlife. There are approximately 290 species of birds, seventy-five mammals including 20 distinct species of bats and 32 unique breeds of reptiles as well as oddles and oodles of plants.
The park is so immense it’s best to navigate through the four life zones. There’s a desert portion, the riparian world the woodland spaces and the coniferous forest. There are mountains to climb, canyons to explore, buttes to rest on, rivers to ride and natural arches to take your breath away. Truly a sight to behold and an entire world of outdoor beauty to explore. Zion is a definite must-see!
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If you didn’t know, the first Oktoberfest was first celebrated in Munich in 1810 in honor of Prince Ludwig’s marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The marriage celebration and royal festivities began on October 12, 1810, and lasted nearly a full week until October 17th concluding with a very anticipated and exciting horse race. The fields were renamed Theresienwiese, “Theres’a Fields” to honor the Crown Princess.
Why it’s not named Septemberfest. Have you ever wondered why does most Oktoberfest celebrations take place in September rather then in the month of October like the name implies? The answer is very logical and has to do with the cooler October weather in Germany during that time. The festival organizers eventually decided to start Oktoberfest weeks earlier towards the end of September to avoid the cool October weather, the common heavy October rains and also the late season harvesting concerns for local farmers.
I know firsthand how popular Oktoberfest celebrations are year to year across the United States and Canada because I am the original creator and publisher of the very popular brand GermanHeritageUSA that you may see online.
As a person of German Heritage myself, just over four years ago I started a facebook page dedicated to explore the impact of German Heritage related traditions, culture and history that German immigrants had on the shaping of America from coast to coast. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the effect was indeed far reaching.
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