Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Category: Trip offering

  • Observing and Journaling in the Wilds of Eastern NC

    One who reviews pleasant experiences and puts them on record increases the value of them to himself; he gathers up his own feelings and reflections, and is thereby better able to understand and to measure the fullness of what he has enjoyed. ~Sir Edward Grey I often get comments like this when I post a Read more…

  • First Bison

    There’s so much for you to see outdoors. The one requirement, you have to be there to see it. ~Greg Dodge The first bison calf of the season was reported yesterday from Yellowstone National Park. It is the first of many hundreds to be born over the next couple of months. Act now and you Read more…

  • Yellowstone in June!

    I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder. ~Ansel Adams Join me, June 2-9, 2016, for an unforgettable experience in an incomprehensibly beautiful place – the world’s first national park, Yellowstone! This year marks 100 years since the creation of the National Park Service, and there is no Read more…

  • Yellowstone this Summer

    …you will remember these fine, wild views, and look back with joy to your wanderings in the blessed old Yellowstone Wonderland. ~John Muir, 1898 Join me, June 2-9, 2016, for an unforgettable experience in the world’s first national park, Yellowstone! Next summer will mark 100 years since the creation of the National Park Service, and Read more…

  • Celebrate America’s Best Idea with a Trip to Yellowstone in June!

    Join me, June 2-9, 2016, for an unforgettable experience in the world’s first national park, Yellowstone! Next summer will mark 100 years since the creation of the National Park Service, and there is no better way to celebrate than by visiting Yellowstone. We will spend our days exploring Yellowstone’s unique thermal areas, beautiful landscapes, and Read more…

  • Spaces Still Available for Yellowstone in June

    But if one steps off the road, even a few hundred feet, and listens, there is a calm to the land, a certain wild rhythm that is closer to the surface than in most places. ~Renee Askins, speaking of Yellowstone My favorite place had a birthday this week. On Sunday, March 1, Yellowstone turned 143 Read more…

  • Spaces Remain for Yellowstone in June…Join me for an unforgettable experience in Yellowstone. Details on my Trips page. Read more…

  • Yellowstone in June!

    Join me for an unforgettable experience in the world’s first national park, Yellowstone! I am offering two trips this summer  – both in June. One includes an extra night in the park’s Northern Range plus an overnight to Grand Teton National Park. Both trips offer small group (4 to 6 participants) field experiences. We will Read more…

  • Join me in Yellowstone this January

    Yellowstone in the summer changed my life. Revisiting in the winter was like going back to an old friend’s house when all the guests have gone home and you get to sit in the den and have long quiet conversations with the residents. ~Mike Leonard, a teacher that experienced Yellowstone in both summer and winter Read more…

  • Visit Yellowstone this May

    The geysers and hot springs . . . display an exuberance of color and strange motion and energy admirably calculated to surprise and frighten, charm and shake up the least sensitive out of apathy into newness of life . . . You will be brought to a standstill, hushed and awe-stricken before phenomena wholly new Read more…