2023 Road Trip Preview

 Welcome to our Summer 2023 Rowland Road Trip! 

Check back here for (hopefully) daily updates about our trip! We plan to leave after church on Sunday, June 11. So I should start posting updates on June 12!

Above is the anticipated route for our 2023 Summer Road Trip. The details are still up in the air after we leave South Dakota. As of right now, we should hit both the east and west coast, along with both Mexico and Canada! Are we crazy? Probably. Will it be an epic trip? You bet! Continue reading to see a list of National Parks (and a few National Monuments) that we plan to visit and a list of states we plan to go through. I think the current estimate is around 10,000 miles over the course of about 6-7 weeks. 

National Parks
Gateway Arch NP
Rocky Mountain NP
Great Sand Dunes NP
Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP
Mesa Verde NP
Petrified Forest NP
Joshua Tree NP
Death Valley NP
Zion NP
Bryce Canyon NP
Grand Canyon NP
Capital Reef NP
Canyonlands NP
Arches NP
Craters of the Moon NM
Grand Teton NP
Yellowstone NP
Theodore Roosevelt NP
Mount Rushmore NM
Devil's Tower NM
Wind Cave NP
Badlands, NP
Jewel Cave NM
Indiana Dunes NP
Cuyahoga Valley NP
New River Gorge NP 
Mammoth Cave NP 
Smoky Mountains NP 
(We will most likely catch 2 of the last 4 on the list... not all 4)

States & Provinces
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Baja California (Tijuana, Mexico)
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Ontario (Canada)
Ohio
West Virginia (Maybe)
Virginia (Maybe)
North Carolina
South Carolina