Trip: 1

(Home from Iowa)

Visited from Aug 22, 2021 to Aug 28, 2021

(Group 1)

In 30 years of living around Cincinnati, I never visited the William Howard Taft National Historic Site located there. I made it one of the first I visited on my grand tour. A last-minute addition to this trip was the Gauley River National Recreation Area since it was under 30 minutes from New River Gorge National Park. This trip also took in Congaree National Park, one I did not know even though it has been a park for 20 years. A great first trip, overall.

Read my blog entry about this trip.

Park units visited during this trip

Click on any of the parks listed below to see the page specific to that park.

The park page will have my comments about the site, photos and links to both the NPS official page and my blog entry for the park.

The interactive map in the top right of this page shows the location of each unit. You can zoom in and move around on the map. The rectangle icon in the top right will expand the map to full screen. Clicking on any unit in the map will open a small information window. The map and icons on it are based on the same information found in the Google Earth KML files, which you can create and download from the Home page.

• Aug 22, 2021: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site    (West Branch, IA)
• Aug 23, 2021: William Howard Taft National Historic Site    (Cincinnati, OH)
• Aug 23, 2021: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park    (Chillicothe, OH)
• Aug 26, 2021: Gauley River National Recreation Area    (Summersville, WV)
• Aug 26, 2021: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve    (Fayetteville, WV)
• Aug 27, 2021: Congaree National Park    (Hopkins, SC)

Other parks visited during this trip

The places listed below are not part of the National Park Service's official 431 sites, but were visited during this trip.
Click on a line to see more information about that park along with a link to the park's official web page.

• Nov 15, 2024: Hocking Hills State Park    (Logan, OH)