On This Day
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While flightseeing is an excellent way to experience many of these remote landscapes, for the purposes of completing my quest, I wanted to set foot within each protected unit—and yes, including both the park and preserve sections if it was a combined national park unit. ↩︎
I’m going to start a little “On This Day” photo challenge to repost one photo per day from last year’s big 100 Day Adventure around the world. Seems like a fun way to look back!
12 photos of bush plane landings in remote Alaskan parks and preserves
We’ve visited some rather remote parks and preserves in Alaska to complete my Treasured Places quest, many of which required chartering a bush flight and consulting with maps and the pilot to figure out where we might be able to land1. Sometimes that’s on a lake, sometimes on a beach, sometimes it’s a gravely flat spot…but it’s nearly always a unique experience.
Here are a dozen such landings.
Misty Fjords National Monument
Aniakchak National Monument
Gates of the Arctic National Park
Admiralty Island National Monument
Alagnak Wild River
Katmai National Park
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
(And yes, those are indeed grizzly bear prints on the right side of the beach)
Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Denali National Preserve
Noatak National Preserve
Kobuk Valley National Park
Somehow I managed to finish #Blaugust2025 already! 31 posts this month. Many of which were “On This Day” photo posts from previous years.
I’m having a blast looking back at “On This Day” photos for each day for #Blaugust2025. Here’s the last five:
A midday stroll down the road
Sunset in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia (no edit, straight from the iphone)
Anyone have a ball of yarn?
Fitzroy Falls, Australia #WaterfallWednesday
White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, AZ - from an #OnThisDay in 2007 visit to help better delineate a parking area so vehicles would stop driving over the formations.
Nothing is no more 📷 #OnThisDay in 2012
Met up with two friends in Vegas #OnThisDay two years ago for some public lands, craft beer, and the completion of a NFL stadium quest.
A few shots of some of the petroglyph panels from Grapevine Canyon, Bridge Canyon Wilderness, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - visited OnThisDay in 2018
I hiked the Hidden Canyon Trail in Zion National Park On This Day in 2014—complete with the same vista, same tree trunk, same ASU hat 😂 from a 2002 hike.
Some fossils in the Kaibab National Forest overlooking Marble Canyon, #opcOnThisDay in 2015.
An absolutely glorious sunset paddle, enjoyed On This Day in 2021.
#SilentSunday #opcOnThisDay in 2019
#WildlifeWednesday from #opcOnThisDay in 2022, a visit to what is now called White Horse Hill National Game Preserve in North Dakota.
I visited because it used to be called Sullys Hill National Park, and well, I have a quest to visit all “former” (decommissioned or transferred) National Park units in the US (because of course I do).
https://rscottjones.com/quests/former-national-park-units-quest/
#GoQuesting #NorthDakota #NationalPark
#opcOnThisDay in 2017, I was lucky to coincide my visit to Pullman National Historical Park (at the time, a newly designated national monument) with Labor Day, which is cool given its infamous role in labor organizing.
#silentsunday #opcOnThisDay in 2019
