(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

(69) Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Park
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Montrose, CO
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The Black Canyon of the Gunnison's unique and spectacular landscape was formed slowly by the action of water and rock scouring down through hard Proterozoic crystalline rock.

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Tomichi Point, June 2009

 Painted Wall View, June 2009

(65) Bandelier National Monument

Visited Together:

1. September 2008
2. February 2011

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

Passport Description: Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier also includes more than 23,000 acres of designated wilderness. The best-known archeological sites, in Frijoles Canyon, were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid 1500s.

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Bandelier, September 2008

 

Bandelier, September 2008

 

 

 Bandelier, September 2008

(48) Big Bend National Park

Visited Together:

1. November 2005

Type: National Park
Region: Southwest Region
Location: The big bend of the Rio Grande, TX
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: One of the largest and least visited of our national parks, Big Bend offers more than 801,000 acres at elevations that range from less than 2,000 feet along the Rio Grande to nearly 8,000 feet in the Chisos Mountains. Massive canyons, vast desert expanses, and the entire Chisos Mountain range await visitor exploration.

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 Chisos Mountains, November 2005

 

Sotol Vista Overlook, November 2005

 

 Looking for Santa Elena Canyon Trailhead, November 2005

(45) Big Cypress National Preserve

Visited Together:

1. October 2005
   

Type: National Preserve
Region: Southeast Region
Location: Ochopee, FL
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The first National Preserve in the National Park System, Big Cypress is a meeting place of temperate and tropical species - and a hotbed of biological diversity. The Preserve serves as a supply of fresh, clean water for the vital estuaries of the 10,000 islands near Everglades City.

(31) Badlands National Park

Visited Together:

1. September 2005

Type: National Park
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: southwestern, SD
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States make up the 244,000 acres of this park.

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 Badlands, September 2005

 Badlands, September 2005

(11) Bryce Canyon National Park

Visited Together:

1. August 2005
2. June 2009

Type: National Park
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Bryce Canyon, UT
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Erosion has shaped colorful Claron limestones, sandstones, and mudstones into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles, and mazes here. Collectively called "hoodoos," these colorful and whimsical formations stand in horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters along the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.

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 Bryce Point, August 2005

 

Bryce Point, August 2005

  

Rainbow Point, June 2009

 

 Rainbow Point, June 2009