Future Trips

Alaska

• Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, and Skagway (SE trip)
• Hatcher’s Pass

Arizona

• Grand Canyon:

• Payson:

• Phoenix:

• Prescott:

• Sedona:

• Superstition Mountains:

• Tuscon
  • Sagauro National Park- Do not necessarily need to go back but if want to try different trails (the ones we did are good enough)
    • West:
      • Garwood Trail
    • East:
  • Titan Missle Museum
  • Kitt Peak National Observatory

Iceland

• Beluga Sanctuary
• Icelandic Elf School
• Whale watching?
• Penis Museum?
• Strokkur geyser
• Myrdalsjökull Glacier Park
• Westfjords
• Thingvellir National Park (specifically the THING site)
• Landmannalaugar
• Viking stuffs
• Viking World Museum
• Beer tour?
• Visit Stong in Thjorsardalur
• Travel to Stokksnes
• Visit the Sun Voyager
• Try Harðfiskur

Misc

• Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Manistee River kayaking
• Chitwan National Park
• Roxborough State Park Colorado

New England, USA

• Appalachian Trail
• Lake Placid Olympic Sites

Maine

• Fort Knox & Penobscot Narrows Observatory

New Hampshire

• Granite formations & quarries

Vermont

• Green Mtns

Virginia

• Shenandoah National Park:

 1. Dark Hollow Falls (via Rose River Loop Trail and Rose River Fire Road if time, otherwise out and back)

 2. Doyle River Falls (via Jones Run Trail and Browns Gap Fire Road if time, otherwise out and back)

 3. Old Rag Summit (half day strenuous hike, not for kids)

• Blue Ridge Parkway:
  • Miles 0-130 (0 is Shenandoah NP):
    • Hikes:
      • Sharp Top Trail (MP 86)
  • Miles 130-210:
  • Miles 210-290:
    • Did not drive miles 230-280 due to detour
  • Miles 290-380:
    • Hikes:
      • Beacon Heights ~MP 305 (Need to hike ~10min to overlook, parking lot doesn't look like much)
      • Linnville Falls MP 316 (2 trails, one of gorge and lower falls, one for upper falls)
      • Chestoa View Overlook MP 320.8 (30min loop, maybe worth it if time)
      • Craggy Gardens Visitor Center hike (MP 364)
  • Miles 380-469 (469 is Great Smokey Mountain NP):
    • Hikes:
      • Mt. Pisgah Trail (MP 407.6), summit view- maybe
      • Looking Glass Falls (MP 411)- maybe
      • Graveyard Fields Falls (MP 419)- maybe
      • Waterrock Knob Trail (MP 451.2)- hike to summit 1.2mi strenuous (supposedly highest place on parkway that requires hike?)

• Great Smoky Mountains NP:
  • Hikes/Drives:
    • Laurel Falls hike
    • Cades Cove Drive (long, slow drive but possibly animal sightings)
      • Abram's Falls hike is half way through the drive, can swim in pool at bottom of falls (E and J suggest this hike if doing the drive)
    • Clingman's Dome- only if not foggy at parking lot going up (strenuous hike and 0/2 for seeing anything from top)