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Outside Magazine May 2002
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Destinations: National Parks
The Best of the Rest (Cont.)

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Mesa Verde, Colorado / 52,122 acres
Most tourists stick to the paved walkways. You, of course, hit the dirt. HIKE the rarely traveled Petroglyph Point Trail, a 2.8-mile out-and-back starting at the Spruce Tree House, and you'll stand eye-to-eye with dozens of 900-year-old Anasazi petroglyphs.
970-529-4465, www.nps.gov/meve

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Ashford, Washington / 235,625 acres
Summit 14,410-foot Rainier via the pristine, little-traveled Tahoma Glacier route on the mountain's southwestern slope. Grade II-III MOUNTAINEERING skills are required; the technically challenged can stop just below 11,000 feet at St. Andrews Rock, from which, on a clear day, you can see Seattle.
360-569-2211, www.nps.gov/mora

NATIONAL PARK OF AMERICAN SAMOA
Pago Pago, American Samoa / 9,000 acres
Camping is not permitted in this lush South Pacific wilderness. But the park's homestay program lets you sleep in a fale, an open-air thatch-roofed hut, with a native Samoan family, who'll teach you to weave palm baskets and fans—or just show you the best spots for DIVING and SNORKELING.
011-684-633-7082, www.nps.gov/npsa

NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK
Sedro-Woolley, Washington / 504,781 acres
Your reward for hauling your MOUNTAIN BIKE on the ferry for the 50-mile trip up Lake Chelan to the Purple Point Visitors Center: a stunningly beautiful ride past gorges and glacier-fed waterfalls on the gravel Stehekin Valley Road (23 miles one-way). Stay at one of several primitive campsites along the route.
360-856-5700, www.nps.gov/noca




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