This past trip to New York led Julie and I to Grant’s Tomb on the northwest side of Manhattan.  As National Parks go this has to be the most low maintenance park in the country.  There were three other people at the tomb while we were there and one of them was the Park Ranger.  To say it was on a large scale would be an understatement.  The entire building is basically one large room  leading down to where Grant and his wife are held in these massive granite sarcophagi.  The tomb is a little out of the way but well worth the trip if you’re in Manhattan looking to get off the beaten path.

Side Note:

* By far the most interesting part of the Tomb are the busts of Grant’s generals which sit on display around the sarcophagi.  The one watching over Grant is of course William Tecumseh Sherman who once famously said:

“General Grant is a great general. I know him well. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.”

** For those who wonder, Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States and more importantly the Defender Of The Union who won the Civil War.