Category: Parks

The Music of the Blazin’ M Ranch Packs ‘Em In.

Those of you who have spent an evening at the Chuckwagon Supper and Western Music Stage Show in Cottonwood, Arizona,  will vouch for the high quality of the entertainment, great music and a terrific supper. Otis on stage Their location seems a little strange for such an eclectic show but […]

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L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park

Christopher Columbus is credited for discovering North America when he came here in 1492, but he certainly wasn’t the man who discovered it. As I learned in public school, Isolated Coastline around the year 1000, Leif Eriksson, son of the adventurer Erik the Red, sailed west. He was probably not […]

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Zoo Sauvage de St. Felician

When was the last time you roamed in the woods hoping you could see some wild life but didn’t? Now is the time to place yourself among about 1000 wild animals on their own stomping grounds? Contented black bear Although many of us have never heard about it, the Zoo […]

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Rails to the Klondike

In the summer of 1896 a prospector named Skookum Jim discovered gold in Rabbit Creek which runs into the Klondike River, in Canada’s Yukon. The claims were registered at a camp called Forty Mile, because it was forty miles from Dawson on the Yukon River. Tour Train at Skagway Miners […]

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Tunneling Through the Canadian Rockies

When tourists drive the beautiful route taking them over Rogers Pass in the Canadian Rockies they probably don’t appreciate the problems caused to railway transportation by this mountain range. In 1883, Canadian Pacific Railway laid a single track that wound through the narrow Illecillewaet Valley and laboriously twisted up and […]

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