From April through December 2021, we travelled over 12,000 miles, visited 17 states, 19 National Parks (14 of which we had never been to before), 19 other National Park units, 33 state parks, and several BLM lands, public gardens, and city and county parks.

We wondered why the national park in Nevada is called Great Basin, and we learned. . .

We revisited one of our favorite Utah parks: Capitol Reef. We booked a 4-hour tour of remote Cathedral Valley…