Tag: National Monument

• December 30, 2021

  Fort Frederica

  B.A.R.K. Ranger Status: badges earned December 30, 2021! ⭐ Hike review: Superior! The Spanish Moss alone gives this walk high marks, but there is also so much to see and learn outside with the dogs on the broad, flat lawns under the live oaks. Active archaeology, early colonial history, and the old fort with a…
• December 30, 2021

  Fort Pulaski

  B.A.R.K. Ranger status: Badges earned December 30, 2021! ⭐ Hike review: Great! Lovely and various scenery, gentle trails, interpretive signage, and relatively short. It was a pretty humid day, so was also happy for periodic shade. There were a fair number of people there – it was the holidays, and Fort Pulaski is a short…
• August 5, 2021

  Pipestone

  B.A.R.K. Ranger status: First badges earned, August 5, 2021! ⭐ Hike review: Excellent! Pipestone featured our favorite kinds of walks: beautiful and unique scenery, gentle slopes, clear, wide trails, interpretive signage, and short distances (<2 miles). A bonus was getting to converse with traditional Indigenous craftspeople Travis Erikson and his cousin, who carved and quarried…
• August 2, 2021

  John Day Fossil Beds

  B.A.R.K. Ranger status: Information available August 2021, no badges. Hike review: Excellent! We took the dogs to both the Mascall Formation Overlook (short walk) and Blue Basin (easy trail). We’re road trippers and car campers, and this had all the features we love: gentle slopes, beautiful scenery, clean trails, short distances (<2 miles), interpretive signage,…