(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

(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

(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 

(82) Arches National Park

Visited Together:

1. May 2010
2. April 2014 + OZL

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

Passport Description: Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch. The extraordinary features of the park - including balanced rocks, fins and pinnacles - are highlighted by a striking environment of contrasting colors, landforms, and textures. 

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 Delicate Arch, April 2010

Owen's first visit to Arches, April 2014

 

Pine Tree Arch, April 2014

 Tunnel Arch, April 2014

(81) Canyonlands National Park

Visited Together:

1. May 2010
2. April 2014 + OZL

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

Passport Description: The Colorado River and its tributaries eroded this colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones into countless canyons, mesas and buttes. The Colorado and Green rivers divide the park into four districts.

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 The Needles, May 2010

 Owen's first visit to Canyonlands, May 2014

Buck Canyon Overlook, May 2014

 Grand View Point, May 2014

(80) Natural Bridges National Monument

 Visited Together:

1. May 2010

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Lake Powell, UT
Link: NPS website 

Passport Description: Natural Bridges protects some of the finest examples of ancient stone architecture in the Southwest. On a tree-covered mesa cut by deep sandstone canyons, three natural bridges formed where meandering streams eroded the canyon walls.

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 Sipapu Bridge, May 2010

 Trail to Horsecollar Ruins Overlook, May 2010

(79) Capitol Reef National Park

 Visited Together:

1. May 2010

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

Passport Description: The Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile long wrinkle, or "monocline" in the earth's crust, extends from nearby Thousand Lakes Mountain to the Colorado River (now Lake Powell). The park was established to protect this grand and colorful geologic feature, as well as the unique historical and cultural history found in the area.

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Historic Gifford Homestead, May 2010

 

 Capitol Gorge, May 2010