

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Need a last-minute getaway this weekend? Think about a national park—or any federally managed public land. No entrance fees will be charged at any of them Saturday through Monday (Jan. 14-16), which is Martin Luther King Day. All other fees (campground fees, tour fees and other concession fees) remain in effect. In this mostly snow-free winter, here are the forecasts, subject to change, for Saturday based on projections from Weather.com or NOAA for 10 randomly selected national parks: Park ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on January 12, 2012 4:06 PM & Tagged entrance fees, fee-free weekend and national parks | permalink | Comments
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