16 
PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
National 
Pa r k s 
Vacation 
Tour 
The Massachusetts Forestry Association 
has arranged to give an extended tour of 
our national parks the coming summer 
for its members and others until the full 
registration that can he accommodated is 
made. Arrangements have been made with 
the Service to have its representatives meet 
the party along the way and point out the 
peculiar prolilems which each territory 
presents. 
The complete tour will take eight weeks. 
If eight weeks are out of the question, a 
partial tour, lasting three or more weeks, 
may be arranged. 
The business management has been 
placed in the hands of a travel expert who 
had charge of a similar tour of the Ameri- 
can Civic .\ssociation last season. It proved 
to be all that was promised and more. 
Dr. C. L. Babcock, of the Bureau of 
University Travel, is the tour director, and 
complete information may be had by ad- 
dressing him at 31 Trinity place, Boston, 
Mass. Harris A. Reynolds is secretary of 
the Masachusetts Forestry Association. 
Following is a descriptive outline of the 
itinerary planned : 
Tune 2.*^. Thursday. Leave Boston via Boston & 
AU)any, 2:00 P. if. 
June 20. Friday. AiTivc in ChieaiiO. 0:.00 P. M. 
Leave Cliicapfo at 11:00 P. M. over the C. B. & Q. 
June 00. Saturday. En route. 
.Tilly 1. Sunday. Ariive in Denver early inorn- 
in,^. Proceed to Kooky ifountain National Park. 
July 2. Monday; July S. Tuesday. Rocky Mountain 
National Park. One of the youngest of the Parks. 
Some will prefer to rest from their journey, en- 
joying the glorious views. Trails long and short 
will tempt others. It will he well to he cautious 
at first till we become accustomed to the altitude 
and are aide to ride or “hike” without fatigue. 
At the request of the Forest Service, an alterna- 
native will be offered as follows: Sunday in 
Denv(‘r, on to Colorado Springs in late afternoon 
(Hotel Antlers'). Pike’s Peak by automobile Mon- 
day. The route takes us through rugged and 
beautiful mountains and through the heart of the 
Tike National Forest, where areas illustrate the 
woik of the Forest Service in the reforestation and 
the protection of city watersheds. Return to Den- 
ver on Tuesday, connecting with the main group 
in the afternoon. This alternative is offered with- 
out extra charge if the choice is made before the 
tour starts. 
July 4. Wednesday. En route. C. B. & Q. 
July T). Thursday, to July 10, Tuesday. The 
Yellowstone National Park. A six-day tour through 
this Wonderland of Wonderlands, using the ex- 
cellent hotels and the new ten-passenger automo- 
bile service which will replace the old horse-drawn 
stages in the summer of 101". This much-needed 
change will greatly increase the time available at 
points of interest and will eliminate the tedious 
features that have heretofore marred the trip 
through the Yellowstone Park. 
The Mammoth Hot Springs, the T.ower Geyser 
Basin, the T'ppcr Basin, with Old Faithful and 
scores of other geysers- — some more wonderful than 
Old Faithful itself — the limpid loveliness of the 
Morning Glory Pool, the weird boiling of the 
Paint Pots, the glory of the Canyon with its 
many hues, tiie nasty, sullen roar of the Mud 
Geyser — all defy description. Yet. were aP these 
removed, the Yellowstone National Park would still 
he an ideal vacation land for nature lovers. As 
it is, there is nothing like it in all the world. 
July 11. Wednesday. En route. Great Northern. 
July 12, Thursday, to July 17, Tuesday. The 
Glacier National Park. Six days in this most 
Alpine of the National Parks. The superb scenery 
equals the host in the Canadian Rockies. Auto- 
mohilo to Many Glacier Hotel on Lake McDermott. 
Here in a beautiful hotel we make our head- 
quarters. The sehedule is so arranged ns to permit 
tliose wlm wish to make excursions to Iceberg 
and Ptarmigan Lakes and over Swiftenrront. piegan 
and Gunsight Passes. Good walkers will make 
some of these trips on foot. Horses are available 
for those who wish them. Experience in horse- 
manship not necessary. Anyone can make these 
excursions who is in good physical condition and 
is willing to endure some stiff muscles in part 
luiymont f<.r Hie experiimee of a lifetime. Piegan 
Pass takes ns to Lake St. Mavy ami Giinsight 
Pa.ss to Lake McDonald. 
Those who do not care to make the Passes will 
spend mere time at Lake McDermott and then 
visit Lakes St. Mary and McDonald by auto, boat 
and rail. Numerous shorter excursions are available 
fivHu each place. Excellent fishing near at hand. 
The extra cost of trail trips has not been in- 
cluded in the price of the tour, since some will 
wish to omit them and others will make some of 
tliein on foot. The cost of saddle-horsh and guide 
averages about $3.00 per day. Credit will he al- 
lowed for automobile am! other transrortation in- 
cliidod in the piiee hut not used, thus reducing 
tlu* extra cost to about ten dollars, even for those 
wlio make all tlie trail trips in the saddle. 
July IS. Wednesday. En route. Great Northern. 
July 10. Thui-sday. Lake Chelan. A verilahle 
fresh-watur fjord in the midst of the Chelan Na- 
tional Forest. This heautiful lake is over oO miles 
buLU with an average width of only l 1-4 miles. 
Milo-liigli )ienks of tlio Cascade Range rise abruptly 
from its shores. ,V representative of the National 
Fori'st Service will accompany us on this trip. 
Julv 20. Friday, and July 21. Saturday. Seattle. 
TTfitol Wasliington. Room with private bath. Au- 
tomoliile drive about tlie city and its heautiful 
jiarks. The campus of the Piiiversity of Wasli- 
ingtoTi. Lake Washington and the first glimpse 
of Ranier's snowy crown. Late afternoon sail 
through Puget Sound to Tacoma while, if the 
weatlier is clear, the setting sun slieds changing 
dories on the wondrous mountain tliat looms on 
tlie horizon, over sixty miles away. 
July 22. Sunday, to July 24, Tuesday. Ranier 
National Park and Forest. Paradise Inn. We 
make tlie trip from Tacoma liy automobile. This 
is one of the most heautiful rides in the world. 
First, straight as an arrow, over .gently undulating 
country toward the hoary giant that always beck- 
ons: through gorge and along hillsides clad with 
majestic firs — almost ns impressive as the Sequoia 
— jinst the point wliere tlie muddy snout of Nis- 
qiially Glacier threntons to root out the road that 
puny man has made, on and up till at last, nl- 
ways by easy grnile over iierfect roads, we reaeli 
I’nradise Valley. This flower-carpeted “valley” 
h-uigs a mile in tlie air. hut straight above it. 
two miles higher over our heads, towers the 
ni’ghty mountain. Fourteen great ice rivers flow 
down from the summit — the lar.gest glacier system 
south of Alaska. Here, though it will he mid- 
simiiner. we may indulge in Ranier’s famous 
“winter” sports, or mav choose less strenous ways 
1o enjov the mountain in its various moods. 
Tlie Tinnier Forest, through which we pass, shows 
scirs of many a forest fire. Representatives of 
tli<‘ Forest Service will explain what is being done 
now in the way of fire prevention. 
Tilly 2-". Wednesday, to July 27. Friday. Port- 
biiid. the City of Roses. Hotel Imperial. A con- 
foronce on Scientific ^lilling in connection with a 
visit to one of the great lumber mills where logs 
six feet in diameter are rediioed to shihs, planks 
and beams as easily as a boy wliittles a stick. 
These mills out a hnlf-million feet of lumber per 
day. 
.Vecompanied by a representative of tlie Forest 
Servir-e. we .shall make an all-da,v auto trip out 
the famous Columbian Highway, destined to rank 
among the most famous of scenic boulevards. W'e 
liass the heautiful Multnomah Falls, over 700 feet 
higli. and enjoy a picnic lunch at the Eagle Creek 
Camp, whieli is one of the best examples of the 
recTCiitional facilities furnished by the National 
Forest Service. 
The next day, .nnother auto ride takes us among 
the foothills of Mt. Hood to the Forest Nursery 
of the Wind River 'N^alley. where over five million 
young trees are growing, to be used in reforesting 
burned areas. We shall also visit a Douglass Fir 
Timber S'ale area, where the good, results of scien- 
tific logging methods are clearly seen. 
Leave Portland over the Southern Pacific. 
July 2'S. Saturday, to .July 30. Monday. Crater 
Lake Natinnnl Park and Forest. We enter by auto 
from Medford, pass through miles of Forest Re- 
serve and, at last, at an altitude of over 7,000 
feet, find a comfortable lodge on the rim of a 
vast crater. In the depths, its surface, 1,200 feet 
below US, is a lake Oif sapphire, beautiful beyond 
description. The ciuter is thirty miles in circum- 
ference, and an automobile road is in process of 
construction about the nm. This is bound to rank 
as one of tlie greatest of scenic highways. 
We leave the park by way of Klamath Lake and 
have opportunity to inspect the Pelican Bay Timber 
Sale, where, under the direction of the Forest 
Service, we shall see what Scientific Logging ac- 
complishes. As our train moves .soutliward in the 
late afternoon, we pass within sight of Mt. Shasta. 
July :il. Tuesday, to August 2. Thursday. San 
I’l'aucisco. Hotel Bellevue. Room with private 
bath. Three, days in the cit.v by the Golden Gate. 
Automohile ride through the city, Golden Gate 
T’ark, the Presidio, etc.; also across the bay to 
Berkeley. Alameda. Oakland. A conference in the 
Greek JJicatre at Berkeley; suliject, “Various As- 
pe<-ts of the Conseiwation Problem — The Present 
and tlie Future, the State and the Nation.” 
August 3. Friday, to August 7, Tuesday, Yose- 
mite National Park. Five days in a campers’ 
paradise. The comfortable Yosemito Camp will he 
our headipiwarters. This is located at the foot of 
Vosemite Fall. The price includes an excursion 
by automohile through the Mariposa Grove of big 
trees. Other excursions are optional. Many will 
make them on foot. Horses, and in some case.s 
carriages or autos, are available. 
The Yosemitc' A’alley is hut seven miles long. 
Within it are a dozen waterfalls higher than 
Niagara. The combined height of upper and lower 
Yosemite Falls, near our camp, is l.SOO feet, the 
highest in the world. TIie.se falls are the peculiar 
hut by no means the only charm of what is per- 
haps the most popular of all the national parks. 
On the tnp to Mariposa Grove we shall vifeit 
the Signal Peak fire lookout station of the Sierra 
National Forest, and will have thoroughly explained 
to us the fire jirotection system used on the na- 
tional forests. From this lookout point, one gets 
la magnificent panorama of a large portion of the 
Sierra Forest and Yosemite Park. The anto road 
goes to the very top of Signal Mountain, within 
a few yards of the lookout station. 
On leaving the park by anto, we enter the 
Sh'vra National Forest. Wo also pass through 
areas of forest not under govornment control, 
wliei'(‘ logging operations are being carried on in 
a way that emphasizes strongly the need of na- 
tional ffU’osts. The night at Fresno. 
August S. Wednesday, and August 0. Thursday. 
The General Grant National Park. IMore of the 
Big Trees and their story. We shall also vi.sit 
Hume, a Inmher town in the heart of the Sequoia 
National Forest. An interesting feature here is a 
fifty - four - mile liimhor flume winding down the 
mountain. 
August 10. Friday, to August 12. Sunday, Los 
.\ngeles. Hotel Alexandria. Automohile ride about 
the city, visiting that strange pit at Rancha la 
Brea, whose asphalt depths have proved an animal 
tiap through literally millions of years, and vis- 
iting the museum where the skeletons of these 
strange beasts are to he seen. We shall also have 
an automohile lide to Pasadena and shall take a 
day’s excursion to the Island of Santa Catalina. 
Optional visit with the supervisor of the Angeles 
National Forest to the Los Angeles Municipal Camp. 
J'lie supervisor will emphasize tlie work of the 
Foro.st S'ervioo in connection with public recreation, 
.August 13, Monda.v, and August 14. Tuesday. 
San Diego. Hotel IT. S. Grant. Uie beautiful 
Bnll»oa T’ark. where the greater part of San Diego’s 
Exposition is still intact and as interesting ns in 
inin. Ride to Point Loma. 
August 1.", Wednesday. Riverside. The famous 
Mission Inn, unique among hotels. Motor next 
day to Mt. Ronhidonx, thence via Redlands to San 
Bernardino, where we hoard onr train for the 
East over the Santa Fe route, 
August 17, Friday, and August IS. Saturday. 
The Grand Canyon,. Inhere is nothing like the 
Grand Canyon in all the world. Where standards 
of comparison fail, attempted description is use- 
less, It is a fitting climax to a wonderful sum- 
mer. We spend two full days there. Tlie El 
Tovar Hotel will be our comfortable headquarters. 
Tfie rim drive will ho provided. The descent into 
the canyon, which many will think too fatiguing. 
