US National Parks, Monuments, and Memorials

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National Parks

36 of 61 as of 10/25/2019

Name	Image	Location	Comments
Acadia	Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Acadia NP	Maine 44°21’N 68°13’W	Leaf-peeper trip in fall 1991. (Old negative scanned in …)
American Samoa		American Samoa 14°15″S 170°41’W
Arches	Double Arch, Arches	Utah 38°41’N 109°34’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Badlands		South Dakota 43°45’N 102°30’W	Visited here on the Bicycle Adventures Black Hills and Badlands bike tour, in Sept 2015.
Big Bend	Big Bend National Park, looking for Colima Warbler	Texas 29°15’N 103°15’W	Aug 2016 (quicky en route to Dallas); May 2017, Sky Islands of West Texas trip.
Biscayne		Florida 25°39’N 80°05’W
Black Canyon of the Gunnison		Colorado 38°34’N 107°43’W	August 2004.
Bryce Canyon	Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon	Utah 37°34’N 112°11’W	Several, most recent and best was driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Canyonlands	Liza in Canyonlands	Utah 38°12’N 109°56’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Capitol Reef	Capitol Reef scenic drive	Utah 38°12’N 111°10’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Carlsbad Caverns	Bat Cave en route to natural entrance, Carlsbad Caverns NP	New Mexico 32°10’N 104°26’W	Aug 2016, May 2017. Probably a long time ago too on a driving trip to Texas (1987 or 1988).
Channel Islands		California 34°01’N 119°25’W	Pelagic trip out of Ventura Harbor in the 1990s.
Congaree		South Carolina 33°47’N 80°47’W
Crater Lake		Oregon 42°56’N 122°06’W	Several (including photo from June 1990), last one being Sept 2017 after the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour. Very smoky from fires.
Cuyahoga Valley		Ohio 41°14’N 81°33’W
Death Valley		California, Nevada 36°14’N 116°49’W
Denali	Denali view from aerial tour	Alaska 63°20’N 150°30’W	June 1989. Took Alaska Railroad from Anchorage there and back.
Dry Tortugas		Florida 24°38’N 82°52’W
Everglades		Florida 25°19’N 80°56’W	Stopped here en route from Venezuela (birding) to New York (concert performance at Carnegie Hall with Mansfield Chamber Singers), 1993. We remember the “summit” sign that said 3 feet!
Gates of the Arctic		Alaska 67°47’N 153°18’W
Gateway Arch		Missouri 38°38’N 90°11’W
Glacier	View from Logan Pass, Glacier NP	Montana 48°48’N 114°00’W	Sept 2018 on our Glacier-Yellowstone-Grand Tetons trip.
Glacier Bay		Alaska 58°30’N 137°00’W
Grand Canyon	Liza at Shoshone Pt	Arizona 36°04’N 112°08’W	Several, but best was the rim-to-rim hike in 2010 with two nights down at Phantom Ranch.
Grand Teton	The Tetons	Wyoming 43°44’N 110°48’W	Sept 2018 on our Glacier-Yellowstone-Grand Tetons trip.
Great Basin	Wheeler Peak, Great Basin NP	Nevada 38°59’N 114°18’W	Aug 2017 en route to Bend for the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.
Great Sand Dunes		Colorado 37°44’N 105°31’W
Great Smoky Mountains		Tennessee, North Carolina 35°41’N 83°32’W
Guadalupe Mountains	Capitan Reef, Guadalupe Mtns National Park	Texas 31°55’N 104°52’W	Aug 2016, May 2017.
Haleakalā	Cycling down from the summit	Hawaii 20°43’N 156°10’W	Liza rode a bike down from the top! Dec 1993.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes		Hawaii 19°23’N 155°12’W	10th anniversary trip, Dec 1993.
Hot Springs	Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs NP	Arkansas 34°31’N 93°03’W	Sept 2019 with Liza’s mom Alpha.
Indiana Dunes		Indiana 41°39’12″N 87°03’09″W	Became a national park in 2019; we went back in the 1980s when it was a national lakeshore.
Isle Royale		Michigan 48°06’N 88°33’W
Joshua Tree	Joshua Tree NP	California 33°47’N 115°54’W	March 2017.
Katmai		Alaska 58°30’N 155°00’W
Kenai Fjords	Kenai Fjords while Liza was taking Dramamine	Alaska 59°55’N 149°39’W	June 1989.
Kings Canyon		California 36°48’N 118°33’W	A couple of camping trips in the 1980s…but no photographic evidence. 🙁
Kobuk Valley		Alaska 67°33’N 159°17’W
Lake Clark		Alaska 60°58’N 153°25’W
Lassen Volcanic		California 40°29’N 121°31’W
Mammoth Cave		Kentucky 37°11’N 86°06’W
Mesa Verde		Colorado 37°11’N 108°29’W	August 2004.
Mount Rainier		Washington 46°51’N 121°45’W
North Cascades		Washington 48°42’N 121°12’W
Olympic		Washington 47°58’N 123°30’W	Visited around 1990…at least the Hoh Rainforest. Haven’t been able to find any photos yet though. Same trip as Mount St. Helens perhaps.
Petrified Forest	Liza photographing Buddy Bison, Painted Desert	Arizona 35°04’N 109°47’W	Southwest driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick, Sept 2016.
Pinnacles	Bear Gulch Cave, Pinnacles NP	California 36°29’N 121°10’W	Aug 2017, following the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.
Redwood	Redwoods!	California 41°18’N 124°00’W	Aug 2017, following the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.
Rocky Mountain		Colorado 40°24’N 105°35’W
Saguaro		Arizona 32°15’N 110°30’W
Sequoia		California 36°26’N 118°41’W	Visited along with Kings Canyon in the 1980s…but no photographic evidence.
Shenandoah		Virginia 38°32’N 78°21’W
Theodore Roosevelt		North Dakota 46°58’N 103°27’W
Virgin Islands		United States Virgin Islands 18°20’N 64°44’W
Voyageurs		Minnesota 48°30’N 92°53’W
Wind Cave		South Dakota 43°34’N 103°29’W	Visited here on the Bicycle Adventures Black Hills and Badlands bike tour, in Sept 2015.
Wrangell St.Elias		Alaska 61°00’N 142°00’W
Yellowstone	Roosevelt Arch, Yellowstone	Wyoming, Montana, Idaho 44°36’N 110°30’W	1989, post-1988-fires. (The whole “Liza’s glasses fogged up” incident comes to mind…). More recently Sept 2018 on our Glacier-Yellowstone-Grand Tetons trip.
Yosemite		California 37°50’N 119°30’W	Our first trip together, back in 1982; the highlight was meeting Ansel Adams in the gift shop (and had two posters signed by him)!
Zion	On the trail at Zion	Utah 37°18’N 113°03’W	Oct 2016, driving trip for Conservation Lands Foundation conf in Las Vegas, NV. Also Aug 2017, before the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.

National Memorials

10 of 30 as of 10/25/2019

Name	Image	Location	Comments
Arkansas Post		Arkansas 34°01’N 91°21’W
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial		Virginia 38°52’52″N 77°04’23″W
Chamizal		Texas 31°46’N 106°27’W
Coronado		Arizona 31°20’N 110°15’W	Our home park!
De Soto		Florida 27°31’N 82°38’W
Federal Hall		New York 40°42’25″N 74°00’36 ‘W
Flight 93		Pennsylvania 40°03’18″N 78°54’04″W
Fort Caroline		Florida 30°23’10″N 81°29’53″W
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial		District of Columbia 38°52’59″N 77°02’35″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
General Grant		New York 40°48’47″N 73°57’47″W
Hamilton Grange		New York 40°49’16″N 73°56’49″W
Johnstown Flood		Pennsylvania 40°21’00″N 78°46’16″W
Korean War Veterans Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’17″N 77°02’53″W
Lincoln Boyhood		Indiana 38°06’47″N 86°59’46″W
Lincoln Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’20″N 77°03’00″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac		District of Columbia 38°52’37″N 77°03’00″W
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’10″N 77°02’38″W
Mount Rushmore	Iconic Mt Rushmore	South Dakota 43°52’44″N 103°27’32″W	Visited here on the Bicycle Adventures Black Hills and Badlands bike tour, in Sept 2015.
Pearl Harbor	USS Arizona berth, Pearl Harbor	Hawaii 21°22’N 157°57’W	Where the war started (battleship row) and ended (on the deck of the USS Missouri). Also toured the Bowfin submersible. Dec 1993.
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial		Ohio 41°39’14″N 82°48’40″W
Port Chicago Naval Magazine		California 38°03’22″N 122°01’48″W
Roger Williams		Rhode Island 41°49’52″N 71°24’40″W
Thaddeus Kosciuszko		Pennsylvania 39°56’35″N 75°08’49″W
Theodore Roosevelt Island		District of Columbia 38°53’49″N 77°03’50″W
Thomas Jefferson Memorial		District of Columbia 38°52’52″N 77°02’13″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’28″N 77°02’53″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
Washington Monument		District of Columbia 38°53’20″N 77°02’06″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
World War I Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’46″N 77°01’59″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
World War II Memorial		District of Columbia 38°53’20″N 77°02’24″W	Liza on a RAND work trip in the late 1990s.
Wright Brothers		North Carolina 36°00’50″N 75°40’05″W

National Monuments

30 of 129 as of 11/22/2019

Name	Image	Location	Comments
Admiralty Island		Alaska 57°38’N 134°21’W
African Burial Ground		New York 40°42’52″N 74°00’15″W
Agate Fossil Beds		Nebraska 42°24’58″N 103°43’41″W
Agua Fria	Agua Fria National Monument	Arizona 34°09’N 112°05’W	Oct 2019 on a AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Aleutian Islands World War II		Alaska 52°52’N 173°10’W
Alibates Flint Quarries		Texas 35°34’N 101°40’W
Aniakchak		Alaska 56°54’N 158°09’W
Aztec Ruins		New Mexico 36°50’N 107°00’W
Bandelier		New Mexico 35°47’N 106°16’W	Tried to go December 2018, but it was closed due to a government shutdown.
Basin and Range		Nevada 37°54’N 115°24’W
Bears Ears		Utah 37°38’N 109°52’W	Skirted past it in Sept 2016 and again in Oct 2019, driving trips with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality		District of Columbia 38°53’N 77°00’W
Berryessa Snow Mountain		California 39°13’N 122°46’W
Birmingham Civil Rights		Alabama 33°30’47″N 86°48’54″W
Booker T. Washington		Virginia 37°07’23″N 79°45’58″W
Browns Canyon		Colorado 38°36’54″N 106°03’32″W
Buck Island Reef		US Virgin Islands 17°47’N 64°37’W
Cabrillo		California 32°40’N 117°14’W
California Coastal		California 36°53’N 122°11’W
Camp Nelson Heritage		Kentucky 37°47’N 84°36’W
Canyon de Chelly		Arizona 36°08’N 109°28’W	August 2004. Sept 2016 on an AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Canyons of the Ancients		Colorado 37°22’N 109°00’W
Cape Krusenstern		Alaska 67°25’N 163°30’W
Capulin Volcano		New Mexico 36°47’N 103°58’W
Carrizo Plain		California 35°10’N 119°45’W
Casa Grande Ruins		Arizona 32°59’100N 111°32’W	Oct 2016, driving trip for Conservation Lands Foundation conf in Las Vegas, NV.
Cascade/Siskiyou		Oregon, California 42°05’N 122°28’W
Castillo de San Marcos		Florida 29°53’53″N 81°18’40″W
Castle Clinton		New York 40°42’13″N 74°01’01″W	Possibly went here when visiting Mark and Joanne Guralnick in 2012?
Castle Mountains		California 35°15’N 115°07’W
Cedar Breaks		Utah 37°38’N 112°51’W	Aug 2017, before the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.
César E. Chávez		California 35°13’38″N 118°33’41″W
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers		Ohio 39°42’26″N 83°53’25″W
Chimney Rock		Colorado 37°11’30″N 107°18’23″W
Chiricahua		Arizona 32°01’N 109°21’W	Driven here, bicycled…
Colorado		Colorado 39°02’N 108°41’W
Craters of the Moon		Idaho 43°25’N 113°31’W	Driving trip long ago, probably the trip to Pullman WA for a USC-WSU game. A lot of lava.
Devils Postpile		California 37°30’N 119°05’W
Devils Tower	Devil’s Tower	Wyoming 44°35’N 104°43’W	Visited here on the Bicycle Adventures Black Hills and Badlands bike tour, in Sept 2015. And adopted Buddy Bison here!
Dinosaur		Colorado, Utah 40°32’N 108°59’W
Effigy Mounds		Iowa 43°05’N 91°11’W
El Malpais	El Malpais National Monument	New Mexico 34°53’N 108°03’W	Dec 2018.
El Morro		New Mexico 35°02’N 108°21’W
Florissant Fossil Beds		Colorado 38°55’N 105°16’W
Fort Frederica		Georgia 31°13’26″N 81°23’35″W
Fort Matanzas		Florida 29°42’54″N 81°14’20″W
Fort McHenry		Maryland 39°15’47″N 76°34’44″W
Fort Monroe		Virginia 37°00’14″N 76°18’29″W
Fort Ord		California 36°38’21″N 121°44’07″W
Fort Pulaski		Georgia 32°01’37″N 80°53’24″W
Fort Stanwix		New York 43°13’05″N 75°27’32″W
Fort Union		New Mexico 35°55’30″N 105°00’32″W
Fossil Butte	Fossil Butte NM	Wyoming 41°52’N 110°46’W	Sept 2018 on our Glacier-Yellowstone-Grand Tetons trip.
Freedom Riders		Alabama 33°39’29″N 85°49’52″W
George Washington Birthplace		Virginia 38°11’10″N 76°55’50″W
George Washington Carver		Missouri 36°59’10″N 94°21’14″W
Giant Sequoia		California 36°02’N 118°30’W
Gila Cliff Dwellings		New Mexico 33°14’N 108°17’W	August 2004.
Gold Butte		Nevada 36°16’52″N 114°12’04″W
Governors Island		New York 40°41’28″N 74°00’58″W
Grand Canyon-Parashant		Arizona 36°24’N 113°42’W
Grand Portage		Minnesota 47°58’N 89°41’W
Grand Staircase-Escalante	Slot canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante	Utah 37°24’N 111°41’W	Aug 2017, before the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour. Also again in Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Hagerman Fossil Beds		Idaho 42°47’N 114°57’W
Hanford Reach		Washington 46°29’N 119°32’W
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad		Maryland
Hohokam Pima		Arizona 33°11’N 111°55’W
Homestead		Nebraska 40°17’06″N 96°49’19″W
Ironwood Forest	Ragged Top peak and beautiful Sonoran desert	Arizona 32°28’N 111°34’W	November 2019. Went in on Silverbell and out on Sasco Rd, which meant crossing the Santa Cruz River and slaloming through mud. 🙁
Jewel Cave		South Dakota 43°44’N 103°50’W
John Day Fossil Beds		Oregon 44°40’N 120°03’W
Jurassic		Utah 39°19’N 110°41’W
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks		New Mexico 35°40’N 106°25’W
Katahdin Woods and Waters		Maine 45°58’N 68°37’W
Hovenweep		Colorado, Utah 37°23’N 109°05’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Lava Beds		California 41°43’N 121°31’W
Little Bighorn Battlefield		Montana 45°34’N 107°26’W
Marianas Trench Marine		Northern Mariana Islands, Guam 20°N 145’E
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Military Working Dog Teams		Texas 29°23’24’N 98°37’01″W
Mill Springs Battlefield		Kentucky 37°04’N 84°44’W
Misty Fjords		Alaska 55°37’N 130°37’W
Mojave Trails		California 34°36’N 116°00’W
Montezuma Castle	Montezuma Castle National Monument	Arizona 34°37’N 111°50’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Mount St. Helens Volcanic	With Tom and Diane Mosher at Mt St Helens	Washington 46°14’N 122°11’W	June 1990. Likely wasn’t an official national monument at that time.
Muir Woods		California 37°53’N 122°35’W
Natural Bridges	Kachina Bridge, Natural Bridges Natl Monument	Utah 37°35’N 110°00’W	Sept 2016 on an AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Navajo	Robert at Navajo National Monument	Arizona 36°41’N 110°32’W	Driving trip Oct 2019 with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Newberry Volcanic		Oregon 43°41’N 121°15’W	Aug 2017, following the Bicycle Adventures Bend Breakaway cycling tour.
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine		Atlantic Ocean 40°24’N 68°00’W
Oregon Caves		Oregon 42°06’N 123°25’W
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks		New Mexico 32°18’N 106°33’W
Organ Pipe Cactus		Arizona 32°02’N 112°52’W	Went here and stayed in Ajo on way up to Prescott to see Bob and Pam Deichmeister.
Pacific Remote Islands Marine		US Minor Outlying Islands south-southwest of Hawaii 16°45’N 169°31’W
Papahānaumokuākea Marine		Hawaii, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands 25°42’N 171°44’W
Petroglyph	Piedras Marcadas, Petroglyph NM	New Mexico 35°10’N 106°46’W	Dec 2018.
Pipestone		Minnesota 44°01’N 96°20’W
Pipe Spring	Pipe Spring Natl Monument	Arizona 36°52’N 112°44’W	Oct 2016, driving trip for Conservation Lands Foundation conf in Las Vegas, NV.
Pompeys Pillar		Montana 45°59’24″N 108°00’04″W
Poverty Point		Louisiana 32°38’N 91°25’W
Prehistoric Trackways		New Mexico 32°21’N 106°54’W
President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home		District of Columbia 38°56’30″N 77°00’42″W
Pullman		Illinois 41°41’28″N 87°36’36″W
Rainbow Bridge		Utah 37°05’N 110°58’W
Río Grande del Norte		New Mexico 36°40’00″N 105°42’00″W
Rose Atoll Marine		American Samoa 14°33’S 168°32’W
Russell Cave		Alabama 34°58’N 85°48’W
Saint Francis Dam Disaster		California 34°33’N 118°31’W
Salinas Pueblo Missions	Salinas Pueblo Missions – Quarai	New Mexico 34°16’N 106°04’W	Dec 2018.
San Gabriel Mountains		California 34°13’N 118°04’W
San Juan Islands		Washington 48°32’N 123°02’W
Sand to Snow		California 34°05’N 116°41’W
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains		California 33°48’N 116°42’W
Scotts Bluff		Nebraska 41°50’N 103°42’W
Sonoran Desert		Arizona 33°00’N 112°28’W
Statue of Liberty		New York, New Jersey 40°41’N 74°02’W	Sailed around it on a harbor tour, but didn’t go in, in 1998 or 1999
Stonewall		New York 40°44’01″N 74°00’08″W
Sunset Crater Volcano	Robert at Sunset Crater Natl Monument	Arizona 35°22’N 111°30’W	Sept 2016 on an AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Timpanogos Cave		Utah 40°26’N 111°43’W
Tonto		Arizona 33°39’N 111°05’W
Tule Lake		California 41°53’N 121°22’W
Tule Springs Fossil Beds		Nevada 36°19’N 115°16’W
Tuzigoot	Tuzigoot Natl Monument	Arizona 34°47’N 112°02’W	Sept 2016 on an AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Upper Missouri River Breaks		Montana 47°47’N 109°01’W
Vermilion Cliffs		Arizona 36°49’N 111°44’W	Multiple times…but most recently in Sept 2016, Oct 2019.
Virgin Islands Coral Reef		US Virgin Islands 18°19’N 64°43’W
Waco Mammoth		Texas 31°36’22″N 97°10’26″W
Walnut Canyon	At Walnut Cyn Natl Monument	Arizona 35°10’N 111°31’W	Oct 2016, driving trip for Conservation Lands Foundation conf in Las Vegas, NV.
White Sands		New Mexico 32°47’N 106°10’W	May 2017, Sky Islands of West Texas trip.
Wupatki	Liza & Joanne at Wupatki Natl Monument	Arizona 35°31’N 111°22’W	Sept 2016 on an AZ-UT driving trip with Mark and Joanne Guralnick.
Yucca House		Colorado 37°15’N 108°41’W

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