Accommodations: Meals and lodging in La Junta and Los Animas, Colo.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument
Box 1648, Montrose, CO 81402
(970) 249-7036
Sheer-walled canyon. Shadowed depths accentuate darkness of ancient
rocks of obscure origin. Camping, fishing, hiking, nature trail, scenic
overlooks.
Location: 15 miles from Montrose, Colo., on Colo. 347.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Montrose.
Colorado National Monument
Fruita, CO 81521
(907) 858-3617
Deep canyons, towering monoliths, strange rock formations, dinosaur
fossils, and remains of a prehistoric Indian culture grace colorful
sandstone country. Visitor center. camping, hiking, climbing, scenic
overlooks.
Location: The monument is 4 miles west of Grand Junction and 31/2
miles south of Fruita, Colo. on Colo. 340.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Grand Junction and Fruita, Colo.
Dinosaur National Monument
Box 210, Dinosaur, CO 81610
(970) 374-3000
Spectacular canyons cut by Green and Yampa Rivers through upfolded
mountains. Quarry contains fossil remains of dinosaurs and other ancient
animals. Camping, visitor centers, fishing, backcountry camping, hiking,
boat trips, campfire programs, exhibits, worldfamous display of dinosaur
fossils in quarry visitor center.
Location: On Colorado-Utah border 20 miles north of Dinosaur, Colo.
All dinosaur fossils and all improved campgrounds are in quarry area 7
miles north of Jensen, Utah.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Vernal, Utah, 14 miles.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816
(719) 748-3253
Treasure of paleontological history preserved by volcanic ash.
Among world's richest plant and insect fossils groupings. Also bird and
mammal fossils. Nature trail, view of Pike's Peak golden eagles nest in
western part old gold mining town of Cripple Creek to the south,
self-guiding trails around fossil beds.
Location: The monument is 35 miles southwest of Colorado Springs,
Colo., via U.S. 24.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Colorado Springs and Woodland
Park.
Great Sand Dunes National Monument
Mosca, CO 81146
(719) 378-2312
Among nation's largest and highest dunes. Deposited over thousands
of years by southwesterly winds blowing through passes of lofty Sangre
de Cristo Mountains. Visitor center, exhibits, hiking on the dunes,
picnicking. camping, campfire programs in summer, naturalist walks,
self-guiding trail.
Location: Follow U.S. 160 east from Alamosa, Colo.. to Colo. 150 and
the monument.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Alamosa.
Hovenweep National Monument
McElmo Route, Cortez, CO 81321
(970) 529-4465 (Cellular: 970-749-0510)
Six groups of towers, pueblos. and cliff dwellings built by pre-Columbian Indians. Two groups in Utah, four in Colorado. Camping, hiking, Indian ruins.
Location: 45 miles from Cortez, Colo., on Utah-Colorado border. Dirt
roads sometimes impassable in bad weather; check locally.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Blanding and Bluff in Utah; in
Cortez in Colorado.
Connecticut
Weir Farm National Historic Site
735 Nod Hill Road, Wilton CT, 06897-1309
(203) 834-1896
Summer home and workplace of American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), this has been an arts center for more than 100 years.
Location: Southwestern Connecticut. From U.S. 7 between Norwalk and Danbury, take Conn. 102 to Old Branchville Road to Nod Hill Road.
District of Columbia
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
1411 W Street, S.E.
Washington, DC 22020
(202) 426-5961
Cedar Hill, restored home of Frederick Douglass, outstanding 19th-century American black. Remarkable orator and writer, noted abolitionist and antislavery editor. Visitor center, exhibits, audiovisual program, restored home and furnishings, guided home tours.
Location: Washington, D.C., 14th and W Streets, S.E.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in D.C. area.
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
1318 Vermont Ave,NW, Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 332-1233
Headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women, this site commemorates Bethune's leadership in the black women's rights movement from 1943 to 1949.
Theodore Roosevelt Island
c/o George Washington Memorial Parkway
Turkey Run Park, McLean, Virginia 22101
(703) 285-2598
88-acre wilderness preserve memorializes President Theodore Roosevelt's contributions to conservation. Tours, interpretive programs, formal memorial with statue, self-guiding trails, aquatic life, bird and animal refuge.
Location: In Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Reach parking area from northbound lanes of George Washington Memorial Parkway on Potomac's Virginia side. Footbridge connects island to Virginia shore.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Washington. D.C. and northern Virginia.
Florida
Big Cypress National Preserve
H.C.R. 61, Box 110, Ochopee, FL 33943-9710
(813) 695-4111
Characterized by stands of cypress trees, wetgrass prairies, marshes, estuarine mangroves, and threatened species such as the Florida panther, this preserve protects critical watershed area for the threatened ecosystems of south Florida.
Location: South Florida, just north of Everglades National Park. Off U.S. 41, 60 miles from either Naples or Miami.
Biscayne National Park
Box 1369, Homestead, FL 33090-1369
(305) 247-7275
On Florida's southern Atlantic coast, park embraces 175,000 acres, mostly water and living coral reefs. Contains well-sheltered section of Biscayne Bay, about 45 low islands, called "keys," and about 20 miles of mainland mangrove shoreline. Available by private boat or concessioner-operated tour boat: swimming, snorkeling, fishing, camping,
picnicking, and hiking on nature trails. (Picnicking, fishing, interpretive activities on mainland.)
Location: Park headquarters at Convoy Point, 9 miles east of Homestead, on S.W. 328 Street.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Homestead.
DeSoto National Memorial
P.O. Box 15390
Bradenton, FL 34280-5390
(813) 792-0458
Commemorates 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Led first extensive exploration by Europeans of present southern United States (1539-1542). Visitor center, exhibits, audiovisual program, nature trail, living history program (December-April). Lowest visitation in summer.
Location: On Tampa Bay 5 miles west of Bradenton: 40 miles south of
Tampa, off State Route 64.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Bradenton.
Dry Tortugas National Park
P.O. Box 6208, Key West, FL 33041-6208
(305) 242-7700
These seven coral reefs are noted for marine life and several species of nesting birds. Fort Jefferson, begun in 1846 to help control the Florida Straits, served as a Civil War military prision and held four of the Lincoln Conspirators.
Location: Gulf of Mexico, 68 mile west of Key West. The islands can be reached by boat pr seaplane from the Key West area.
Fort Caroline National Memorial
12713 Fort Caroline Road
Jacksonville, FL 32225
(904) 641-7155
Overlooks site of French Huguenot Colony of 1564-65, second French attempt at settlement within present United States. Here. French and Spaniards began two centuries of European colonial rivalry in North America. Scale replica of fort, museum, self-guiding trail.
Location: East of downtown Jacksonville, via Fla. 10.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Jacksonville.
Fort Jefferson National Monument
c/o Everglades National Park
P.O. Box 279, Homestead, FL 33030
(305) 247-6211
Largest of a ring of masonry coastal defense forts built in 19th century. Stands on an island in the Gulf of Mexico's Dry Tortugas group, named to warn mariners of no fresh water. During and after Civil War, fort used as federal military prison. Bird refuge, coral formations, marine life, underwater nature trail, camping, fishing. picnicking,
self-guiding tour of fort.
Location: 68 miles west of Key West. Accessible only by boat or air taxi from Key West area.
Accommodations: No housing, water, meals, or supplies.
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
13165 Mt. Pleasant Rd, Jacksonville, Florida 32225-1227
(904) 641-7155
Named for the Indians who lived here for more than 3,000 years, the preserve encompasses Atlantic coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks, and the estuaries of the St. Johns and Nassau rivers. Besides traces of Indian life, the site preserves the remains of European colonial ventures as well as 18th- and 19th-century American settlements.
Location: Northeast Florida. From Jacksonville, take Fla. 105 east.
Georgia
Andersonville National Historic Site
Route 1, Box 85, Andersonville, GA 31711
(912) 924-0343
Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. Commemorates sacrifices borne by American prisoners, not only in the Civil War. but also in all wars. Includes Andersonville National Cemetery. Information station, POW exhibit building. self-guiding tour of prison site. picnicking, summer programs include interpretive talks, walks, and torchlight tours.
Location: 9 miles northeast of Americus.
Accommodations: Meals available in Andersonville: lodging in Americus and Montezuma.
Cumberland Island National Seashore
P.O. Box 806, St. Marys, GA 31558-0806
(912) 882-4335
Unspoiled beaches and dunes, maritime forests, salt marshes, freshwater lakes, and the remains of centuries of human habitation characterize the largest of Georgia's Atlantic barrier islands.
Location: Main visitor center is of Ga. 40 in St. Marys. The island can be reached by boat or ferry.
Fort Frederica National Monument
Route 9, Box 286-C
St. Simons Island, GA 31522
(912) 638-3639
Built by Gen. James E. Oglethorpe during Anglo-Spanish struggle for present southeastern United States. Visitor center, museum exhibits, interpretive and audiovisual programs, self-guiding tour of townsite and fort.
Location: On St. Simons Island, 12 miles from Brunswick, Ga. Can be reached via Brunswick-St. Simons toll causeway.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Brunswick and on St. Simons Island. No picnic facilities at monument: picnic areas on St. Simons Island in Brunswick and Jekyll Island State Park.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
P.O. Box 30757, Savannah, GA 31410
(912) 786-5787
Early 19th-century fort, whose bombardment by federal rifled cannon in 1862 first demonstrated the ineffectiveness of old-style masonry fortifications. Visitor center, museum exhibits, interpretive programs and displays, self-guiding tour, hiking, picnicking, fishing. Boat ramp and private campground nearby.
Location: 13 miles east of Savannah, Ga., off U.S. 80.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Savannah area.
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
P.O> Box 392, Plains, GA 31780-0392
(912) 824-3413
Jimmy Carter's boyhood home, school, church, and current residence are preserved, along with much of the small town and rural landscape that has provided the setting for the President's life and early political career.
Location: Southwest Georgia. From Americus, take U.S. 280 west to plains.
Ocmulgee National Monument
1207 Emery Highway, Macon, GA 31201
(912) 752-8257
10,000 years of American Indian heritage preserved here include platform mounds and ceremonial earthlodge abandoned about 1100 A.D. These Indians were an outpost of the Mississippian culture. Visitor center with archeological exhibits, guided tours, self-guiding trail. Summer program includes Indian handicraft demonstrations.
Location: On east edge of Macon, Ga., off Interstate 16.
Accommodations: Meals, lodging, and campgrounds in Macon.
Guam
War in the Pacific National Historical Park
Box FA, Agana, Guam 96910
(011)671-477-9362
Interprets events in the Pacific theater of World War II. Includes major historic sites associated with 1944 battle for Guam. Exemplifies island-hopping military campaign against the Japanese. Stell Newman Visitor Center, small museum, major invasion beaches.
Location: Agana Harbor area.
Accommodations: Resort hotels within 5 miles. Tamuning Bay area.
Hawaii
Kalaupapa National Historical Park
P.O. Box 222, Kalaupapa, HI 96742-2222
(808) 567-6102
The isolated Moloka'i Island Hansen's Disease (leprosy) settlement was founded here in 1866 and operated until 1969. The park also includes areas relating to early Hawaiian life.
Location: North shore of Moloka'i Island. Park is reached by charter flights, or by a steep trail from the cliff. Visitor require State of Hawaii permits.
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park
73-4786 Kanalani St N-14, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740-2608
(808) 329-6881
Many aspects of early Hawaiian life are preserved here at the site of an important early native settlement, including houses, ceremonial structures, ancient trails, burial grounds, agricultural fields, and fishponds.
Location: From Keahole Airport in Kona, take Hawaii 19 south for 6 miles.
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
P.O. Box 44340 Kawaihae, HI 96743-4340
(808) 882-7218
A defense fortification and place of worship, during Kamehameha's rise to power in the early 1790's.
Location: From Kawaihea, take Hawaii 270 south 1 mile.
Idaho
City of Rocks National Reserve
P.O. Box 169, Almo, ID 83312-0169
(208) 824-5519
Granite spires and sculptured rock formations up to hundreds of feet high dominate this landscape. Remnants of the California Trail are still visible.
Location: Southern Idaho. From Almo, take country raod south for 2 miles.
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Box 29, Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-3257
Fissure eruptions, volcanic cones, craters, lava flows, caves, and other volcanic phenomena. Douglas-fir, limber pine, and sagebrush-grassland communities. Visitor center, picnicking, self-guiding trails, nature trail, naturalist activities. Museum depicts
volcanic formations, plants, animals, and history of the park.
Location: The monument is 18 miles southwest of Arco, on U.S. 20, 26, and 93.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging available in Arco.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
P.O. Box 570, Hagerman, ID 83332-0570
(208) 837-4739
Fossils embedded in sediment have been exposed on the banks on the Snake River by the carving action of flowing water.
Location: Southern Idaho. Visitor center is in downtown Hagerman at 221 N.State St. (U.S.30).
Nez Perce National Historical Park
Box 93, Spalding, ID 83551-0093
(208) 843-2261
Comprises 24 historic sites spread over North Central Idaho. 20 are managed cooperatively with federal, tribal, state, and private agencies. Some sites relate to westward expansion, settlement, and the 1877 War. Others relate to Nez Perce religion and legends. Scenic views, natural formations, historic buildings, visitor center/museum with exhibits and movie, self-guiding facilities, and picnicking.
Location: Park headquarters at Spalding, 11 miles east of Lewiston, on U.S. 95. Personal services at Kamiah Site in summer only.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Lewiston and other communities.
Indiana
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
401 South Second Street
Vincennes, IN 47591
(812) 882-1776
Classic memorial stands on site of Fort Sackville, which frontier army under Clark captured from British in 1779. This won Old Northwest for the United States. Marble rotunda contains 7 large murals. Visitor center, movie version of Clark's campaign, landscaped grounds, view of the natural Wabash River, statues and markers. No camping or picnicking in the park, but facilities are available nearby.
Location: Vincennes, at junction of U.S. Highways 50 and 41, southwestern Indiana.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Vincennes.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
P.O. Box 1816, Lincoln City, IN 47552-1816
(812) 937-4541
Abraham Lincoln lived on this southern Indiana farm from age 7 to 21. His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buired here.
LocationFrom I-64, take U.S. 231 south for 6 miles, then take Ind. 162 east for 2 miles.
Iowa
Effigy Mounds National Monument
R.R. 1, Box 25A, Harpers Ferry, IA 52146
(319) 873-3491
Outstanding examples of Indian burial mounds in shapes of birds and other creatures. Visitor center, museum exhibits, audiovisual presentation, self-guiding trail, scenic views along 300-foot high bluff, trailside exhibits, hiking, guided group tours. State campgrounds and picnic areas nearby.
Location: 4 miles north of McGregor and Marquette, Iowa, on Highway 76.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in McGregor.
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
P.O. Box 607, West Brach, IA 52358-0607
(319) 643-2541
Herbert Hoover's birthplace cottage, the Friends Meetinghouse and other structures from his boyhood neighborhood (1874-85), the gravesites of Prasident Hoover, and Mrs. Hoover, and the Hoover Presidential Library and Museum are within the park.
Location: From I-80, take Exit 254; follow signs to park entrance.
Kansas
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Route # 3, Larned, KS 67550
(316) 285-6911
Fort protected traffic on Santa Fe Trail from 1859 to 1878. Key military post in Indian War of 1868-69. Served as Indian agency in 1860s. Nine historic military buildings: 5 have exhibits and furnished rooms open to public. Visitor center, audiovisual program, exhibits, history/nature trail, picnic area. Guided tours daily and living history
programs on weekends in summer.
Location: 7 miles west of Larned, Kans., on U.S. 156.
Accommodations: Meals, lodging, and campgrounds in Larned and Great Bend, Kans.
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Old Fort Boulevard, Fort Scott, KS 66701
(316) 223-0310
Army Post (1842-1853) guarded the permanent Indian frontier. Dispatched troops on expeditions to explore the West, protect Santa Fe Trail traffic, and fight in Mexican War. Served as Union supply base during Civil War (1861-1865). Twenty-one historic military buildings, 13 furnished and open to public. Visitor center, audiovisual program and exhibits, guided tours, living history demonstrations, interpretive programs and special events as scheduled. Small picnic area on site and private campgrounds nearby.
Location: 90 miles south of Kansas City, on north edge of town of Fort Scott.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Fort Scott.
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
2995 Lincoln Farm Road
Hodgenville, KY 42748
(502) 358-3137
Early Kentucky cabin symbolizes that in which Lincoln was born. Enclosed in granite and marble building on birthplace site. Visitor center, audiovisual program, exhibits, memorial building, picnic area, camping facilities nearby.
Location: 3 miles south of Hodgenville, Ky., on U.S. 31E-Ky. 61.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Hodgenville.
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
A scenic portion of the Cumberland Plateau on the
Kentucky-Tennessee border. See listing under Tennessee.
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
Box 1848, Middlesboro, KY 40965
(606) 248-2817
Mountain pass of the Wilderness Road, explored by Daniel Boone.
Main artery of the great trans-Allegheny migration for settlement of the
Old West. Important military objective in Civil War. Visitor center,
museum, scenic overlooks, Wilderness Road. self-guiding trails.
campground, picnic area. hiking trails, privately-operated Cudjo Cave,
restored Hensley settlement, peak where Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Virginia meet.
Location: Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Visitor center on U.S.
25E, one mile southeast of Middlesboro. K y.
Accommodations Meals and lodging in Middlesboro and Cumberland Gap,
Ky.
Maryland
Antietam National Battlefield
Box 158, Sharpsburg, MD 21782
(301)432-5134
Scene of bloodiest single-day fight in the battle that ended Gen.
Robert E. Lee's first invasion of North in 1862. Visitor center,
exhibits, orientation movie, slide program, driving tour of battlefield,
National Cemetery, fishing in Antietam Creek.
Location: From Sharpsburg, Md., northeast along Md. 34 and Md. 65.
Accommodations Meals and lodging in Hagerstown, 14 miles north.
Clara Barton National Historic Site
5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, MD 20812
(301) 492-6245
Built in 1891, this 38-room home of American Red Cross founder was
organization's headquarters for 7 years. A living history area. Restored
home and furnishings, guided home tours, reservations can be made.
Location: Glen Echo, Md., 5801 Oxford Road, adjacent to Glen Echo
Park.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Greater Washington, D.C. area.
Glen Echo, Md. is 8 miles from downtown Washington.
Fort Washington Park
Mailing Address: c/o National Capital Parks-East
1900 Anaeostia Drive, S.E.
Washington, D C 20020
(301) 763-4600
On Maryland side of Potomac River, Fort Washington exemplifies
early 19th-century coastal defense. Occupies site of earliest
fortification erected for defense of National Capital. Altered only
slightly since 1824. Fort, park with picnic sites, museum, demonstration
of the heavy artillery uniform of the 1860s, with a firing of muskets,
artillery demonstrations.
Location: Fort Washington Road, Oxon Hill, Md., suburb of Washington, D.C.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Washington area.
Hampton National Historic Site
535 Hampton Lane, Towson, MD 21204
(410) 962-0688
Includes one of the largest and most ornate mansions of
post-Revolutionary period (1790), with complex of historic outbuildings,
English formal gardens, and specimen trees. Guided house tours, summer
grounds and garden tours, exhibits, seasonal programs.
Location: Take Interstate 695 (Baltimore Beltway) to exit 27 North,
and follow directional signs.
Accommodations: Tearoom on site serves luncheon. Other meals and
lodging nearby in Towson.
Monocacy National Battlefield
4801 Urbana Pike, Fredrick, MD 21701-7307
(301) 622-3515
Here on July 9, 1864, confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early defeated Federal forces commanded by Brig. Gen.Lew Wallace. The battle delayed Early, allowing Union troops to marshal a succesful defense of Washington, D.C.
Location:Washington, D.C. area. From I-95/495, take I-270, then take exit 26 at Urbana. Follow Rte. 80 east to a stop sign. Turn left onto Rte. 355 north. Proceed 3.7 to the Battlefield on right.
Piscataway Park
c/o National Capital Parks-East 1900 Anacostia Drive, S.E.
Washington, DC 20020
(301) 763-4600
Preserves the tranquil view of the Potomac River's Maryland shore,
as seen from Mount Vernon. National Colonial Farm, an
agricultural-historical project of Accokeek Foundation, provides an
exhibit and demonstration of agricultural methods, crops, and livestock
of a modest tidewater farm of the mid-18th century. Farm animals,
woodland foot trail, picnic facilities in Saylot Memorial Grove, fishing
pier, visitor center.
Location: Park is accessible from the Capital Beltway (Interstate
495) exit 3-A. Go south on Indian Head Highway (Route 210) for 10 miles
to Bryan Point Road, then west 4 miles to Potomac River.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging available throughout the Prince
George's County, Maryland, suburbs of Washington.
Thomas Stone National Historic Site
6655 Rose Hill Road, Port Tobacco, MD 20677-3400
(301) 934-6027
Habre-de-Venture, a Georgian mansion built in 1771 near Port Tobacco, was the home of Thomas Stone (1743-87). A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stone was a delegate to the Continental Congresses in the 1770's and 1780's.
Location: Southeastern Maryland. From U.S.301 at La Plata, take Md. 6 west for 2 miles to Rose Hill Road.
Massachusetts
Adams National Historical Site
135 Adams Street, Quincy, MA 02269-0531
(617) 770-1175
The Old House, built in 1731, was purchased by John and Abigail
Adams in 1787. Beautiful garden and magnificent library. Tours of The
Old House daily in season; gardens and grounds are self-guiding walks.
Park open April 19 to November 10. Presidential birthplaces a few miles
away also have daily tours.
Location: Adams Street and Newport Avenue, just off Quincy Center.
Accommodations Meals and lodging in the Quincy and Greater Boston
Areas.
Frederick Law OlmstedNational Historic Site
99 Warren Street, Brookline, MA 02146
(617) 566-1689
"The Father of Landscape Architecture in America" spent some of his
busiest years here at Fairsted, which he purchased in 1883. Home and
studio still hold thousands of drawings, maps, models, and photographs
pertaining to Olmsted's work. House tours show Olmsted's work areas and
various projects. Park open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from noon to
4:30 p.m.
Location: Just off Route 9 at Warren and Dudley Streets in
Brookline, 4 miles from downtown Boston.
Accommodations: Meals and lodging in Greater Boston Area.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
83 Beals Street, Brookline, MA 02146
(617) 566-7937
Birthplace and early boyhood home (1917-20) of the 35th President
of the United States. Kennedy home; walking tour of neighborhood: audio
and self-guiding home tours.
Location: 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Mass.Accommodations Meals and lodging in Greater Boston Area.
Longfellow National Historic Site
105 Braille Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's home at Cambridge, 1837-82. Also
Gen. George Washington's headquarters during the siege of Boston,
1775-76. Restored home and gardens.
Location 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge.