(70) Mesa Verde National Park

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Park
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Cortez and Mancos, CO
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: From 600 through 1300 AD, people lived and flourished in communities throughout the area, building elaborate stone villages in the sheltered alcoves of the canon walls. These cliff dwellings represent the last 75 to 100 years of occupation at Mesa Verde.

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  Cliff Palace, June 2009

  Cliff Palace, June 2009

(62) Muir Woods National Monument

Visited Together:

1. July 2007

Type: National Monument
Region: Western Region
Location: Mill Valley, CA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The forest along Redwood Creek in today's Muir Woods was spared from logging because it was hard to reach. Redwood Creek contained one of the San Francisco Bay Area's last uncut stands of old-growth redwood when Congressman William Kent bought 295 acres here for $45,000 in 1905.

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 Muir Woods, July 2007

  Muir Woods, July 2007

(30) Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Visited Together:

1. September 2005
2. June 2018 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Memorial
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Keystone, SD
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The sheer size of Gutzon Borglum's mountain carving on Mount Rushmore evokes a sense of awe in those who view it. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are immortalized in this granite cliff.

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 Mount Rushmore, September 2005

  Mount Rushmore, September 2005

  Lighting of Mount Rushmore, September 2005

Mount Rushmore, June 2018 

Mount Rushmore, June 2018

(22) Mount Rainier National Park

Visited Together:

1. September 2005
2. June 2019 + OZL + CZL + mZL

Type: National Park
Region: Pacific Northwest & Alaska Region
Location: Ashford, Enumclaw, Packwood, Wilkeson, WA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: At 14,410 feet high, Mount Rainer is an active volcano encased in more than 35 square miles of snow and ice. The mountain was born of fire and built up above the surrounding country by repeated eruptions an successive flows of lava.

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 Mount Rainier, September 2005

 Mount Rainier, September 2005

Mount Rainier, June 2019

Paradise, June 2019

(5) Mammoth Cave National Park

Visited Together:

1. September 2003

Type: National Park
Region: Southeast
Location: Mammoth Cave, KY
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The most extensive known cave system on earth lies beneath the sandstone ridges of this park's surface. More than 350 miles of passageways have been surveyed and mapped...but to this day, the water-formed caves largely remain a mystery.

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(3) Montezuma Castle National Monument

Visited Together:

1. September 2003

Type: National Monument
Region: Western
Location: Camp Verde, AZ
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Nestled into a limestone recess high above the flood plain of Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley stands one of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America. The five-story, 20-room cliff dwelling served as a "high-rise apartment building" for prehistoric Sinagua Indians over 600 years ago.

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Montezuma Castle, September 2003