2025 parks and museums

In the previous post I covered the National Parks we visited in 2025, but we also visited many National Monuments and other National Park Service units, plus state parks, museums, and such. So this post summarizes those.

Again, you can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the park category (with earliest or latest posts at the top), and the museum category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

Florida’s Forgotten Coast:

St Marks Lighthouse

Seeing hundreds of manatees at Three Sisters Springs in Florida:

Manatees

Rainbow Springs State Park headsprings:

Waterfall long exposure

Weeki Wachee Springs State Park:

Mermaid show

Crooked River State Park trails:

Tortoise

Driftwood Beach:

Driftwood Beach

Fort Frederica National Monument:

Reenactor

Fort Sumter National Historical Park:

Fort Sumter selfie

Fort Moultrie National Historical Park:

Fort

Colonial Williamsburg:

Palace

Cape May Lighthouse:

Cape May Lighthouse

Hershey’s Chocolate World:

Hershey's Chocolate Tour

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site:

Visitor center

Independence National Historical Park:

Liberty Bell Center

Hershey Gardens:

Butterfly atrium

St Clair River and Lake Huron:

Lake Huron

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore:

Steep dune and Lake Michigan

Niagara Falls: Cave of the Winds:

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls: Maid of the Mist:

Horseshoe Falls

Niagara Falls: viewpoints:

Horseshoe Falls

Old Fort Niagara:

Fort

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park:

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion

Fort Williams Park & Portland Head Light:

Portland Head Light

Salem Maritime National Historic Site:

Building

Cape Cod National Seashore:

Highland Lighthouse

Boston National Historical Park:

The Freedom Trail

USS Constitution:

USS Constitution

Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan:

Eagle Harbor lighthouse

Iron Mountain and Needles drive:

More tunnels

Gordon Stockade:

Stockade

Custer Wildlife Loop drive:

Buffalo

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park:

Klondike Gold Rush

Some fascinating places.