Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson continues last month’s theme of fun facts you can learn about photos you capture of things you see in a national park. Rebecca also provides tips on how to make those interesting shots even more interesting to your viewers.
Hotter summer temperatures and increased visitation have prompted Mesa Verde National Park officials to open access to the Wetherill Mesa earlier in the day.
June marks not only the beginning of summer, but is also notable for being the month in which Big Bend, Great Smoky Mountains, Biscayne, Mesa Verde, and Olympic national parks were established. Test your knowledge about these national park notables before looking at the answers at the bottom of the page.
Mesa Verde National Park is one of those park units focusing upon the architecture, culture, and landscape of the Ancestral Puebloans who inhabited this area for over 700 years (600 – 1300 CE). There’s plenty to do, see, and learn at Mesa Verde, and this Traveler’s Checklist can help you make the most of your time exploring this park.
Time to test your park unit knowledge with this National Parks Quiz and Trivia #30. See how much you know about some of the National Park Service’s 423 units and maybe learn something new.
The road winding through Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado will take you to incredible views of ancient cliff and ground dwellings built by the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their this place their home for over 700 years.
Despite 2020’s coronavirus pandemic causing cancellation of a number of park photo trips, Traveler’s Rebecca Latson still managed to visit several of the National Park System’s units in a safe, distanced manner. Over the year, Rebecca shared tips, techniques, and favorite places to photograph as well as how to stay safe and healthy while doing so. Here’s a look back at her articles and photos.
Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.
With global travel curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding comfort in planning future trips. But imagine that you finally arrive in Venice and the “floating city” is flooded. Would you stay anyway, walking through St. Mark’s Square on makeshift catwalks or elevated wooden passages – even if you couldn’t enter the Basilica or the Doge’s Palace? Or would you leave and hope to visit sometime in the future?