D M asked:
My husband and I will be driving cross county in a few months and are interested in various locations to include in our vacation plans. We live in Ohio and will be heading west, pulling our small camper tentatively planning stops at Mount Rushmore, Zion and Yellowstone National Park. Please share with us places that you have visited and enjoyed. I look forward you hearing your suggestions. Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
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My husband and I will be driving cross county in a few months and are interested in various locations to include in our vacation plans. We live in Ohio and will be heading west, pulling our small camper tentatively planning stops at Mount Rushmore, Zion and Yellowstone National Park. Please share with us places that you have visited and enjoyed. I look forward you hearing your suggestions. Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
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I am not sure what your driving route is past Yellowstone - but I will name a few places if don’t want to come back the same way. Here we go - Olympic National Park - Specially the Rain Forest, waterfalls and along scenic DriveColumbia River around Portland, Redwood Forest, Monterey Bay Aquarium and kayak the Kelp Forest, Kings Canyon National Park, Sequia National Park, Anzaborrego National Park, Bryce Canyon, Glen Canyon, Of course - Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Crater of the Moon Park - Dinosaur National Park (I hope it’s still open!). The desinations take you into California, drive south, then head East from San Diego Region.
I am answering because i have done a lot of driving trip in this country like 10,000 mile drive vacations. I don’t do much of that any more.
The past 10 yrs I have been involved in a lot of scuba diving like my nickname says. If interested check out my website
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My advice is that you not try to see everything and spend more time in a few places. Zion is nice, for example, and you could spend a week there, and just up the road is Bryce, and the town of Escalante, Utah, gateway to the Grand Staircase Escalante, which is not a park but a National Monument. It is less crowded and less developed, but suitable for people with your camper in the state park. Go to the ranger station and get a map of hiking trails and you can spend a month there and never get tired of the great scenery. Get to know some folks in the state park campground to go with you.
If you are serious about a little hiking you can hike Paria Canyon (try google images for this) - an easy four or five day stroll, fabulous scenery.