Travels in the USA Organized by State Updated 12 October 2009 |
Abbreviations used in lists:
NB = National Battlefield; NBP = National Battlefield Park; NF = National Forest; NG = National Grassland;
NHP = National Historical Park; NM = National Monument; NMP = National Military Park; NP = National Park;
NRA = National Recreation Area; NWR = National Wildlife Refuge; BLM = US Bureau of Land Management;
SHP = State Historical Park; SHS = State Historic Site; SM = State Monument; SP = State Park; SWR = State Wildlife Refuge
USFS = US Forest Service
Many additional markers and unmarked sites are included in the list of sites organized by types of sites.
Alabama Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) Moundville Archeological Park (Moundbuilder site) Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Alaska Kenai Fjords NP and Resurrection Bay Arizona Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson Canyon de Chelly NM Casa Grande Ruins NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) Chiricahua Mountains Fort Apache Historic Park (White Mountain Apache) Apache Cultural Center and Museum Fort Apache (1870-1922) Kinishba Ruins (Ancestral Pueblo site) Fort Bowie NHS Grand Canyon NP Homol'ovi Ruins SP (Ancestral Pueblo site) Hubble Trading Post NHS Monument Valley Montezuma Castle NM (Ancestral Pueblo sites) Montezuma Well Unit (limestone sink; Ancestral Pueblo site) Organ Pipe Cactus NM Petrified Forest NP Picacho Peak SP (Civil War battle: April 1862) Saguaro NP Salt River Canyon San Francisco Peaks Sky Island National Scenic Byway (Mount Lemmon) Sunset Crater NM Tonto NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) Tubac Presidio SHS (1752-1848) Tumacacori NHS (Mission ruins: 1691-1800s) Tuzigoot NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) Walnut Canyon NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) Wupatki NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) Arkansas Arkansas Post National Memorial Fort Carlos III (American Revolution battle: April 1783) Fort Hindman (Civil War battle: January 1863) Fort Smith NHS Little Rock Central High School NHS (Civil Rights site; 1957) Louisiana Purchase Historic SP (1815 survey marker) Parkin Archeological SP (Moundbuilder site) Pea Ridge NMP (March 1862) Prairie Grove Battlefield Historic SP (December 1862) Red River Campaign Poison Springs Battlefield SP (18 April 1864) Marks' Mills Battlefield SP (25 April 1864) Jenkins Ferry Battlefield SP (29-30 April 1864) Toltec Mounds Archeological SP (Moundbuilder site) California Anza-Borrego Desert SP Calaveras Big Tree SP Ebbetts Pass National Scenic Byway (California Highway 4) Imperial Sand Dunes Joshua Tree NP Kings Canyon-Sequoia NP Lake Tahoe Lassen Volcanic NP McArthur-Burley Falls Memorial SP Monterey Bay Aquarium - Cannery Row Redwood NP and SP Salton Sea San Diego Zoo Shasta SHP (Gold mining townsite) Whiskytown NRA Yosemite NP Colorado Anasazi Heritage Center (BLM) Escalante Pueblo and Dominguez Pueblo Beecher Island Battlefield park (September 1868) Bent's Old Fort NHS Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP Camp Amache (Granada Relocation Center) site markers Japanese internment site (1942-1945) Canyon Pintado National Historic District (BLM) Fremont and Ute pictographs and petroglyphs Canyons of the Ancients NM (BLM) Sand Canyon Pueblo and Lowrey Pueblo Chimney Rock Archeological Site (USFS; Ancestral Pueblo site) Colorado NM Curecanti NRA Dinosaur NM El Pueblo History Museum Great Sand Dunes NP Kansas Pacific (Union Pacific, Eastern Division) Railroad and "Old" US Highway 40 (US Highway 40 South) Topeka, Kansas to Watkins, Colorado Final Spike marker, Strasburg, Colorado Meeker Massacre site marker (29 September 1879) Mesa Verde NP (Ancestral Pueblo site) Milk River Battlefield park monuments (29 Sep-5 Oct 1879) Pike's Tower / Willow Creek Campsite (Lamar; 1806) Pike's Stockade site (1806-1807) Rifle Falls SP Rocky Mountain NP Sand Creek Massacre NHS (November 1864) [First visitor on opening day for NHS, 1 June 2007] Smoky Hill Trail / Butterfield Overland Despatch (BOD) (Route) Fort Harker, Kansas to Limon, Colorado Yucca House NM (Ancestral Pueblo site) District of Columbia US Capitol Washington Monument Florida Big Cypress National Preserve Castillo de San Marcos NM, St. Augustine Spanish Quarter Everglades NP Florida Keys Georgia Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP (September 1863) Idaho City of Rocks National Reserve (California Trail) De Voto Cedar Grove (US Forest Service) Fort Boise site (Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area, Parma) Fort Hall replica (Pocatello) Nez Perce NHP Camas Prairie Canoe Camp (Corps of Discovery, September-October 1805) Clearwater Battlefield (12 July 1877) Cottonwood Skirmishes (3 and 5 July 1877) Lolo Pass (Corps of Discovery, Sept 1805 and June 1806) Long Camp (Corps of Discovery, spring 1806) Weippe Prairie (Corps of Discovery, Sept 1805, June 1806) White Bird Battlefield (17 June 1877) Northwest Passage National Scenic Byway (US Highway 12) Thousand Springs State Scenic Byway (US Highway 30) Snake River Valley west of Twin Falls Three Island Crossing SP (Oregon Trail, Snake River crossing) Illinois Black Hawk SHS Cahokia Mounds SHS (Moundbuilder site) Lewis and Clark SHS Lincoln Home NHS U.S. Grant Home SHS Indiana Angel Mounds SHS (Moundbuilder site) George Rogers Clark NHP Capture of Fort Sackville (February 1779) Grouseland (Home of William Henry Harrison; 1803-1812) New Harmony - Grave of Thomas Say Tippecanoe Battlefield and Museum (November 1811) Iowa Effigy Mounds NM (Moundbuilder site) Herbert Hoover NHS Lincoln Highway (US Highway 30) Lincoln Hotel, Lowden 1910 bridge, Mount Vernon Iowa Seedling Mile, west of Mount Vernon Youngsville Station, west of Cedar Rapids Lincoln Highway Bridge, Tama Merle Hay Memorial, Glidden Original brick pavers, Woodbine Sergeant Floyd Monument (Corps of Discovery), Sioux City Kansas Alcove Spring Park (Oregon Trail; Marshall Co.) Allen County Hsitorical Society Museum (Iola) Frederick Funston Boyhood Home and Museum Beecher Bible and Rifle Church (Wabaunsee) Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery (Lindsborg) Black Jack Battlefield Park (June 1856; Douglas Co.) Brown v. Board of Education NHS (Civil Rights site; 1954) Camp Concordia site (World War II POW camp; Cloud Co.) Housed ~4000 German prisoners, 1943-1945 Limestone guard tower restored Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park (Wichita) Dockum (Rexall) Drugs lunch-counter sit-in bronze statue First such Civil Rights sit-in in the nation (July-August 1958) Cheyenne Bottoms State Wildlife Refuge (Barton Co.) Constitution Hall SHS (Lecompton) Coronado-Quivira Museum (Lyons) Probable Coronado Expedition terminus area (1541) Cosmosphere, Hall of Space Museum (Hutchinson) Cottonwood Ranch SHS (1885-1896; Sheridan Co.) Eisenhower Center (Abilene) Boyhood Home, Museum, Library, and Gravesite El Cuartelejo Pueblo site (1600s; Scott Co., Scott Lake SP) Ellis County Historical Society Museum (Hays) First Territorial Capitol SHS (1855; Fort Riley) Flint Hills National Scenic Byway (Chase and Morris Cos.) Fort Dodge (Ford Co.) Fort Ellsworth site marker (Ellsworth Co.) Kanopolis Reservoir Wildlife Area Fort Harker Museum (Ellsworth Co.) Fort Hays SHS (Ellis Co.) Fort Hays-Fort Dodge Military Road Fort Larned NHS (Pawnee Co.) Fort Scott NHS (Bourbon Co.) Fort Wallace Cemetery and Museum (Wallace Co.) Fort Zarah park and marker (Barton Co.) Geographic Center of the 48 Conterminous States (Smith Co.) Grinter Place SHS (Wyandotte Co.) Hollenberg Station SHS (Washington Co.) (Oregon Trail and Pony Express) Humboldt Civil War History Tour markers (Allen Co.) Raided and burned by Confederates (October 1861) Camp Hunter (Militia camp established after raid) Independence Creek (Atchison and Doniphan Cos.) Named by Lewis & Clark, July 4, 1804 John Brown SHS (Osawatomie) Kansas History Museum (Topeka) Kansas Pacific (Union Pacific, Eastern Division) Railroad and "Old" US Highway 40 (US Highway 40 South) Topeka, Kansas to Watkins, Colorado Kaw Mission SHS (Santa Fe Trail; Council Grove, Morris Co.) Louis Vieux Cemetery (Pottawatomie Co.) Red Vermillion River Crossing (Oregon Trail) Lower Cimarron (Wagon Bed) Spring (Santa Fe Trail; Grant Co.) Mennonite Settlement Museum (Hillsboro, Marion Co.) Peter Paul Loewen House Jacob Friesen Windmill (replica) Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum (Wichita) Keeper of the Plains steel sculpture Middle Cimarron Spring (Santa Fe Trail; Cimarron NG) Mine Creek Battlefield SHS (October 1864; Linn Co.) Mount Sunflower: Highest point in state (Wallace Co.) Mushroom Rock SP (Ellsworth Co.) Native American Heritage Museum SHS (Doniphan Co.) Nicodemus NHS (exoduster town, founded 1877; Graham Co.) Old Dutch Windmill (1879; Wamego, Wabaunsee Co.) Old Mill Museum (1898; Lindsborg, McPherson Co.) Pawnee Rock SHS (Santa Fe Trail; Barton Co.) Pawnee Village SHS (~1800; Republic Co.) Pike Monument (1806 expedition; west of Delphos, Ottawa Co.) Point of Rocks (Santa Fe Trail; Cimarron NG) Pony Express Home Station No. 1 Museum (Marysville) Punished Woman Fork (Ladder Creek) Battlefield site marker (September 1878; Scott Co.) Quivira NWR (Stafford Co.) Santa Fe Trail Center (Larned, Pawnee Co.) Scott Spring park (Oregon Trail; Pottawatomie Co.) Shawnee Indian Mission SHS (Johnson Co.) Butterfield Overland Despatch (BOD) / Smoky Hill Trail (Route) Fort Harker (Ellsworth Co.) to Limon, Colorado Smoky Valley Ranch, The Nature Conservancy (Logan Co.) Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (Spring Hill Ranch; Chase Co.) U.S. Cavalry Museum, Fort Riley (Geary Co.) Victims of Indian Raids Memorials Delphos Cemetery, Anna Morgan gravesite (Oct 1868) Courthouse Monument (May 1869, Lincoln Co.) Fort Wallace Cemetery, German family gravesite (Sep 1874) William Allen White House SHS (Emporia, Lyon Co.) Zebulon Pike Monument (1806; near Delphos, Ottawa Co.) Zebulon Pike Plaza markers (1806; Larned, Pawnee Co.) Pawnee River Crossing markers (Santa Fe Trail) Kentucky Blue Licks Battlefield SP (August 1782) Columbus-Belmont SP (Battle: November 1861) John James Audubon SP and Museum Land Between the Lakes NRA (US Forest Service) Perryville Battlefield SHP (October 1862) Wickliffe Mounds SP (Moundbuilder site) Louisiana Fort Jesup SHS (US border fort, 1822-1846) Fort St. Jean Baptiste SHS (French border fort 1714-1762+) Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve Chalmette Battlefield (January 1815) Los Adaes SHS (Spanish capital of Texas 1719-1773) Mansfield SHS (8 April 1864): Red River Campaign Pleasant Hill (9 April 1864) Mansura marker (16 May 1864) Yellow Bayou (Simmesport; 18 May 1864) Marksville SHS (Moundbuilder site) Port Hudson SHS (May-July 1863) Poverty Point SHS (Paleoindian site) Maine Acadia NP Maryland Antietam NB (September 1862) Catoctin (National) Mountain Park Massachusetts Adams NHP (Homes of John Adams and John Quincy Adams) Boston NHP (Freedom Trail) Minute Man NHP (April 1775) USS Constitution Michigan Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Grand Sable Dunes, Grand Sable Falls, and Miners Falls Minnesota Birch Coulee Battlefield SHS (2 September 1862) Camp Release SM (26 September 1862) Crow Wing County (Blue Lake) Fort Ridgely SP-SHS (Battle site: 20 and 22 August 1862) Lake Itasca - Mississippi River Headwaters Lake Superior, North Shore Lower Sioux Agency SHS (Battle site: 18 August 1862) Wood Lake SM (23 September 1862) Mississippi Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site (June 1864) Corinth Battlefield (May 1862; October 1862) Emerald Mound, Natchez Trace Parkway (Moundbuilder site) Vicksburg NMP (March-July 1863) Chickasaw Bayou site (December 1862) Port Gibson site markers (1 May 1863) Raymond site markers (12 May 1863) Champion Hill sites (16 May 1863) Big Black River Bridge (17 May 1863) |
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