Trip Summary Continued

We visited 7 national parks and 2 national monuments - Devils Tower WY, Mt Rainier N.P. Washington, Mt St Helen's Washington, Crater Lake N.P. Oregon, Redwoods N.P. California,
Lassen Volcanic N.P. California, Yosemite N.P. California, Sequoia N.P. California, Kings Canyon N.P. California, and Hoover Dam Nevada/Arizona.  There were many "travel days" when we only stopped overnight. We enjoyed seeing so much of our beautiful country.
Pictures of our "home" for the trip: in Sioux City, South Dakota on our way northwest and Shingletown, California near Lassen Volcanic NP which was a nice large campsite.

Pictures from Paul's camera: from Mt St Helen's and Hoover Dam

RV Road Trip Summary

It seems like our timing for this trip was excellent due to weather conditions.  We were out of Florida before Hurricane Irma visited, a cold front with snow came through the northwest and cleared out the smoke from the fires (helped but didn't put them out) while we were there.  Although we were not in the area of the latest fires in California they started after we were out of the state. We were on the road almost 6 weeks and covered over 8800 miles of our beautiful country.  We saw snow in Montana, at Mt Rainier Paradise Visitor Center and Crater Lake. 

We saw Christine Falls at Mt Rainier and Bridalveil Falls at Yosemite.

Hoover Dam

We are back in the heat now.  After wearing jeans for nearly 3 weeks we are in shorts again. We spent Friday at Hoover Dam.  It is awesome to actually see it.  We passed the security checkpoint and took the power plant tour which was interesting.  It is an amazing engineering feat and provides power to such a large area.  Sadly this was our last sightseeing stop before we head for home.  It has been a good trip; we were able to see a lot of beautiful sights. We are in Nevada so it will take several days to get home from here.

Kings Canyon National Park

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are actually connected but there are separate entrances and different sites to see.  Tuesday we went to Kings Canyon to see more.  It was about 48 degrees at about 6,000 feet of altitude. We spent time at the Grant Grove Village and walked the trail around the General Grant tree, the walk thru tree (we walked thru it), centennial stump among other sites.  We had a nice lunch at the restaurant in the Grant Grove Village.

Sequoia National Park

We spent Monday at Sequoia National Park.  The roads were definitely mountain roads: narrow winding with climbs and descents.  There was a 6 mile stretch of construction with 2 miles of that one lane only. Of course the scenery was worth it! The trees are beautiful and we went to the Giant Forest Museum, walked in the forest a bit and stopped at tunnel rock among other sites.  We stopped at a Walmart (haven't been there for a while!) on our way back to the campground and replenished some supplies.  It is still cool at night and mild during the day.