National Parks

Before kids, we visited every national park in the Lower 48. This is where we’re gathering the photographs, routes, favorite trails, missed turns, and park-by-park knowledge from that journey—and adding a new family perspective as we return.

Field notes

Park field notes

A couple standing at a Yosemite overlook with Half Dome and the surrounding mountains behind them

Yosemite National Park, California

Three days in Yosemite: waterfalls, tent camping, and the trail to Sub Dome

We flew into San Francisco with a tent and the rest of our camping gear, spent one night in the city, then traded pavement for three nights beneath Yosemite’s granite walls during peak waterfall season.

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