Mid-Atlantic Region
Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware.
Delaware
- Visited: First State National Historical Park
Maryland
- Visited: Antietam
- Visited: Assateague Island National Seashore
- Visited: Catoctin Mountain Park
- Not yet: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
- Visited: Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Not yet: Fort Foote Park
- Visited: Fort McHenry National Historic Site
- Not yet: Greenbelt Park
- Visited: Hampton National Historic Site
- Visited: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park
- Visited: Monocacy National Battlefield
- Not yet: Piscataway Park
- Visited: Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail
- Visited: Thomas Stone National Historic Site
New Jersey
- Visited: Gateway National Recreation Area / Sandy Hook Lighthouse
- Visited: Great Egg Harbor National Wild and Scenic River
- Visited: Morristown National Historical Park
- Visited: Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park
- Not yet: Pinelands National Reserve
- Visited: Thomas Edison National Historical Park
- Visited: Thomas Edison NHP - Black Maria Studio
Pennsylvania
- Visited: Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
- Visited: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
- Visited: Edgar Allan Pоe National Historic Site
- Visited: Eisenhower National Historic Site
- Visited: Flight 93 National Memorial
- Visited: Fort Necessity National Battlefield
- Visited: Friendship Hill National Historic Site
- Visited: Gettysburg National Military Park
- Visited: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
- Visited: Independence National Historical Park
- Visited: Johnstown Flood National Memorial
- Visited: Steamtown National Historic Site
- Visited: Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Historical Park
- Visited: Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River
- Visited: Valley Forge National Historical Park
- Visited: The Soldiers' Huts - Valley Forge National Historical Park
Virginia
- Visited: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
- Visited: Arlington House, Robert E. Lee Memorial
- Visited: Booker T. Washington National Monument
- Visited: Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
- Not yet: Colonial National Historical Park
- Not yet: Fort Monroe National Monument
- Visited: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
- Visited: George Washington Birthplace National Monument
- Visited: George Washington Memorial Parkway
- Visited: Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
- Visited: Manassas National Battlefield Park
- Visited: Petersburg National Battlefield
- Visited: Prince William Forest Park
- Visited: Richmond National Battlefield Park
- Visited: Shenandoah National Park
- Not yet: Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
- Visited: Manassas National Battlefield Park - Stonewall Jackson Monument
West Virginia
- Visited: Appalachian National Scenic Trail
- Not yet: Bluestone National Scenic River
- Not yet: Gauley River National Recreation Area
- Visited: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
- Visited: New River Gorge National Park & Preserve
Recent Posts
Manassas National Battlefield Park – Stonewall Jackson Monument
On Henry Hill at Manassas National Battlefield Park, a bronze horse and rider rise above a broad stone pedestal. The monument depicts Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Jackson and commemorates his role in the First Battle of Manassas, also known as the First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861. The inscription on the […]
Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park protects a beautiful section of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost range of the Appalachian Mountains. Forested ridges, rocky summits, waterfalls and deep valleys create a landscape that changes with the seasons and stretches toward the Shenandoah Valley in the west and the Virginia Piedmont in the east. Skyline Drive follows the […]
Monocacy National Battlefield
On July 9, 1864, Union and Confederate forces met along the Monocacy River near Frederick, Maryland. The battle formed part of the third and final Confederate invasion of the North. Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early hoped to threaten Washington, D.C., draw Union troops away from Virginia and possibly influence the approaching presidential election. After learning […]
Prince William Forest Park
Prince William Forest Park preserves nearly 15,000 acres of woodland approximately thirty-five miles south of Washington, D.C. It is the largest protected green space in the Washington metropolitan region and contains the largest example of Piedmont Forest managed by the National Park Service. Beneath its canopy, Quantico Creek and its tributaries flow through a landscape […]
Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River
Beginning as little more than a trickle near Berlin, New Jersey, the Great Egg Harbor River gradually gathers the waters of seventeen tributaries as it winds through the forests and wetlands of the Pine Barrens. Along the way, the narrow stream becomes a broad tidal river before reaching Great Egg Harbor Bay and the Atlantic […]
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area protects approximately 40 miles of the Middle Delaware River and nearly 70,000 acres along its Pennsylvania and New Jersey shores. Forested mountains rise above the river as it passes between ridges, creating the dramatic opening known as the Delaware Water Gap. Waterfalls, ravines, wooded trails, and historic communities are […]
Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail
Some National Park units are defined by a single destination. The Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail is different. Rather than leading visitors to one landmark, it connects hundreds of miles of landscapes, historic sites, and communities linked by one of America’s most important rivers. It is a journey through both nature and history, following routes […]
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
Some places become historic because of a single event. Others become important because of where they are. Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park in Virginia tells both stories. It preserves the site of one of the final major battles of the Civil War while also protecting one of the Shenandoah Valley’s finest historic […]
Thomas Stone National Historic Site
In 1770, Thomas Stone purchased more than 400 acres in Charles County, Maryland, and began creating a home for his young family. He and his wife, Margaret Brown Stone, had married only two years earlier, and Stone was building a promising career as a lawyer. The property was known as Haberdeventure, a name generally interpreted […]
Manassas National Battlefield Park
The peaceful countryside preserved today at Manassas National Battlefield Park was the scene of two major Civil War battles. The First Battle of Manassas, or Bull Run, was fought here on July 21, 1861, and the armies returned for the much larger Second Battle of Manassas from August 28–30, 1862. Confederate forces prevailed in both […]
Flight 93 National Memorial
I visited the Flight 93 site when the memorial was still in its early stages. There was very little there compared with the national memorial that has since been created. In some ways, that sparseness made the experience even more poignant. There were few distractions from the landscape itself and from the events that had […]
The Soldiers’ Huts – Valley Forge National Historical Park
Walking through the reconstructed encampment at Valley Forge offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the Continental soldiers who spent six difficult months here during the winter of 1777–1778. These humble log huts became their homes as they struggled against cold, hunger, disease, and uncertainty. Each hut measured only about sixteen feet by fourteen […]
