

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... ...
Name the only state that does not include a unit of the National Park Service. Vermont? New Hampshire? Nope, both have 2, according to this NPS find-a-site locator. Rhode Island? It has 3, same as Connecticut and Indiana. The 68 square miles of the District of Columbia? Whoa, guess again; D.C. has 34 sites, more than any state. The top 3? Virginia (33), California (31) and New York (28). Even Guam, Puerto Rico and American Samoa have NPS representation. Who got left out? The goose egg goes to ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on March 16, 2011 6:36 PM & Tagged Antietam, Brices Cross Roads, Delaware, Delaware National Scenic River, Delaware Water Gap, Gettysburg, Grand Canyon, Tuskegee Airmen NHS, national parks and yellowstone | permalink | Comments
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