Cross Country National Park Road Trip

Welcome to Travel Tuesday! It’s been a longgggg ride–if you’ve been following me throughout the entire of the past 1.5+ year’s worth of posts…you’ve pretty much come along for my entire cross country national park road trip!

Cross Country National Park Road Trip

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General Advice

Summary of Destinations

Complete(-ish) Itinerary

I didn’t quite write about every single thing I did, either due to (1) not enough photos, (2) not quite enough content to be able to write a whole post about it, or (3) just didn’t feel like/get to it.

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DC

West Virginia

Ohio

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Illinois

Wisconsin

Minnesota

Badlands National Park

South Dakota

Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park

(Quick break to California!)

(It was to participate in my friend’s bachelorette party festivities.)

Colorado (continued)

 

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Utah

Zion National Park

Nevada

Lower Antelope Canyon

Arizona

Channel Islands National Park

California

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Cross Country Road Trip to 22 National Parks | fairyburger.com


  • Have you ever been on a road trip? Where did you go? If not, where would you want to go?
  • How many national parks have you been to? I made it to 22 on this trip, but I think my overall total is 31 so far!

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  1. What a fantastic trip!! I’ve never really been on a road trip where we went from place to place. I’m sure it would be fun though, especially if you got to stop and do a lot of fun things as you traveled. I have so many older travel posts I still need to get posted. LOL

    -Lauren
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    1. It was a ton of fun! I’m with you there–I’m always playing an endless game of catchup on the travel posts! :P

  2. I love that you’ve compiled so many of your travels into one easy to use post! I’ve been to many of these places too, but not nearly as many! I am going to ask the dreaded question: did you have a favorite? Better yet, which would you jump on going back to?

    1. hahaha, that’s a reallyyyy hard question! I loveddd exploring Colorado/Utah/Arizona and would love to go back, if that counts…? Rocky Mountain National Park is probably one of my favorite-favorite national parks though out of the ones I visited!!

  3. Woww that’s an epic trip! Thank you for sharing your journey with the rest of us. Definitely saving this for my future reference.
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    1. It was so much fun! I wish I’d extended it for another month, hehehe. :]

  4. Wow! This is amazing! I’d love to do something like this one day. To be totally honest I haven’t done many road trips but I think now with the pandemic it’s shifted my focus and it really makes me want to just slow down and enjoy the journey. Saving this!

    1. I hadn’t really until this trip either, but it was so much fun! I definitely feel that way about the pandemic as well–enjoying the journey and being able to just slow things down is really nice to be able to do!
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  5. Wow! Loved this cross country road trip suggestion, perfect for a family trip this summer

    1. It would be a ton of fun! :]
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    • Lekha Chellani on April 23, 2021 at 10:00 am
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    Oh Wow ! Congratulations on visiting so many National parks. I would love to visit them all when the time permits. My trip to Utah is long due, and your guide will definitely help plan my time out there.

    1. Thanks! I’d really love to visit them all someday as well! Hopefully somewhere in the next several years! :]!

  6. This is great for the current times, where international travel is limited. I’m looking forward to exploring domestic destinations, will bookmark this!

    1. Yay! I hope you have fun when on your explorations! :]
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    • Taylor on April 24, 2021 at 11:14 pm
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    This is an awesome guide! I haven’t done a cross country road trip, but I’ve done smaller road trips around the USA where I got to see a lot of these beautiful spots. :)

    1. That’s awesome! :] I’ve been really wanting to do that lately but sadly no vacation days available yet. Fingers crossed for maybe later this year though!

  7. This looks like such an amazing road trip! What a wonderful way to experience so many epic national parks on one trip! I’d love to try this out one day. Thanks for the great guide!

    1. Thanks! It was so much fun to get to visit so many places — I kinda wish I’d stayed out longer now but maybe someday! I hope you get to go sometime! :D
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  8. This sounds like the kind of road trip I would love to go on, stopping at all of these fantastic national parks!

    1. Yay!! I’d love to check out all the rest of the ones I haven’t visited someday but that’ll have to wait for another time! :P
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  9. Wow, massive road trip! We are hoping to do a long road trip this summer, covering some of these, looks like a lot of great hikes!

    1. They were a lot of fun (definitely helped to break up the monotony of the driving! :P ). I hope you have lots of fun on your trip!!
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  10. OMG Farrah, this sounds like the trip of a lifetime! This must have kept giving you content for your blog for aaaaaages!! I have seen lots of your posts abut these places, but I didn’t realize you did them all in one giant cross country adventure!!
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    1. hahaha, it really did! I scheduled a billion posts into the future and finally ran out of posts earlier this spring. I’ve been super-slacking so there haven’t been a whole lot in terms of posts lately. I’m trying to get back to writing again though! Slowly but surely, heheh.
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