Monument Rocks Kansas Also known as “Chalk Pyramids” this is a sight that you are not expecting to see in the flat plains of western Kansas. The area is so unique that it was the first natural landmark chosen by the U.S. Department of the Interior, as a National Natural Landmark in
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Petit Jean State Park Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton Arkansas is home to Petit Jean State Park, which was Arkansas first state park. The park is known for the legend of Petit Jean, a french girl who disguised herself as a cabin-boy to accompany her boyfriend to the new world. More than
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Rhyolite Nevada Rhyolite is a mining ghost town located just outside the entrance to Death Valley National Park, and one of the most photographed ghost towns in the western United States. The Rhyolite townsite is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management and contains many ruins and a house made from
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Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway Step back in time to an earlier age of locomotive transportation and enjoy the Excursion Train or the Dining Car. See the 1940-era diesel locomotive in operation or view the stationary steam locomotive exhibits. What to Photograph: The collection of vintage rolling stock at ES&NA
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Like No Place Else on Earth “Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world’s great natural wonders – the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and created the world’s largest gypsum dune
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Natural Falls State Park in Northeastern Oklahoma, known by locals as Dripping Springs Falls, is home to the beautiful 77 foot waterfall, which is one of the tallest and most accessible in the region. This was also the location for the filming of Where the Red Fern Grows. The story
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At Fort Smith National Historic Site you can walk where soldiers drilled, pause along the Trail of Tears, and stand where justice was served. The park includes the remains of two frontier forts and the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Judge Isaac C. Parker, known as the “hanging
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Shattuck Windmill Museum Description: Shattuck Windmill Museum is an outdoor park and museum featuring 51 completely restored windmills which were, and still are used to pump water from wells, in the dry grasslands of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The site also features a “Dugout” home, with a sod roof, as
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Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Description: Groom Texas is the site of the the largest free standing cross in the western hemisphere, located along interstate 40 in Groom Texas. The cross was erected in 1995, and is 19 stories, or 190 feet tall. The giant cross can be seen
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Fort Union National Monument Fort Union was established in 1851 as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail. During it’s forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third and final Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison,
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