Month: September 2017

Covering an area of over 8,600 acres, the Hickory Creek Wilderness is one of only two specifically designated wilderness areas in the state of Pennsylvania with the entirety of its property located within the state borders. It was designated Hickory…

In an age where the world seems like such a small place and everyone is so closely connected thanks to technology and the Internet, sometimes all you want to do is get out to the middle of nowhere so you…

When you have one of the smallest wilderness areas in the world, it only makes sense to have one of the longest names for a wilderness area to fill the space, both in words and in syllables. Fire Island is…

If you believe everything told to you, we have some swampland in New Jersey to sell you. We always laugh over that joke, making fun of some of our ability to be deceived and willingness to believe even the most…

Texas is such a big state that it can easily be its own country (and yes, for a time it was its own country). And while it does have a lot of land, and it is one of the most…

West Virginia, today bordered by Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Maryland, is a somewhat peculiar state with a peculiar history. While some states made their way into the Union with a whimper, West Virginia did it with a bang based…

West Virginia has sixteen very beautiful and noteworthy historic landmarks, but some exceed the rest. Most are relatively new and have been created only in the last few decades. Each is a historic landmark for different reasons of varying importance.…