City of Rocks

  City of Rocks City of Rocks gets its name from the incredible volcanic rock formations found here. The park encompasses a one square mile area in the scenic Chihuahuan desert region of southwestern New Mexico at an elevation of 5,200 feet. The “city” is a geologic formation made up

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Centennial Land Run Monument

  Centennial Land Run Monument The Centennial Land Run Monument commemorates the opening of the Unassigned Land in Oklahoma Territory with the Land Run of 1889. The frenzied energy and emotion from one instant during the run is captured in bronze by artist Paul Moore. It is one of the

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Texola Ghost Town

  Texola Ghost Town Texola is a living Ghost Town meaning there are still people living there even though the town is mostly abandoned.  Texola sits on the border of Texas and Oklahoma on old Route 66.  There are many abandoned buildings including a 1930 Magnolia Gas Station and a

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Simpson Springs Pony Express Station

  Simpson Springs Pony Express Station The 1861 mail contract listed Simpson’s Springs as a route site, which other sources also identify as Pleasant Springs, Egan’s Springs, and Lost Springs. Fike and Headley place this station eight miles west of Government Creek. George Chorpenning found the site promising in 1851,

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Randall Covered Bridge

  Randall Covered Bridge The Randall/Burrington Covered Bridge is a historic queenpost truss covered bridge in Lyndon Vermont is one of five covered bridges in Lyndon. It formerly carried Burrington Bridge Road across the Passumpsic River; it has been bypassed by a modern bridge. It was listed on the National

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Meteor Crater

  Meteor Crater Fifty thousand year ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky. It struck the Earth in what is now northern Arizona, exploding with the force of 2 1/2 million tons of TNT, or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. 

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Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch

  Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch is a landmark on Route 66 located near Oro Grande California in the Mojave Desert.  Elmer grew up in California and accompanied his father on trips to the desert where they collected  most anything they could find, including bottles

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