Tracking our Junior Ranger badge collection across the National Park Service
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NewBig Bend National Park is named for the broad, sweeping bend of the Rio Grande as it carves the Texas–Mexico border — a fossil-and-volcano country of Chihuahuan Desert, sky-island Chisos Mountains, and a river that draws its own line. Here's how we returned with the girls two decades after our first visit and earned the Junior Ranger badge.
NewGuadalupe Mountains National Park tells the story of a 260-million-year-old Permian Sea, a fossil reef now standing as the highest peaks in Texas — and the last stronghold of Mescalero Apache freedom. Here's how we visited with the girls and earned the Junior Ranger badge.
NewIt's not actually sand — White Sands sits on the world's largest gypsum dunefield, crystallized from an ancient inland sea. Here's how we finally made it at sunset, earned Junior Ranger badges, and why you shouldn't rush this one.
NewEver since the girls were little, we wanted to get them in nature as much as possible, but also have more of a context and memory than simply camping out. National Parks are a happy balance between soaking in nature time and learning and accomplishing.
NewFort Davis NHS is one of the best-preserved frontier military posts in the Southwest — where the legendary Buffalo Soldiers served after the Civil War. Here's how to visit with kids and earn a Junior Ranger badge in this overlooked West Texas gem.
Wupatki National Monument preserves 2,700+ ancestral Puebloan sites — including a natural blowhole that may have drawn ancient people here 900 years ago. Here's our adventure through the national parks of Sedona and northern Arizona.
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