(91) Golden Spike National Historic Site

 

 Visited Together:

1. May 2019 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Historic Site
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Brigham City, UT
Link: NPS website
 

Passport Description: Completion of the world's first transcontinental railroad was celebrated here where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met on May 10, 1869, 690 miles east of Sacramento and 1,087 miles west of Omaha.

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Central Pacific Railroad's Engine, Jupiter, May 2019

(90) Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Midwest
Location: Harrison, Nebraska
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: During the 1880s, scientists rediscovered what the Lakota Sioux and others already knew about: 20-million-year-old bones, deposited in what many paleontologists believe is one of the best-preserved Miocene mammal sites in the world.

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Junior Ranger worksheet 2018

Junior Ranger Badges for OZL & CZL, July 2018

(89) Jewel Cave National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Monument 
Region: Rocky Mountain
Location: Custer, South Dakota
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: With more than 132 miles surveyed, Jewel Cave is recognized as the third longest cave in the world. Cave tours provide opportunities for viewing its wide variety of stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, frostwork, flowstone, boxwork, and hydromagnesite balloons.

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 Discovery Talk, June 2018

 Discovery Talk, June 2018

 Junior Ranger Badges for OZL & CZL, June 2018

Junior Ranger Patches for OZL & CZL, June 2018

(88) Scotts Bluff National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Midwest  
Location: Gering, Nebraska
Link: NPS website
 

Passport Description: A prominent natural landmark for emigrants on the Oregon Trail, this 3,000-acre National Monument protects Scotts Bluff, Mitchell Pass, and the adjacent prairie lands and the memory of westward expansion on the historic Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.

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Scotts Bluff 2018

(87) WWII Valor In The Pacific National Monument & USS Arizona Memorial (Now Pearl Harbor National Memorial)

 Visited Together:

1. April 2017 + OZL + CZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Western  
Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii  
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The Japanese surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor left the Pacific Fleet in smoldering heaps of broken, twisted steel. In hours, 2,390 people were dead, half of these casualties from the battleship Arizona. American's involvement in World War II began on this day.

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USS Arizona Memorial 2017

(86) Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Visited Together:

1. June 2016 + OZL & CZL

Type: National Historic Site
Region: Rocky Mountain
Location: La Junta, CO
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: William and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the originbal fort on this site in 1833 to trade with plains Indians and trappers. For much of its 16-year history, the fort was the only major permanent white settlement on the Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements.

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 Bent's Old Fort, June 2016

  Bent's Old Fort, June 2016

(85) Capulin Volcano National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2016 + OZL & CZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest  
Location: Capulin, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The first fiery explosions of molten rock happened here 60,000 years ago, when the rain of cooling cinders and four lava flows formed Capulin Volcano. This nearly perfectly shaped cinder cone is dramatic evidence of the volcanic processes that shaped northeastern New Mexico.

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 Capulin Crater, June 2016 

Hike Into Crater, June 2016

(84) Petroglyph National Monument

Visited Together:

1. May 2016 + OZL & CZL

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Link: NPS website
 

Passport Description: An estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers are protected here. Many of the images are recognizable as animals, people, brands and crosses; others are more complex - their meaning, possibly, understood only by the carver.

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 Visitor's Center, May 2016

 Petroglyph Hike, May 2016

(83) Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Visited Together:

1. November 2011

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Florissant, CO
Link: NPS website 

Passport Description: This beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds huge petrified redwoods and detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the valley. A lake formed, and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom compacted into layers of shale preserving the delicate organisms as fossils.

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 Petrified Forest Loop, November 2011

Big Stump, November 2011