Day -1 (May 5)
Flight to St Louis
Gateway Arch NP including Tram ride to the top
Day - 2
Drive to Bowling Green, KY
Day - 3
Mammoth Cave NP
- Heritage Trail
- Historic Cave Tour (ticketed)
Drive to Lafayette
Day - 4
Indiana Dunes NP
- Dunes Ridge Trail (nothing much, bug spray needed)
- Dunes Succession Trail
Flight to Phoenix
Day - 5
Saguaro NP
- Desert Discovery Trail
- Majato Scenic drive
- Valley view Trail
Drive to Show Low (Towne place Suites excellent hotel)
Day - 6
Petrified Forest NP
- Scenic drive 28 miles (Action guide)
- Mesa Blue Trail
- Crystal Forest Trail
- Giant Logs Trail Trail (not needed)
Day -7
Grand Canyon NP
Mathew view point
- Blue/Red Shuttle
- Mohave/Powell/Pima view points
Day - 8
Great Basin NP
- Osceola Ditch Trail
- Baker Creek
- Mountain view Nature Trail
- Lehman Cave Lodge Tour
(Scenic drive open only up to Ditch Trail)
Day - 9
Lake Tahoe
Day - 10
Lassen Volcanic NP
- Walk to Sulphur works from Southside
- drive in Scenic road until devastation area from north side
- Manzanita.lake trail
(Scenic drive only partly open)
Day - 11
Redwood NP
- Trillium Falls Trail
- Drury Scenic drive
Day - 12
Crater Lake NP
- Steel visitor center
- Rim village
- view point
(Rim drive will open only in July)
Day - 13
Portland sights
- Intl. Rose Test Garden
- Columbia Gorge view points
- Bridal veil Falls
- Latourell Falls
- Multnomah Falls
Drive to Seattle
10 Days
Seattle stay May 17 to 27
Day 24
28 May flight to MSP
Day 25
Voyageurs National Park
- Kobetegama lake overlook Trail
- Beaver lake overlook Trail
- Sullivan Bay trail
(Missed boat tours - only from mid Jun)
Day 26
Drive to MSP and flight to Bismarck
Drive to Medora
Day 27
Theodore Roosevelt NP
- Painted Canyon trail
- Scenic drive outlooks
- Wind canyon trail
- Boicourt trail
Drive to Rapid City
Day 28
Badlands NP (Guide Along tour)
- Pinnacle entrance
- Priere dog town (not worth the drive)
- Scenic drive & outlooks
- Window/Door Trails
- Visitor Center
Wind Cave NP
- Priere nature trail
- Scenic drive to Route 5 for wildlife
Day 29
Black Hills
- Needle Scenic drive
- Custer State Park (Sylvan lake trail)
- Wildlife drive from Rte 87 (better to from here to Wind cave NP to avoid 7-11 dirt road)
- Iron mountain scenic drive
Mount Rushmore
Flight to Denver
Day 30
Flight to Anchorage/Kotzebue
Day 31
Visitor Center etc
Day 32
Flight seeing
- Gates of Arctic NP (could not land)
- Kobuk NP (landed in Dunes)
Day 33
Flight to Anchorage/IAD
