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The Intent of this website is to offer a free location to those who love to travel, love the outdoors, and to provide friendly and honest information regarding locations throughout the world. The site is a work-in-progress and new posts are added weekly and/or monthly.
Unless we state otherwise, the photos featured in the location posts are ours. The information about each location is a contribution of our experiences, from destination websites, Wikipedia, and other sources.
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Brian Childress
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
High Falls State Park - Georgia
High Falls State Park is a 1,050-acre Georgia state park located near the city of Jackson in Monroe County, Georgia, part of the Macon metropolitan area. It is the site of a prosperous 19th-century industrial center, which became a ghost town when it was bypassed by the railroad. The park contains the largest waterfall in middle Georgia and a 650-acre lake. In the early 19th century, the park's land was a prosperous industrial town with several stores, a grist mill, cotton gi
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Brian Childress
- Mar 6, 2022
- 1 min
Fort Yargo State Park - Winder, Georgia
Fort Yargo State Park is a 1,816-acre Georgia state park located in Winder, situated between Athens and Atlanta. The park is located 1 mile south of Winder and is accessible by Georgia State Route 81. There is a 260-acre lake with a public beach. Available activities at Fort Yargo include GeoCaching, hiking, mountain biking, disc golf, boating (including Jon boat, pedal boat, and canoe rentals), lake swimming, fishing, picnicking, and miniature golf. The park also features a
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Brian Childress
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
Indian Pueblo Culture Center - Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, located in Albuquerque, is owned and operated by the 19 Indian Pueblos of New Mexico and dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of Pueblo Indian Culture, History and Art. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is a non-profit that opened in August, 1976, to showcase the history and accomplishments of the Pueblo people, from Pre-Columbian to current time. The center includes a 10,000 sq ft museum of the authentic history and artifacts of t
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Brian Childress
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History - Albuquerque, New Mexico
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (formerly named National Atomic Museum) is a national repository of nuclear science information chartered by the 102nd United States Congress under Public Law 102-190, and located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The mission of the National Atomic Museum is to serve as America's resource for nuclear history and science. The Museum presents exhibits and quality educational programs that convey the diversity of individuals and events
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Brian Childress
- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park - Micanopy, Florida
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park, encompassing a 21,000-acre savanna in Alachua County, Florida lying between Micanopy and Gainesville. It is also a U.S. National Natural Landmark. It is crossed by both I-75 and U.S. 441 (which has a scenic outlook ramp). It is in the center of the Paynes Prairie Basin. The basin's primary source of drainage is Alachua Sink. During occasional wet periods, the basin will become full. A notable period occurred from 187
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Brian Childress
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Stanley Hotel - Estes, Colorado
The Stanley Hotel is a 142-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, as a resort for upper-class Easterners and a health retreat for sufferers of pulmonary tuberculosis. The hotel and its surrounding structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, the hotel includes a r
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Brian Childress
- Jul 9, 2020
- 2 min
Lafayette Heritage Trail Park & Tom Brown Park - Tallahassee, Florida
Lafayette Heritage Trail Park, along with adjacent Tom Brown Park, is bounded on the north by the Lake Lafayette system, stretching from Weems Road to Chaires Cross Road in Tallahassee, Florida. Originally this system was a wet prairie, much like Gainesville's Paine's Prairie, filling during heavy rains then draining through sinkholes into the Floridan Aquifer. Over millennia, when the lakes drained, Native Americans hunted and gathered flint for tools and weapons on the lake
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Brian Childress
- Jul 8, 2020
- 1 min
Monument Valley - Arizona
Monument Valley a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona–Utah border near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163. Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known f
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Brian Childress
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
Arches National Park - Moab, Utah
Arches National Park is a US National Park in eastern Utah. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 miles north of Moab, Utah. More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches are located in the park including the well-known Delicate Arch, as well as a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The park contains the highest density of natural arches in the world.
Delicate Arch is a 52-foot-tall free standing natural arch located in the park near Moab in Grand Count
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Brian Childress
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument - Flagstaff, Arizona
Sunset Crater Volcano is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff, Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes in the San Francisco Volcanic Field that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks. Sunset Crater National Monument was established by President Herbert Hoover on May 26, 1930 to protect its geologic formations. In 1990 the name was changed to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monum
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Brian Childress
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Meteor Crater - Winslow, Arizona
Listed as the world's best preserved meteorite impact site on Earth. Located just minutes from Interstate 40 and the old Route 66 in Northern Arizona near Winslow. Meteor Crater is the spectacular result of a collision that rocked the American Southwest approximately 50,000 years ago with the energy of more than 20 million tons of TNT. Situated under the wide skies of the Arizona High Desert, Meteor Crater offers an interactive educational experience for the entire family
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Brian Childress
- May 23, 2020
- 2 min
Town of Tombstone - Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone is a historic city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1877 by prospector Ed Schieffel in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It became one of the last boom towns in the American frontier. The town became famous worldwide because of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral which was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called "the Cowboys" that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 2
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