The Gipper Posted June 16, 2018 Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 While on the subject of National Parks, I just got back yesterday from a near 2 week vacation. (a week in Hilton Head and some time in Alabama, Tenn, and NC). On this trip I did go to 4 National Park units I had not been to before. These are all fairly new ones, no more than 3 years old. Here are the ones I went to: https://www.nps.gov/reer/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Freedom Riders National Monument: https://www.nps.gov/frri/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument: https://www.nps.gov/bicr/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 The Manhattan Project National Monument, Oak Ridge Tenn. unit: FYI....this is where they produced the fissionable material for the bomb they dropped on Hiroshima. I was right here at this place. https://www.nps.gov/mapr/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted June 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2018 And just FYI.....of the 417 National Park units, I have now been to 342 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 Been to Los Alamos in N.M. but never to the Trinity site there. It's only open to the public the first Sat. in April and Oct. every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjp28 Posted June 17, 2018 Report Share Posted June 17, 2018 Wow, very interesting sites indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted June 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2018 On 6/16/2018 at 11:01 PM, TexasAg1969 said: Been to Los Alamos in N.M. but never to the Trinity site there. It's only open to the public the first Sat. in April and Oct. every year. I have been there. Stood right under the spot where that first bomb exploded. Interesting connection though: See this photo of the large casing at the parking lot, Jumbo, a large steel container originally intended to catch the plutonium from the bomb, if the test explosion failed. It was never used. Later, the ends were blown off with a conventional explosion. Standing in Jumbo is a popular photo opportunity. This, I learned while there, was built at the B&W plant right here in Barberton, Ohio....only a few blocks from where I sit right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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