Midwest Region
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Iowa
- Not yet: Effigy Mounds National Monument
- Visited: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Illinois
- Visited: Lincoln Home National Historic Site
- Visited: Pullman National Monument
Indiana
- Visited: George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
- Visited: Indiana Dunes National Park
- Not yet: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Kansas
- Visited: Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
- Visited: Fort Larned National Historic Site
- Visited: Fort Scott National Historic Site
- Visited: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
- Visited: Nicodemus National Historic Site
Michigan
- Not yet: Isle Royale National Park
- Visited: Keweenaw National Historical Park
- Not yet: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- Not yet: River Raisin National Battlefield Park
- Not yet: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Minnesota
- Visited: Grand Portage National Historical Site
- Not yet: Mississippi National River & Recreation Area
- Visited: Pipestone National Monument
- Visited: Voyageurs National Park
Missouri
- Visited: George Washington Carver National Monument
- Not yet: Harry S Truman National Historic Site
- Visited: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
- Visited: Ozark National Scenic Riverways
- Not yet: Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
- Visited: Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield
Nebraska
- Not yet: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
- Visited: Homestead National Historical Park
- Not yet: Missouri National Recreational River
- Visited: Niobrara National Scenic River
- Visited: Scotts Bluff National Monument
- Visited: Pony Express National Historic Trail
Ohio
- Not yet: Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
- Not yet: Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Visited: Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
- Visited: First Ladies National Historic Site
- Not yet: Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
- Visited: James A. Garfield National Historic Site
- Visited: Perry’s Victory & International Peace Memorial
- Not yet: William Howard Taft National Historic Site
Wisconsin
- Visited: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
- Not yet: St. Croix National Scenic Riverway
Recent Posts
Pipestone National Monument
During our 1995 cross-country road trip, our route carried us through a part of Minnesota, where we stopped at one of the most remarkable sites: Pipestone National Monument. Here, the soft red stone, pipestone, has been quarried for centuries by Native people and carved into ceremonial pipes used in prayer and spiritual life. This is […]
Indiana Dunes National Park
On our cross-country family road trip in 1995, we stopped at the Indiana Dunes National Park. The massive sand dunes stretch along the southern shore of Lake Michigan and they are interwoven with wetlands and beaches. The dunes were formed over thousands of years as glaciers retreated in the wind and water shaped the sand into ridges […]
Pullman National Monument
While teaching in Chicago in 2018, we took a trip to Pullman National Monument, a relatively new addition to the National Park Service at the time. The Pullman community was a grand idea. It was created in the 1880s by George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Palace Car Company. His vision was to create a […]
