National Park Traveling

Welcome to National Park Traveling!
Welcome to NationalParkTraveling.com, home to Big Blend’s digital “Parks & Travel” Magazine and Podcast, an online travel planning directory, and a wealth of articles, interviews and podcasts, and videos covering park travel across America and around the world. This site is published by Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, Big Blend’s mother-daughter travel, publishing, and radio team, who are traveling full-time on their Love Your Parks Tour, a quest to visit and cover all of America’s parks and public lands, along with their local communities.


LATEST ARTICLES & PODCAST INTERVIEWS: 

Early Pottery of the Southwest US

Hiking Destinations Across America & Beyond  

Easy Hiking Experiences in the UK

Bears and Volcanoes at Katmai National Park  

Celestial Journey at Cape Breton National Park 

Astrophotographer Stan Honda in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park  

Flying High on Colorado’s San Juan Skyway

Fly Fishing the Flathead River at the Edge of Glacier 

New National Geographic “National Parks: USA” Series 

Musician Rachel Mari Kimber Goes to Saguaro National Park  

New Mexico’s Caves, Cliff Dwellings & Ceremonial Sites

Listen to Big Blend Radio’s “Parks & Travel”