Our stay in Big Bend National Park had some high highs and some pretty low lows. We arrived fairly early our first day and got a campsite at the Chisos Basin campground, the coolest place Fahrenheit to stay in the park, according to both the ranger at Panther Junction and our Couchsurfing hosts in Alpine,…
Tag: backpacking
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Our journey has finally begun! We rolled out of the driveway around 7 on Tuesday morning and made camp in Great Smoky Mountains National Park about twelve hours later. The weather was pretty terrible until we came into Pigeon Forge. We picked up Skyline Drive in the middle, near its highest point, where the clouds…