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

[Julie Johnson]

My son and I visited Yellowstone as a part of a longer vacation.  We went 
through a tour company.  I think that particular tour was Grayline, but 
there are lots of other companies that do similar day tours.  The tour van 
picked us up at the hotel, provided all the day transportation, gave loads 
of verbal descriptions and then dropped us back at the hotel at the end of 
the day. We had a number of stops where we got out of the van and walked 
closer to particular park features, so it wasn't all just riding around in 
the van.

This has been probably ten years ago.  I'm remembering the price was 
something like $80 per person for the day, plus a tip.  That included any 
entrance fees and parking fees etc.  Lunch and souvenirs were extra, of 
course.

We've used other similar tour companies for a boat swamp tour in Louisiana, 
plantation tour, and non park, more touristy places.  Once I hired a local 
lady to pick us up at our bed and breakfast and take us clam digging.  She 
was recommended by another hotel owner.   We had a lot of adventures!

Now he's grown up and has his own life.  I'm so glad we went when he was 
younger.  Wonderful memories! I hope you will be able to make it work.  It 
is so much fun to travel with older kids!

Julie
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From: dawn stumpner via BlParent
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 8:18 AM
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Subject: [blparent] advice for how to visit places like national parks

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

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