Share the Experience Photo Contest

The 2009 National Federal Lands photo contest is underway, and you can win some fabulous prizes with your outdoor photography!  Each year, this contest encourages you to get outdoors and enjoy America’s public lands, including our National Parks, National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, and in the West, lands held by the Bureau of Land Management [...]

Fee-free weekends at our National Parks

Talk about a stimulus package! Get outdoors and enjoy your National Parks for three entrance fee-free weekends this summer where you can swim and splash - Biscayne National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park, Gulf Islands National Seashore, and Canaveral National Seashore - or dodge the mosquitoes for an adventure on your bicycle or in your [...]

Advice for the Frugal RV traveler

My friend Linda “Earthworm” Patton (of BooksForHikers.com) is planning a dream trip, cross-country, to see the national parks between Florida and the West.
Lots of friends have dug up good tips for RV travel - and a rental RV is how Linda is going to get to hike in all these gorgeous places. I just stumbled [...]