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7. Great Smoky Mountains, April 23-27
After watching the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 21st, we traveled through northern Florida to Georgia, with a stop in Atlanta on Earth Day, April 22, on the way north to Great Smoky Mountains, the next stop on our electric road trip to all 51 National Parks in the Lower 48 […]
5 & 6. Biscayne and Everglades, April 16-20
On the morning of April 16, we left Key West, continuing our electric road trip to all 51 National Parks in the Lower 48 states. We headed back up the Florida Keys to Homestead, which would be our base for visits to the other two National Parks in southern Florida: Everglades at the southern tip […]
4. Dry Tortugas, April 14-16
After cutting short our visit to the flooded Congaree National Park, we left Columbia, South Carolina, on the morning of April 12th to head south on I-26 and I-95 to the three National Parks in southern Florida. Florida is a long state, measuring about 400 miles from Jacksonville in the north to the Keys at […]
3. Congaree, April 11-12
Leaving New River Gorge National Park on April 11th, we traveled south on I-77 to the third park on our electric road trip: Congaree National Park, near Columbia, South Carolina. Established as Congaree Swamp National Preserve in 1975, Congaree became a National Park in 2003. With about 146,000 annual visitors, the park preserves the […]
2. New River Gorge, April 9-11
Leaving Shenandoah National Park on April 9th, we enjoyed a quiet drive south on a snow-dusted Skyline Drive on the way to our next park, New River Gorge. After exiting Skyline Drive, we traveled further south on I-81 and then west on I-64, and finally north on Route 19 to Fayetteville, West Virginia, the gateway […]
1. Shenandoah, April 8-9
After months of planning our road trip to all 51 National Parks in an electric car, we launched our adventure from our home in Alexandria on the morning of April 8th. We packed our Tesla Model Y, Elliot, with six months of equipment for our electric road trip to all 51 National Parks in the […]