Natural Falls State Park 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
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Fort Smith National Historic Site 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.
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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,
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Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ 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
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Cimarron National Grassland Cimarron National Grassland is located in the very southwest corner of Kansas ,primarily in Morton County. The Cimarron National Grassland is the largest parcel of public land in the state of Kansas, comprising over100,000 acres. The multipurpose land is used for hiking, fishing, hunting, camping
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El Malpais National Monument Sandstone Bluffs overlooks millions of years of geologic history, from the 200-million year-old sandstone formed by ancient seas, to the 3000 year-old lava that borders the bluffs. From here, however, you see more than just rocks; you see a land that is part of the
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San Antonio Missions National Historic Park Description: The Spanish Missions built along the San Antonio River, are now in metro San Antonio and are preserved as a National Historic Park. There are 4 missions in the park each at a separate location, so to visit them all you have
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Picher Oklahoma Update: There is virtually nothing left in Pitcher to photograph. The government has bulldozed and cleared almost all of the buildings. Description: Picher was home to mines that supplied bullets for U.S. soldiers fighting in World War I and II. Its population reached a peak of 16,000 as
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Haw Creek Falls Haw Creek Falls is located in Haw Creek campground of the Bayou Ranger District of the Ozark National Forest. The small steam contains the falls which are only a short walk on an access trail suitable for physically disabled visitors. The falls are only about 5
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