You may have been to Niagara Falls, but have you ever ridden the Maid of the Mist? It was an amazing experience that was very much worth the price of admission. Since we couldn’t travel into Canada easily during the recent pandemic, we wanted to see Niagara Falls up close. The…
The Baseball Hall of Fame is located way out in the middle of upstate New York. It takes some effort to get there, but the small city of Cooperstown is worth the visit. The entire town is dedicated to the sport of baseball. Cooperstown's Main Street is lined with stores and…
The Priesthood Restoration site of the LDS Church is located in Pennsylvania. This site is quite a bit south of most of the sites in New York, but it is worth the drive as it has been greatly expanded. The Priesthood Restoration site includes several things to see and do including…
We did a three week tour through the Midwest and saw almost every LDS Church History site. Almost all of the sites are run by missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but a few, like the Kirtland Temple, are in other hands. On our trip, we picked…
The Whitmer Farm is a Church history site that is a bit out of the way, but definitely significant to LDS Church History. It was also our boys’ favorite site because there are a few interactive games in the Visitor Center. We were greeted by missionaries when we entered the Visitor…
There is a large Visitor Center at the Hill Cumorah in Palmyra, New York. This site commemorates the place where Joseph Smith found the Golden Plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon. There are several other LDS Church History sites in this area including the Smith Family Farm, the…