Southeast Region
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Alabama
- Not yet: Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
- Not yet: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
- Not yet: Little River Canyon National Preserve
- Visited: Russell Cave National Monument
- Not yet: Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
- Visited: Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
- Visited: Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
Florida
- Visited: Big Cypress National Preserve
- Visited: Biscayne National Park
- Not yet: Canaveral National Seashore
- Not yet: Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
- Visited: De Soto National Memorial
- Visited: Dry Tortugas National Park
- Visited: Everglades National Park
- Not yet: Fort Caroline National Memorial
- Not yet: Fort Matanzas National Monument
- Not yet: Gulf Islands National Seashore
- Visited: Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve
Georgia
- Not yet: Andersonville National Historic Site
- Visited: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
- Visited: Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
- Visited: Cumberland Island National Seashore
- Not yet: Fort Frederica National Monument
- Visited: Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Not yet: Jimmy Carter National Historical Park
- Visited: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
- Visited: Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
- Visited: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
- Visited: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park - Ebenezer Baptist Church
Kentucky
- Visited: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
- Visited: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
- Visited: Mammoth Cave National Park
Mississippi
- Visited: Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
- Not yet: Gulf Islands National Seashore
- Not yet: Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
- Visited: Natchez National Historical Park
- Visited: Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail
- Visited: Tupelo National Battlefield
- Not yet: Vicksburg National Military Park
North Carolina
- Not yet: Blue Ridge Parkway
- Visited: Cape Hatteras National Seashore
- Visited: Cape Lookout National Seashore
- Visited: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
- Visited: Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
- Visited: Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
- Not yet: Moores Creek National Battlefield
- Visited: Wright Brothers National Memorial
Puerto Rico
- Visited: San Juan National Historic Site
South Carolina
- Visited: Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
- Visited: Congaree National Park
- Visited: Cowpens National Battlefield
- Visited: Fort Sumter
- Visited: Kings Mountain National Military Park
- Visited: Ninety Six National Historic Site
- Not yet: Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Tennessee
- Visited: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
- Not yet: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
- Visited: Fort Donelson National Battlefield
- Visited: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Not yet: Manhattan Project National Historical Park
- Visited: Obed Wild & Scenic River
- Visited: Shiloh National Military Park
- Visited: Stones River National Battlefield
U.S. Virgin Islands
- Visited: Buck Island Reef National Monument
- Visited: Christiansted National Historic Site
- Visited: Salt River Bay National Historical Park
- Visited: Virgin Islands National Park
- Not yet: Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
Recent Posts
Cowpens National Battlefield
A visit to Cowpens National Battlefield is a chance to stand on the ground where an important American victory of the Revolutionary War took place. While the battlefield tells the story of military strategy, this reconstructed log cabin helps visitors understand the everyday lives of the people who called the Carolina backcountry home in the late eighteenth […]
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
A visit to the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site is an opportunity to explore one of the most important educational institutions in American history. Established as a National Historic Site in 1974, the park preserves a portion of the original Tuskegee Institute campus and the legacy of Booker T. Washington, whose vision helped transform educational opportunities for […]
Buck Island Reef National Monument
Another birthday and family history vacation was spent on Saint Croix exploring Buck Island Reef National Monument. Like many of our family trips, the destination combined celebration, adventure and another opportunity to experience one of the unique places preserved within the National Park System. Buck Island is unlike many national parks we have visited over the years. This […]
Everglades National Park
The Everglades National Park is such a massive and unique national park that each visit feels like exploring an entirely different landscape. Spanning more than 1.5 million acres, it protects one of the largest subtropical wilderness areas in the United States and became a national park in 1947 under President Harry S. Truman. The Everglades were protected […]
Natchez National Historical Park
This is Melrose, one of the centerpiece homes within Natchez National Historical Park in Natchez, and it reflects another chapter of American history. Built in the 1840s, Melrose is a classical example of the Greek Revival style, with its columns and symmetry. What sets it apart is not just the architecture, but the way the […]
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is another special national park, one that holds some of my fondest memories. It was here that Marty and I traveled for our first honeymoon, after our student wedding while still at Life University. I have visited again since then, but it is that first trip, exploring this beautiful area […]
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument is just outside of Savannah, GA and was once considered nearly impenetrable, a masterpiece of early American coastal defense. Construction of Fort Pulaski began in 1829 as part of the United States Third System of fortifications, designed to protect the nation’s coastline following the War of 1812. It was named after Casimir Pulaski, a Polish […]
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park preserves the early beginnings of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky. On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room cabin. The cabin was built of native hardwood logs and chinked with local clay. It measured 16 by 18 feet and was heated by a tone lined fireplace. […]
Fort Sumter
In the harbor of Charleston stands a place where the course of American history changed in a single moment: Fort Sumter. Built after the War of 1812 as part of a coastal defense system, the fort was still unfinished when tenstions between North and South reached their breaking point. By early 1861, South Carolina had […]
Congaree National Park
Located just outside Columbia, South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects one of the largest remaining tracts of old growth bottomland hardwood forest in the United States. This is a floodplain, shaped by the seasonal rise and fall of the Congaree River, which brings nutrients into the soil and allows the trees here to grow exceptionally tall. These […]
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
At the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, located at the intersection of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, high atop Cumberland Mountain sits the Hensley Settlement, a restored early 20th century mountain community. To understand this place, you first must understand the Cumberland Gap itself. The gap is a natural pass through the Appalachian Mountains, one of the few […]
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
We have visited Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park many times over the years, and each visit unfolds a little differently. Originally, this area was established in 1980 as an Historic Site by Jimmy Carter. It was later redesignated as a National Historical Park in 2018, expanding its recognition and preserving the broader legacy of Dr […]
