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Boston’s Fenway Park Tour: The Cheapest (and Most Fun) Way to See the Baseball Landmark

If Boston’s Fenway Park is, as advertised, America’s “most beloved” baseball venue, it’d have to be affection of the warts-and-all variety.  For sheer beauty, you’d have to go with Fenway’s only plausible competition for the title of most beloved: Chicago’s Wrigley Field, with its elegant, jewel-box design and ivy-covered outfield walls.  Fenway, on the other…

Biden Creates His First National Park Unit: Amache in Colorado

Update: Amache officially became a Natonal Historic Site on February 15, 2024. Here is its official National Park unit page. Last Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the paperwork that created his first contribution to the National Park Service: the former Camp Amache in southeastern Colorado, about a three-hour drive from Colorado Springs. It was…

Entrance Fee–Free National Park Days in 2024

More than a quarter of the 425 sites managed by the U.S. National Park Service charge entrance fees, ranging in price from $10 to $35.  But on a few select dates each year, the federal agency waives those charges and visitors get to enter every national park, monument, historical site, seashore, forest, or other preserve…