Shared Stories
Welcome to our Shared Stories section, where visitors and donors to our parks have chosen to share their thoughts and stories regarding our National Parks! Thank you to all who have shared their story with the rest of us!
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Traveling Down Into The Abyss
Metecan Mesut Erdi , February 16, 2012
While on our family road trip in the Southwest, we stopped by one of the nations most beautiful parks: Bryce Canyon and The Grand Canyon. My mom and I were natural explorers so when our family stopped to take pictures of the Grand Canyon...
Metecan Mesut Erdi , February 16, 2012
While on our family road trip in the Southwest, we stopped by one of the nations most beautiful parks: Bryce Canyon and The Grand Canyon. My mom and I were natural explorers so when our family stopped to take pictures of the Grand Canyon...
Alaska So Wild
Mary Branch , January 13, 2012
In 2005 I visited Alaska, first by cruise through the inside passage, then on land up through the north country. It was a life changing experience. Much like my later visit to Africa that year. My feelings for wildlife came forth and made me...
Mary Branch , January 13, 2012
In 2005 I visited Alaska, first by cruise through the inside passage, then on land up through the north country. It was a life changing experience. Much like my later visit to Africa that year. My feelings for wildlife came forth and made me...
Amazing Alaska!
Bonnie Ravesloot , January 12, 2012
My husband and I made our first trip to Alaska this summer on a land/sea tour. It's hard to pick out a favorite moment, from seeing Mt. McKinley, to watching the Margerie Glacier calve into Glacier Bay. One of our most thrilling times was a flight...
Bonnie Ravesloot , January 12, 2012
My husband and I made our first trip to Alaska this summer on a land/sea tour. It's hard to pick out a favorite moment, from seeing Mt. McKinley, to watching the Margerie Glacier calve into Glacier Bay. One of our most thrilling times was a flight...
Unlike Anywhere Else
Glenn Koeppel , January 12, 2012
My wife and I did the tourist version of Alaska. It was our honeymoon. In 2004 we crusied up from Canada. We saw a galcier "calve" (I hope that's right) into the bay. Too cool. The best part though was the bus trip into Denali National Park....
Glenn Koeppel , January 12, 2012
My wife and I did the tourist version of Alaska. It was our honeymoon. In 2004 we crusied up from Canada. We saw a galcier "calve" (I hope that's right) into the bay. Too cool. The best part though was the bus trip into Denali National Park....
L. G. Linkletter
Tom England , January 10, 2012
Last year we visited Seattle and Mount Rainier National Park...very beautiful. We also took the Empire Builder train back to Chicago and would recommend the train ride just to see the beauty of the land and the view of Glacier National Park....
Tom England , January 10, 2012
Last year we visited Seattle and Mount Rainier National Park...very beautiful. We also took the Empire Builder train back to Chicago and would recommend the train ride just to see the beauty of the land and the view of Glacier National Park....
Winter Sunrise in the Everglades
Karla Linn Merifield , December 22, 2011
There is no other place like it on the planet: The Everglades. I return year after year after year, making a mecca to a watershed I have come to call the Holy Land. What a privilege it was to have served as one of the park's...
Karla Linn Merifield , December 22, 2011
There is no other place like it on the planet: The Everglades. I return year after year after year, making a mecca to a watershed I have come to call the Holy Land. What a privilege it was to have served as one of the park's...
Quiet of Winter at Grand Canyon
Yvonne Smith , December 21, 2011
When we told our friends that we were going to the Grand Canyon in early December, they looked at us as if we were crazy. But the quiet and beauty of the park during the winter far surpasses any negatives associated with the cold. Crowds are...
Yvonne Smith , December 21, 2011
When we told our friends that we were going to the Grand Canyon in early December, they looked at us as if we were crazy. But the quiet and beauty of the park during the winter far surpasses any negatives associated with the cold. Crowds are...
Snowshoe to Emerald Lake
Nancy Dadisman , December 21, 2011
I've lived in Colorado for 31 years now. I have always been a nature freak and am so grateful to live so close to one of our national parks. Rocky Mountain National Park has so many beautiful trails, and my husband and I have been trying to do...
Nancy Dadisman , December 21, 2011
I've lived in Colorado for 31 years now. I have always been a nature freak and am so grateful to live so close to one of our national parks. Rocky Mountain National Park has so many beautiful trails, and my husband and I have been trying to do...
Winter Sunset in the Everglades
Karla Linn Merrifield , December 21, 2011
There is no other place like it on the planet. As a poet, I find the Everglades a Holy Land of inspiration. How fortunate I was to have been an Everglades artist-in-residence.
Karla Linn Merrifield , December 21, 2011
There is no other place like it on the planet. As a poet, I find the Everglades a Holy Land of inspiration. How fortunate I was to have been an Everglades artist-in-residence.
Retreat!
Jon R. , December 19, 2011
On the 3rd day of a 25-day backpacking trip, we encountered a glacier where there wasn't supposed to be a glacier, in the Wrangell Mountains of southeast Alaska. After determining that there was no way around this particular ice-field, we...
Jon R. , December 19, 2011
On the 3rd day of a 25-day backpacking trip, we encountered a glacier where there wasn't supposed to be a glacier, in the Wrangell Mountains of southeast Alaska. After determining that there was no way around this particular ice-field, we...
