Land of Liberty Explorers

Adventures in America’s National Parks

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
– John Muir

Welcome to Our Blog

We enjoy traveling to national parks and hope this blog will assist others in planning their own national park adventures!

Our blog is named after our sweet black Lab-mix, Liberty, who loves exploring the outdoors.

National Parks

Let the journey begin…

Acadia

Bar Harbor, Maine
Est. February 26, 1919

Arches

Moab, Utah
Est. November 12, 1971

Badlands

Interior, South Dakota
Est. November 10, 1978

Big Bend

Panther Junction, Texas
Est. June 12, 1944

Black Canyon
of the Gunnison

Montrose, Colorado
Est. October 21, 1999

Bryce Canyon

Canyon, Utah
Est. September 15, 1928

Canyonlands

Moab, Utah
Est. September 12, 1964

Carlsbad Caverns

Whites City, New Mexico
Est. May 14, 1930

Channel Islands

Ventura, California
Est. March 5, 1980

Congaree

Hopkins, South Carolina
Est. November 10, 2003

Cuyahoga Valley

Brecksville, Ohio
Est. October 11, 2000

Everglades

Homestead, Florida
Est. December 6, 1947

Glacier

West Glacier, Montana
Est. May 11, 1910

Grand Teton

Moose, Wyoming
Est. February 26, 1929

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon, Arizona
Est. February 26, 1919

Great Sand Dunes

Mosca, Colorado
Est. September 24, 2004

Great Smoky Mountains

Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Est. June 15, 1934

Guadalupe Mountains

Salt Flat, Texas
Est. September 15, 1972

Haleaklā

Makawao, Maui, Hawaii
Est. August 1, 1916

Hawaii Volcanos

Big Island
Est. August 1, 1916

Hot Springs

Hot Springs, Arkansas
Est. March 4, 1921

Joshua Tree

Twentynine Palms, California
Est. October 31, 1994

Kings Canyon

Three Rivers, California
Est. March 4, 1940

Mesa Verde

Mancos, Colorado
Est. June 29, 1906

Mount Rainier

Ashford, Washington
Est. March 2, 1899

New River Gorge

Fayetteville, West Virginia
Est. December 27, 2020

Olympic

Port Angeles, Washington
Est. June 29, 1938

Petrified Forest

Petrified Forest, Arizona
Est. December 9, 1962

Rocky Mountain

Estes Park, Colorado
Est. January 26, 1915

Saguaro

Tucson, Arizona
Est. October 14, 1994

Sequoia

Three Rivers, California
Est. September 25, 1890

Shenandoah

Luray, Virginia
Est. December 26, 1935

Theodore Roosevelt

Medora, North Dakota
Est. November 10, 1978

White Sands

Alamogordo, New Mexico
Est. December 20, 2009

Yellowstone

Gardiner, Montana
Est. March 1, 1872

Yosemite

Yosemite, California
Est. October 1, 1980

Zion

Springdale, Utah
Est. November 19, 1919

Bandelier
National Monument

White Rock, New Mexico
Est. February 11, 1916

Corinth Civil War Sites

Corinth, Mississippi
Est. April 6, 2004

Devils Tower
National Monument

Devils Tower, Wyoming
Est. September 24, 1906

Fort Davis
National Historic Site

Fort Davis, Texas
Est. September 8, 1961

Fort McHenry
National Monument

Baltimore, Maryland
Est. August 11, 1939

Fort Point
National Historic Site

San Francisco, California
Est. October 16, 1970

Fort Smith
National Historic Site

Fort Smith, Arkansas
Est. September 13, 1961

Florissant Fossil Beds
National Monument

Florissant, Colorado
Est. August 20, 1969

George Washington Carver N.M.

Neosho, Missouri
Est. July 14, 1943

Homestead National Historic Park

Beatrice, Nebraska
Est. March 19, 1936

Lowell National
Historic Park

Lowell, Massachusetts
Est. June 5, 1978

Manhattan Project National Historic Park

Los Alamos, New Mexico
Est. November 10, 2015

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historic Park

Woodstock, Vermont
Est. August 26, 1992

Petroglyph
National Monument

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Est. June 27, 1990

Roosevelt Campobello

Campobello Island, New Brunswick
Est. July 7, 1964

Saint-Gaudens
National Historic Park

Cornish, New Hampshire
Est. August 31, 1964

Salinas Pueblo Missions
National Monument

Mountainair, New Mexico
Est. October 28, 1988