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.

2025 National Parks

One of the main reasons for traveling the United States in a motorhome is to explore the many wonders around the country.

This is a summary of the National Parks we visited in 2025. You can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

As with the previous summaries, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture. Click or tap the link or picture to see more.

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 national park category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

We visited 5 new National Parks in 2025 (plus revisited several), for a total of 52 so far of the 63 total National Parks. We have visited all of the National Parks in the contiguous states; a major milestone! Just those in Alaska, Hawaii, and American Samoa to go.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park: visitor centers:

Boston Mill Visitor Center

Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Brandywine Falls:

Waterfall

Cuyahoga Valley National Park Scenic Railroad: Vamos Vino Grape Escape:

Selfie

Acadia National Park: east loop:

Thunder Hole

Acadia National Park: west loop:

Bass Harbor Light Station

Acadia National Park: Cadillac Mountain sunrise:

Cadillac Mountain

Acadia National Park: Schoodic Peninsula:

Schoodic Education and Research Center

Indiana Dunes National Park:

Visitor center

Isle Royale National Park:

Float plane

Voyageurs National Park: Lake Kabetogama and Ash River:

Beaver Pond Overlook Trail

Voyageurs National Park: Rainy Lake Grand Tour:

Little American Island

Wind Cave National Park:

Wind Cave

Yellowstone Canyon area:

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Yellowstone Norris area:

Norris Geyser Basin

Yellowstone Midway area:

Fountain Paint Pots

Yellowstone Lamar Valley area:

Bison in Lamar Valley

Yellowstone Old Faithful area:

Black Sand Basin

Grand Teton National Park:

Grand Teton National Park

Yellowstone Artists Paintpots area:

Artusts' Paintpots

Joshua Tree Hidden Valley Nature Trail hike[This link won’t work until later.]

Hidden Valley Nature Trail

Several nice parks.

Baseball: Mariners vs Dodgers

We stayed a night in a Seattle hotel and attended two games of the Seattle Mariners vs Los Angeles Dodgers at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.

T-Mobile Park

Edgar’s Cantina:

Edgar's Cantina

Nachos:

Nachos

Grasshoppers:

Grasshoppers

Jenn with a grasshopper (yes, we ate several; tastes kinda nutty):

Jenn with a grasshopper (yes, we ate several; tastes kinda nutty)

Selfie from our seats (mustaches were a meme with the team, with most players growing them; Jenn got some, but forgot them at home, and a nice lady at the entrance gate gave her one):

Selfie from our seats

View from our seats:

View from our seats

Jenn with her shiny jacket:

Jenn with her shiny jacket

The Mariner Moose:

The Mariner Moose

Seize the Moment:

Seize the Moment

Play ball:

Play ball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

The ballpark captures photos and GIFs of everyone’s seats:

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Banana Ball: Savannah Bananas vs The Firefighters

We attended a Banana Ball game of the Savannah Bananas vs The Firefighters, playing at T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners.

Merch:

Merch

Pre-show:

Pre-show

T-Mo:

T-Mo

Banana Ball World Tour:

Banana Ball World Tour

The mascot Split tossing a football with the crowd:

Mascot Split tossing football with crowd

Fan Challenger:

Fan Challenge

Balancing a ladder:

Balancing a ladder

Man-nanas:

Man-nanas

Bananas:

Bananas

Firefighters:

Firefighters

Bananaball

Play ball:

Bananaball

Bananaball

World’s Slowest Race:

World's Slowest Race

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Female pitcher:

Bananaball

Bananaball

Dancing ump:

Bananaball

Pat Monahan

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

A proposal disguised as a game:

Falling For You

Grandma Gladiators

Bananaball

Bananaball

Bananaball

Closing the roof after the game:

Selfie

Baseball: Tacoma Rainiers vs Reno Aces

We attended a game of the Tacoma Rainiers vs the Reno Aces at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, along with Jenn’s father, plus her brothers and their significant others.

An interactive map of the stadium and environs; there are two separate entrances and parking lots, and if you go out the wrong exit, it seems that you have to walk around the outfield to get back to your car (ask me how I know):

View from our seats:

View from our seats

Flyover:

Flyover

The mascot, Rhubarb:

Rubarb

Play ball:

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball

Exploring the ballpark:

Playground

Mural

Ballpark

Ballpark

Ballpark

Ballpark

Rhubarb:

Rubarb

Rubarb

Baseball

The game didn’t go great for the Rainiers:

Scores

But it was nice to hang out with fam.

Grand Teton National Park

On our sixth day in Yellowstone National Park we headed south out of the park, to do a quick scenic drive of the neighboring Grand Teton National Park:

A picnic lunch at Lewis Lake:

Picnic at Lewis Lake

Lewis Lake

Lewis Falls:

Lewis Falls

Lewis Falls

Grand Teton National Park entrance sign:

Grand Teton National Park entrance sign

Jackson Lake:

Jackson Lake

Jackson Lake

Signal Mountain Overlook:

Signal Mountain Overlook

Grand Teton peaks:

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Horses:

Horses

Grand Teton National Park

Bison:

Bison

Horses chasing after a bison:

Horses and bison

Horses

Bison

Dinner at Leeks Pizzeria (a very long wait):

Leeks Pizzeria

Leeks Pizzeria

A bear across the lake:

Bear

Sunset over Yellowstone Lake on the way home:

Sunset over Yellowstone Lake