Category: Camping
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Joseph Smith Birthplace – Sharon, Vermont
Today the 38.5 foot monument sits a few steps from the site of the New England home that Lucy Mack Smith gave birth to Joseph Smith. This monument was raised 100 years after Joseph Smith’s birth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints created the monument with inscriptions describing Joseph Smith’s life and his…
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Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower, has been known by several different names, some of those include: “Bear’s House” “Great Gray Horn” or “Brown Buffalo Horn”. Devils Tower rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River and can be seen from miles away.
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Martin’s Cove
In 1856, close to 1,500 people all part of the Martin and Willie handcart companies and the Hodgetts, Hunt, and Smoot wagon companies became stranded on the high plains of present-day Wyoming in the dead of winter. Most of these groups were traveling from Iowa to present-day Utah to join with many others of their…
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Nauvoo
People are still attracted to this wide bend on the Mississippi river for numerous reasons as outlined below. Nauvoo can be a place of great refuge and inspiration or a crowded tourist trap. It is what you make of it. This article of tips and insight, gleamed over decades of travel, to the City of…
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Hill Cumorah – Palmyra, New York
In geological terms this “hill” located in upstate New York is technically considered a drumlin: a low oval mound that is part of a group of little hills composed of compacted boulder clay that was molded by past glacial action
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Dinosaur National Monument
One of the most popular destination to stop within the National Monument is the Quarry Exhibit Hall as it displays many of the rare Fossil Bones discovered at this site.