[blparent] advice for how to visit places like national parks

[dawn stumpner]

Hi! I was wondering if anyone has some good tips for getting to 
national parks.  I've generally found when I try to research it 
that it's easy to fly to an airport in the general vicinity of a 
national park, say 80 miles away, but it's harder to find 
affordable options (or sometimes any options) to get from the 
airport to the national park, and there doesn't usually seem to 
be a shuttle or something to get to places that are far from each 
other (like where you sleep and eat and the park).  I'm blind and 
don't drive, and now I finally do have one son who drives, but 
he's still too young to rent a car, and I'm not too keen anyway 
on throwing him into driving, say, from LAX Airport in Los 
Angeles to the Redwood Forest.  Are there some national parks 
that are more known for having shuttles or buses? Do you have any 
other ideas? I'd really like to take the kids to Sequoia or the 
Redwoods, but I'm also interested in places like the Everglades, 
Crater Lake in Oregon, Olympia National Park in Washington, Mt.  
Renier, the Smokey Mountains, etc.
     Dawn