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This is a remote trailhead at the southern boundary of the park that is not accessible by road. From this trailhead, you can embark on the following trails within the park:
- South Boundary Trail: Lynx Creek
- Fox Creek Trail
- South Boundary Trail: Harebell-Fox Creek Trail

Located along the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mt. Lyn Lowry Overlook provides scenic views of Mt. Lyn Lowry, the Woodfin Cascades, and the 60-foot cross erected in Lyn Lowry’s honor. In 1962, this mountain was re-named for Lowry, a fifteen-year-old who died of leukemia.

Mount Pisgah Picnic Area provides a summer retreat from the heat just a 45-minute drive south from the Asheville area. At an elevation of about 5,000 feet, temperatures are typically 10 – 15 degrees cooler than low lying areas nearby. Whether driving the Blue Ridge Parkway or getting away for the day, enjoying a picnic lunch at this picnic area can round out a mountain pleasure trip.

Craggy Gardens Picnic Area provides a summer retreat from the heat just a short drive from the Asheville area. At an elevation of 5,270 feet, temperatures are typically 10 – 15 degrees cooler than low lying areas nearby. Whether driving the Blue Ridge Parkway or getting away for the day, enjoying a picnic at this picnic area can round out a mountain pleasure trip.

Sculptured Beach is located two miles south of Limantour Beach, which is the closest place to park. Winter rains feed two creeks which stream across the sand into the ocean creating a wet barrier for beach walkers wishing to keep their feet dry. Once at Sculptured Beach, look for its namesake rocks lying on the shoreline. The sculpted rocks are exposed at low tide, along with the organisms that cling to them, creating an exciting area to go tidepooling.

Caledon State Park is full with quiet beauty, deep history, and abundant wildlife. Lying along the broad tidal stretch of the Potomac River about 50 miles downstream from Washington, DC, these 2,500 acres of riverside forest are a gathering place for bald eagles from up and down the East Coast.

The camp of Peace Chief Black Kettle was located on the floodplain of the Washita River within the Western Red-Bed Plains geomorphic province of the Great Plains. The area is characterized gently rolling hills of nearly flat-lying Permian red sandstone and shale Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Wildlife viewing and/or a relaxing reprieve await visitors at scenic Lynx Pond.

This is a remote trailhead at the southeast boundary of the park that is not accessible by road. From this trailhead, you can embark on the following trails within the park:
- Yellowstone Meadows Cutoff Trail- Thorofare Trail
- Hawk's Lake Trail
- Thorofare-South Boundary Cutoff Trail
- South Boundary Trail: Lynx Creek

Tecumseh began life in the Shawnee village of Piqua, Ohio on March 9, 1768 as a great meteor flashed and burned its way across the heavens. This event accounts for his name: The Shooting Star, or Celestial Panther Lying in Wait. Tecumseh grew to be a famous warrior and dynamic orator. These skills, paired with his belief that the white man would never rest until all American Indians were dispossessed, made him a powerful and influential force.

Lyn Slade, a needle felting artist and lifelong New Englander, was thrilled by crashing waves and darkened dampness along Schoodic Peninsula's rocky shores. She participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 2018.

Within a low-lying, interior wetland, bounded by wax myrtle shrubs and pine trees between the Thorofare and Passmore Creek, lies the likely location of the Travis plantation house and housing for the enslaved. Archeology at domestic farmstead site located a half-mile away reveals where the enslaved community lived. Learn about the plantation's history and a few of the artifacts archeologists found.

This photo was one of a series of well-known photographs taken by Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner on July 5 or 6, 1863, near the edge of the Rose Woods. The dead soldier nearest to boulder is lying in a shallow grave.

Situated in Old Kodiak, this is the only surviving structure known to have been associated with both the Russian American Company (1799) and the Alaska Commericial Company (1868), trading companies that were controlling factors in the Russian and early American administration of Alaska.

McPherson Square is a 1.66-acre park lying in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s central business district. It occupies an entire city square surrounded by K Street to the north, I Street to the south, and 15th Street to the east and west.

One of the snappiest visitors to Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site is the snapping turtle! They can be spotting lying on the bottom of the muddy river, sometimes best at low tide. When they aren’t in the mud of the tidal river, during summer months they can be spotted up in the grass looking for good places to lay their eggs. Snapping turtles have extremely powerful jaws, sharp claws, a serrated beak, and a fierce snap that can reach farther than you may expect.

Snowshoe hare are perfectly adapted to their cold, snow environments. Even so, a warming climate and a complex predator/prey relationship has a large influence on their overall population.

Got plastic water bottles, newspaper, or cereal boxes collecting in your recycling bin? Flex your creativity skills and repurpose items lying around your house with these fun activities. Your imagination is the only limit!

In 1849, many companies of gold seekers decided to follow the Applegate Trail to a new cutoff, said to be a quicker way to the goldfields. Lassen’s Cutoff turned out to be 200 miles longer than the established routes, extending the trip by weeks. Long before reaching the mines, most companies ran out of food. Starving men desperately filled their empty bellies with anything they could chew- rotting livestock lying trailside, boiled bits of leather, and plants, some poisonous.