Scene from Coronado Peak Trail Having a three-day weekend we got ambitious and decided to cross-off the remaining three southern Arizona parks we had not visited. The reason we had not visited them is they are remote-- all at least one to two hours from the interstate. By using Tombstone, and then Tucson, as waypoints, we were able to not only manage to hit the three parks, but also have a good time doing so-- mainly from staying at Loew's Resort for two nights and making ext

Petrified Forest With Morgan's maternity leave coming to an end at the beginning of September, we decided to take a proper road trip and cover much of the north of New Mexico we had not been to, as well as parts of southern Colorado and east Arizona. In all, over seven days we managed to hit 10 different National Park sites, cover 1500 miles, and fit a four-month-old, a three-year-old, a dog, and us two adults into 5 different hotels.    24 hours in the car in one week with o

This park is approximately two hours north of Silver City, New Mexico, which is approximately two hours west of Las Cruces i.e. four hours away from anything and any other sites. So while this one stamp took an entire weekend, we made a good trip of it with staying at the authentically rustic Bear Creek Lodge, dinner at the 1860s era Buckhorn Lodge and Opera House. As for the Cliffs themselves, we did the short one-mile hike where Monty did walk for a good 50 feet before insi