The ‘furnace’ part of the park’s name refers to an iron smelting furnace that operated on the property in the 1700s. Iron processed here was used to make horseshoes for
The area is every bit as bleak as the photos indicate. There was quite a bit of trash back here, old mattress springs and car parts, and plastic barrels
The original plan for a trip to this area was an overnight stay for our wedding anniversary, we have visited Lytham St Annes on numerous occasions in the past and
I’m not a mountain-biker, but boy, do I love those guys. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, and for state parks and forests in my area there are often
In a remote corner of New England, three state boundaries meet, commemorated by a four-foot granite pillar. It’s one of those rare locations where you can walk along with one
This is the mountain that inspired Henry David Thoreau to write, in 1858, “I think I could spend a year on the mountain, wandering over its table-lands or sitting on
The size and stride, about four feet, of the Eubrontes tracks suggest they were made by a large, meat-eating dinosaur, likely a kind of Dilophosaurus, which lived in the American
Wa! Wa! WaaaaaCHUsett! If you lived in New England in the 1990s you knew the jingle of central Massachusetts’ biggest ski area by heart. It was heavily advertised during the
Jostedalsbreen national park is the home Europe’s largest remaining ice cap, the Jostedal glacier. With it’s 1310 square kilometers (323 k acres) it’s set up to protect some of the
Mt. Tom was the first place I revisited after hitting 100 unique parks, which should tell you something about its appeal. The major attraction at Mt. Tom is classic Holyoke