Virgin Islands main sights
1. Visitor Center. Although small, temporary and lacking interpretive displays, this downtown Cruz Bay location immerses visitors in the island's colorful, laid-back ethos. Supplies are close at hand in nearby...
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Guide to Virgin Islands National Park
GETTING THERE Fly direct from Chicago to Miami or San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then take a connecting flight to St. Thomas. From there, regular ferries leave for Cruz Bay...
PERSONAL BESTS
I travel because of an intense curiosity, a need to examine the reality of faraway places. Some people want to meet Barbra Streisand or Tiger Woods. I longed to see...
Death Valley facts
Established as a national park: Oct. 31, 1994. It was a national monument beginning Feb. 11, 1933. Area: 3,336,000 acres (more than double the size of Delaware). Visitors: 1,233,586 in...
Death Valley visitors
1986 ............ 611,113* 1987 ............. 692,964 1988 ............. 721,111 1989 ............. 692,136 1990 ............. 719,754 1991 ............. 774,591 1992 ............. 905,399 1993 ........... 1,037,044 1994 ........... 1,008,598 1995 ........... 1,151,719...
Death Valley main sights
A park guide published by the Automobile Club of Southern California lists 49 points of interest, and there are easily that many. Here are a dozen that a visitor shouldn't...
A guide to Death Valley
GETTING THERE Las Vegas is the nearest city served by major airlines. From there, drive south on Interstate Highway 15 to Nevada Highway 160 and go west. At Pahrump, Nev.,...
More valuable than gold
DEATH VALLEY, Calif--Those who write about Death Valley often begin with a confession. This is mine: I had always pictured Death Valley as hot and white, glaring to the point...
Saguaro visitors
Precise visitation figures for Saguaro East and West were not available. A park official pointed out that, technically speaking, some 3 million people enter the park each year, because they...
As wet as it needs to be
It would be easy to get off the road, walk for awhile, duck beneath a knoll in the shade of a huge saguaro cactus plant and imagine oneself on a...