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
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve
Georgia
- Not yet: Andersonville National Historic Site
- Visited: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
- Not yet: 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
Kentucky
- Visited: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
- Visited: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
- Not yet: Mammoth Cave National Park
Mississippi
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
- Not yet: Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: Kings Mountain National Military Park
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: Fort Donelson National Battlefield
- Visited: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Not yet: Manhattan Project National Historical Park
- Visited: Obed Wild & Scenic River
- Not yet: Shiloh National Military Park
- Not yet: Stones River National Battlefield
U.S. Virgin Islands
- Visited: Buck Island Reef National Monument
- Visited: Christiansted National Historic Site
- Not yet: Salt River Bay National Historical Park
- Visited: Virgin Islands National Park
- Not yet: Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
Recent Posts
Obed Wild & Scenic River
When I traveled through Tennessee, I found myself moving through the landscape of the Obed Wild and Scenic River. Unlike many places we visit and clearly arrive at, this was a landscape you enter without gates or formal entrances. At the Obed WSR there are miles of creeks and rivers. This remarkable river system came […]
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
In 2018, while traveling to Charleston for a wedding, I took a side trip across the Cooper River to a place connected to the founding of our nations: Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. This site in Mount Pleasant, S.C., preserves Snee Farm, land once owned by one of America’s Founding Fathers. Charles Pinckney was born […]
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
On our vacation to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, we visited the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This site was established in 1953 as the first national seashore in the United States Cape Hatteras protects more than 70 miles of barrier island coastline. Rising above the landscape is the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which was completed in […]
Big Cypress National Preserve
Big Cypress is not exactly a national park, but a national preserve. A national preserve allows certain traditional uses to continue while still protecting the land. When Congress established Big Cypress in 1974, it became one of the very first two national preserves in the country, Big Cypress protects nearly 729,000 acres of land, making […]
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield is just one of many national park sites set aside to honor the battles that shaped our nation. Across the United States, the National Park Service preserves dozens of historic battlefields, forts and military landscapes. These places were chosen not only for the events that happened there, but also for the stories they continue […]
