A list of our favorite places, plus sites that we want to go to but haven’t seen yet, in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

A list of our favorite places, plus sites that we want to go to but haven’t seen yet, in Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah. Because the western U.S. is so big and so full of awesome sights to see, I’m dividing them up, and I’ll list the Rocky Mountain states and Southwest states in my next post.

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.

November was a great time of year to visit Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire in Nevada. The weather was warm but not hot, and the rocks were so beautiful! We enjoyed several hikes in each park.