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The Most Unique Park In The Usa
he word unique will have • Wildlife
different meaning to • Rafting
different people, and not • Fishing
all will agree on which park is • Hunting
the most unique. I have found one • Canyoneering
park that just struck me as • Photography
unique. I wonder if you will • Water sports and boating
agree. • Caves and exploring
Visiting the National Parks, After all these years of
National Monuments, Wilderness traveling and exploring the
areas and State Parks in the hardest part always seems to be
United States can be an the research time. I’ll visit
adventure. I’ve been visiting, website after website finding the
climbing, hiking and taking parks or areas of interest that I
photographs in these parks for want to explore, then onto
years. Certainly, I could say researching where I’m going to
that almost every park is unique. stay. Then to the task of mapping
I am an outdoors type of person out the travel time details to
and enjoy the fresh air, sunshine make the trek comfortable as I go
and incredible views. These parks from the first location to the
are wonderful for people who next activity, to the
enjoy these types of activities: accommodations and so on. To
solve this inefficiency a group
• Hiking of us outdoor enthusiasts have
• Camping been creating a website with all
• Cycling the National Parks, National
• ATV Monuments, State Parks and
• Scenic Drives Wilderness Areas all located in
• Horseback Riding one forum message board for
adventure travelers to read, to be the most unique. Which park
share and post their trip do you think is most unique?
reports. I invite you to visit.
We bought the web domain name All those hours of loading data
adventurezonetours and have been in the adventurezonetours message
busy loading basic data for each boards gave me a chance to see
location. Now it’s all in one parks, monuments and wilderness
place. areas in the USA, and some areas
I have not visited. One park
So, which park do you think is stood out as a bit unique to me.
the most unique? I have always It is in Michigan and I have not
just loved Glacier National Park visited it. I doubt that you have
in Montana and have been drawn visited it either! The park is a
back for visit after visit. But, state park called Meridian -
in the last couple of years I Baseline State Park. It is not
seem to be changing my mind. I’ve open to the public, so how could
been turned onto Zion National we have visited it? Here’s the
Park in Utah and the slot canyons link for information about this
of the southwest. Zion Canyon is state park. Check it out!
just awesome. I have also Meridan - Baseline State Park
recently taken my first journey
into the Grand Staircase So, I guess since this park is
Escalante National Monument also not open to the public, it has
known as GSENM. It was really struck me as very unique. Would
just a quick trip through the you agree?
monument on one of the remote
wilderness roads that crosses The Meridan – Baseline State Park
from near Kodachrome State Park is 88 acres and preserves a
to Southern Utah, near the marker that was used for the
Arizona border. It may turn out Michigan Survey. In general here
is what the marker preserves. James in 1609, at the time this
was the Northwest Territory. In
At the end of the Revolutionary 1787 a territory was established
War, there were only thirteen by congress in what is now
states. The territory of land Michigan. After a new territory
between the Appalachian Mountains grew to a population of 60,000
and the Mississippi River were in free citizens, it could petition
question. Congress to become a state. This
The new Continental Congress was new state could then have all the
asking these states to give up rights of the original 13 states.
any claims of ownership of these At that time a survey would
lands to the federal government. happen and thus, in 1815 two men
Virginia, Massachusetts, and were hired to establish
Connecticut all claimed large accurately the location of the
chunks of this land. A large base line and the principal
chunk of Michigan had been meridian which are preserved by
chartered to Virginia from King this marker.
About the Author:
Bob Therrien is a travel writer and has traveled all over North America. He currently operates the Outdoor Travel Message Boards website at AdventureZoneTOURS.com He invites you to visit, share, and post your outdoor recreation travel details.
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