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6/28/18

(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


6/5/16

(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

4/14/10

(74) Pecos National Historical Park


Visited Together:
  1. June 2009
Type: National Historical Park
Region: Southwest Region
Location: Pecos, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Pecos preserves 12,000 years of history, including the ancient pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites and the site of the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pas.

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Pecos, June 2009

 Pecos, June 2009

(66) Point Reyes National Seashore


Visited Together:
  1. December 2008
Type: National Seashore
Region: Western Region
Location: Point Reyes, CA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: A spectacularly scenic panorama of thunderous ocean breakers, open grasslands, bushy hillsides and forested ridges is home to nearly 50 species of land and marine mammals.

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Point Reyes, December 2008

 Point Reyes, December 2008

3/17/10

(52) Pinnacles National Monument (Now Pinnacles National Park)


Visited Together:
  1. March 2006
Type: National Monument
Region: Western Region
Location: Paicines, CA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Rising out of the chaparral-covered Gabilan Mountains are the spectacular remains of an ancient volcano. Massive monoliths, spires, sheer-walled canyons and talus passages define millions of years of erosion, faulting and tectonic plate movement.

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Pinnacles, March 2006

Pinnacles, March 2006

3/2/10

(7) Pipe Springs National Monument


Visited Together:
  1. August 2005
Type: National Monument
Region: Western
Location: Fredonia, AZ
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The Pipe Springs ranch was home to ancestral Puebloans and Kaibab Paiute Indians for at least 1,000 years. In the 1870s, Mormon pioneers built a fort over the main spring and established a cattle ranching operation.

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Ranch at Pipe Springs, August 2005