Each year, America's National Parks receive around 300 million visitors. Are you one of them? If you'd like some tips for how to visit one, or if you'd like to revisit fond National Park memories, here are some travel guides and memoirs for you to check out.
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Accessible vacations : an insider's guide to 10 national parks
by Simon Hayhoe This book helps readers with access needs visit national parks and visitor centers. It describes a range of techniques and technologies to make visiting easier and shows you what is available for learning through driving, riding, walking, wheeling, or feeling around ten selected national parks. |
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America the beautiful? : one woman in a borrowed Prius on the road most traveled
by Blythe Roberson The author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men presents a travelogue that takes a humorous and sometime cynical look at Americans' obsession with freedom, travel and the open road. |
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Everything left to remember : my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
by Steph Jagger This memoir about a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, follows their road trip through the Rocky Mountains in an effort to revive their shared memories. |
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Feral : losing myself and finding my way in America's national parks
by Emily Pennington After a decade as an assistant to high-powered LA executives, Emily Pennington left behind her structured life and surrendered to the pull of the great outdoors. With a tight budget, meticulous routing, and a temperamental minivan she named Gizmo, Emily embarked on a yearlong road trip to sixty-two national parks, hell-bent on a single goal: getting through the adventure in one piece. She was instantly thrust into more chaos than she'd bargained for and found herself on an unpredictable journey rocked by a gutting romantic breakup, a burgeoning pandemic, wildfires, and other seismic challenges that threatened her safety, her sanity, and the trip itself. What began as an intrepid obsession soon evolved into a life-changing experience. |
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The National Parks scavenger hunt : a family-friendly way to explore all 63 parks
by Stacy Tornio It's so easy to go through the routine of visiting a national park, but this book will encourage families to truly experience the outing. By having things to look for and learn about, it will help families truly be present and in the moment while enjoying these amazing, beautiful lands meant for all people. This is more than just a checklist. Every scavenger hunt is a to-do list...a challenge...a game...and an adventure the whole family can have together. |
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Native American archaeology in the parks : a guide to heritage sites in our national parks and monuments
by Kenneth L. Feder Here's a full-color travel guide to national parks and national monuments that have a strong connection to the lives of America's First Peoples. |
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Saving Yellowstone : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America
by Megan Kate Nelson A historian and critically acclaimed author reveals the fascinating and complex historical context in which Yellowstone was established in 1800s, and also tells the story of indigenous resistance, the expansive reach of railroad and the struggles of Black southerners to bring racial terrorists to justice. |
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Subpar parks : America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
by Amber Share Based on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America's national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors. |
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This America of ours : Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the forgotten fight to save the wild
by Nate Schweber An award-winning journalist uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance, started by writer Bernard DeVoto and his wife, who entered in the fights of their lives to stop millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining and private industry. |