Southeast Region
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Virgin Islands
Because Virgin Islands National Park is in St. John, it was not simple to get there. First, we drove to Miami, Florida from Charlotte, North Carolina. Second, we flew to St. Thomas in the Caribbean. Third, we took a taxi to the ferry boat dock. Fourth, we took the ferry to St. John USVI. Finally, we took another taxi to our lodging at the Cinnamon Bay...
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Biscayne
Biscayne National Park, located off the east coast of Florida south of Miami is mostly underwater. To truly appreciate the beauty of this park you need to be in the water. It is a subtropical place where a mainland mangrove shoreline, a warm shallow bay, and small islands or keys, living coral reefs intermingle....
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Dry Tortugas
You have to take a long boat ride from Key West to visit Dry Tortugas. It lies in a cluster of seven islands, composed of coral reefs and sand, call the Dry Tortugas. Fort Jefferson, the nation’s largest 1800s masonry fort, is where we docked and walked around....
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Everglades
We took advantage of our winter holiday vacation to drive to south Florida. The Everglades National Park is the largest sub topical wilderness in the world. It is a place where the tall grass, slow moving water, and abundance of wildlife create a metropolis of sustenance. We were astonished of the amount of alligators and birds. They were everywhere....
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Mammoth Cave
Now knowing that we want to visit all of the 58 American National Parks, we took the opportunity during the Labor Day weekend to drive to Kentucky and enjoy Mammoth Cave. Our lodging was inside the park and we saw deer just outside our hotel each morning....
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