Rock Creek Park

places to get away and experience nature. If you live in or plan to visit the central Arkansas area, there is no shortage of camping sites within easy driving distance of the capital city of Little Rock. Woolly Hollow State Park. Located about 45 minutes north of Little Rock, Woolly Hollow State Park offers a camping location with a lake for fishing, a playground, and plenty of walking trails. The serene, quiet setting is perfect for families or couples with no children looking to get away but not

The Glaciers of Yosemite National Park One of nature's most powerful and influential forces is also one of nature's coldest and slowest processes. These great icy rivers are called glaciers and have formed some of the most beautiful scenery on this planet. These enormous frozen bodies of water are often thousands of feet wide and deep and many miles long. They cover millions of acres of land and drastically change the land into beautiful mountains with many amazing features. One of the areas

AND TELLING A STORY) I would like to travel to Canada and while there, I would visit the cities of Quebec, Alberta, and Toronto.(THESIS STATEMENT) To begin with, I would visit the city of Quebec.The first place I would visit is the Battlefield Parks. They were originally built by the British to prevent the Americans from drawing close enough to lay siege to the walls of Quebec. Next I would visit Citadel also known as La Citadel. It is an active military installation. The Citadel is the oldest

Native Americans inhabited the lands of what is now Yellowstone National Park for more than 11,000 years, until approximately 200 years ago, when European settlers began to drive many of them from their homelands. In 1872 Yellowstone was declared the world’s first national park as a way to preserve and protect the land for the “benefit and enjoyment of future generations.” (National Park Service) Yellowstone National Park covers a vast area in the Northwestern United States. Its landscape is very

of the Sumpter Valley Dredge was underway, and one of the last gold dredges manufactured to work the river until it’s decommissioning nearly twenty years later. Sticking out from the dredge’s structure is 72 enormous one-ton buckets carrying loose rock back into the interior of the dredge. The Sumpter Valley Dredge is an excellent example of a preserved object for its historical significance. An object can consist of any physical structure with moving components that is functional, has artistic

Hydrologic Cycle The hydrologic cycle is the reason our planet is able to sustain the life we have on it. If it were not for this constant cycle of evaporation and condensation of the water from the ocean and waterways to land and back again we would not be able to exist. Water is essential for life on Earth and without it no life would exist such as on the moon. This will examine some of the ways this cycle occurs and also look at a land formation from the eyes of the writer. The wonders of Devils

As I begin my nightly preparation to go snowboarding at wolf creek ski a place that claims to get “The most snow in Colorado” I am ecstatic to go to a place that feels like my back yard. I work part time as a snowboard instructor which gives me the glory of getting a free season pass. Tomorrow is my day off which I love to freeride and be me. As I prepare I get my gear ready gloves, beanie, and snow pants and jacket, but more importantly my snowboard and my boots. I check the weather eager to expect

central, and southern California: Medicine Lake, Mount Shasta, Brushy Butte, Twin Buttes, Silver Lake, Tumble Buttes, Eagle Lake, Lassen, Clear Lake, Mono Lake, Mono Craters, Long Valley, Inyo Craters, Mammoth Mountain, Ubehebe Craters, Golden Trout Creek, Coso, Lavic Lake, Amboy, and Salton Buttes. Some of these volcanoes are active, while others are not. A majority of the volcanoes are inland, with Clear Lake Volcano being the furthest west, located near Sacramento and San Francisco. (Refer to figure

water, 1 million pounds of watermelon, 2.6 million chocolate covered Mickey Mouse ice cream bars, and 1.6 turkey drumsticks(Williams 14). To keep the magic of Disney World alive, Walt hid over 1,000 Mickey Mouse statues all throughout each one of his parks. Although these Mickey’s are small they are hidden everywhere, so future Disney guests, keep those eyes open and on the watch. Walt Disney World visitors know that pin trading is one of the focal points of the trip. Pin trading allows vacationers to

This is the final installment of a series of three reports about the Monarch Divide, a chain of mountains in Kings Canyon National Park. Today we shall continue over a mountain pass, and delve into northern reaches of the Monarch Divide. We shall explore a wild canyon, and follow a spotty trail for miles, using a creek as a handrail to remain on track. The ultimate goal is an off-trail overlook, where we shall enjoy a splendid view of a deeper and more rugged canyon! Note that the wild conclusion