▼
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Heritage Museums & Gardens

›
   In addition to over 100 acres of gardens and walking trails, there are three very good small museums – one with changing exhibits, anoth...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Nickerson State Park

›
  Reservations are necessary in the summertime.( We lucked into a cancellation. ) There’s plenty of space between the sites but little unde...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Cape Cod National Seashore

›
  Cape Cod National Seashore encompasses 43,500 acres and has almost 49 miles of seashore. Most of the land is wild and undisturbed but th...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Museum of Connecticut History

›
   For a state that was colonized in the early 1600’s, this museum is surprisingly small. The walls of the beautiful large hall pictured ab...
2 comments:
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Eric Sloane Museum & Kent Iron Furnace

›
  Located on this site are three seemingly disconnected things, the reconstructed studio of artist, Eric Sloane; a large collection of hand ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Mills Norrie State Park

›
   Hyde Park and the national historic sites are just a few miles south of this park which makes it an ideal camping location when sightsee...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

›
  Fredrick Vanderbilt was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt and the son of William Henry Vanderbilt, the two richest men in the world. T...
5 comments:
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site

›
   Roosevelt is the only president ever elected to a third and then a forth term, which unfortunately he didn’t serve, dying of a cerebral ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Colton Point State Park - Pennsylvania Grand Canyon

›
  The valley doesn’t come anywhere near matching the real Grand Canyon but it’s still pretty impressive – 47 miles long and 800 feet deep a...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Buckaloons Recreation Area-Allegheny National Forest

›
  This is a nice little campground right off of US 6. Most of the sites in the larger loop have electricity. We stayed in the smaller non-e...