National/State Park

Glacier National Park Things To Do
	Drive 'Going-to-the-Sun' Road by Bwana_Brown Taking 13 years to build (between 1921-32), the purpose of the 52-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road was to allow visitors to Glacier NP the opportunity to get up-close and personal with the fantastic scenery that this part of the Rocky Mountains has to offer. Because of the short summer season and the rugged working conditions on the side of steep mountain valleys, the initial survey of the route required over 130 surveyors in order to keep 30 of them... [read more]
Gaspé Things To Do
	Miguasha UNESCO site by Bwana_Brown Although the weather was cool and a bit windy on our first ‘driving’ day as we crossed into the Gaspé, we were already close to the location of our first B&B so we decided to slow down a bit and make a slight detour out onto the Miguasha peninsula, just across Chaleur Bay from Dalhousie, NB. It was there, in the sedimentary rock cliffs of shale and sandstone, that an amazing fossil find was made in 1842 by Abraham Gesner. According to Wikipedia... [read more]