August 4, 2020 – Page 2 – WANDERLUST FAMILY ADVENTURE

Jewel Cave National Monument – Custer, South Dakota

August 4, 2020 Joseph Candora Attractions, Caves / Caverns, Hiking, Historic Sites, National Parks Service, North America, South Dakota, United States

Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the third longest cave in the world, with 200.3 miles of mapped passageways. Frank and Albert Michaud, two local prospectors, discovered the cave in 1900, when they felt cold air blowing out of a small hole in a canyon. The hole was too small for a person to enter so the brothers dynamited the entrance to make it bigger. They found a cavern lined with calcite crystals naming it “Jewel Cave”. Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Jewel Cave National Monument in 1908. Access to the cave can be reached now via an elevator as well as a cave tour by foot. There are also three surface trails.

New photo by Wanderlust Family Adventure / Google Photos

Wall Drug – Wall, South Dakota

August 4, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Attractions, Historic Sites, North America, South Dakota, United States

Wall Drug Store, often called simply Wall Drug, is a roadside attraction and tourist stop located in the town of Wall, South Dakota, adjacent to Badlands National Park. If you are driving west from points east you will see billboards all along the way touting this roadside attraction. Evidence of a different kind of tourism from years ago the family road trip.

When you arrive in the town of Wall, Wall Drug consists of a collection of cowboy-themed stores, including a drug store, gift shop, several restaurants, and various other stores, as well as an art gallery and an 80-foot brontosaurus sculpture.

Leigh Creek Monument Historical Marker – Ten Sleep, Wyoming

August 4, 2020 Joseph Candora Historic Markers, Historic Sites, Mountain, North America, United States, Wyoming

The Leigh Creek Historical Marker is located in Ten Sleep, Wyoming and commemorates the memory of English nobleman Gilbert E. Leigh. Leigh, a lifelong big game hunter and outdoor enthusiast, went missing in the fall of 1884 during a hunting expedition, after a lengthy search his dead body was discovered where he had fallen from a cliff. A monumented was erected in his memory.

Grand Teton National Park – Wyoming

August 4, 2020 Joseph Candora Camping, Hiking, Historic Sites, Lake/Pond, Mountain, National Parks Service, North America, Rivers, United States, Wyoming

Grand Teton National Park is in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton National Park is only 10 miles south of Yellowstone National Park, to which it is connected by the National Park Service-managed John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Along with surrounding national forests, these three protected areas constitute the almost 18,000,000-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the world’s largest intact mid-latitude temperate ecosystems.

Be sure to check out the cowboy town of Jackson Hole.

Geothermal Features of Yellowstone National Park – Wyoming

August 4, 2020 Joseph Candora Hiking, Historic Sites, Lake/Pond, Mountain, National Parks Service, North America, Rivers, United States, Wyoming

The geothermal areas of Yellowstone include several geyser basins in Yellowstone National Park as well as other geothermal features such as hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles. The number of thermal features in Yellowstone is estimated at 10,000.
Old Faithful is just one of many geysers in the park. It has the advantage of being fairly regular in its eruptions and close to the park road.