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  • Greetings from Isle Royale National Park

    In 2004 I stepped off a boat from Cooper Harbor at Isle Royale National Park. That visit changed my life. I have been back every year since as a student, volunteer, teacher, paddler, backpacker and moose bone collector. The peace I find on the Island is overwhelming. I sleep well…

  • Greetings from Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve

    We have found our National Parks to be a source of motivation, inspiration and learning for our vacations throughout our lifetime. We spent our first anniversary exploring the wonders of Yosemite. That trip became the motivating factor for future trips. Since that time we have planned our vacations around visiting…

  • Greetings from Guadalupe Mountains National Park

    We hit the Guadalupe Mountain Trail early on a March morning after driving eighty miles east of El Paso, Texas through a great salt flat as white as snow. We soon met a Bavarian girl on the trail when we all stopped to put on heavy sweaters in a fiercely…

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    Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I first started working in the parks when I was 15. An organization called the Youth Conservation Corps hired me for the summer, and there I learned how to build trails and fences and take care of natural resources. This picture is of the view of the first night I…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    When my half-brother's in-laws began having lots of old-age problems, he said he wasn't fooling with all that getting-old crap; he was just going to jump into the Grand Canyon. When some friends and I hiked Tonto Trail in 1988, we spent a night at Indian Gardens. We took a…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    This was taken during sunset on Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park in May, 2016. I was visiting Rockport, ME and on my agenda was going to Acadia National Park (two hours away) for a day. After stopping at the Visitor Center, I knew my first stop was going to…

  • Greetings from Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve

    My quest to visit every <a href="http://everything-everywhere.com/north-american-national-parks/">North American National Park</a> recently took me to Gates of the Arctic National Park, one of the most remote and least visited national parks in the US.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    During childhood camping in the Porcupine Mountains and Sleeping Bear Dunes of Michigan - from 1966 when I first saw Glacier National Park and all the years following to the present ... Glacier again in 1972 and again in 1976, this park, along with many others (Mt. McKinley in Alaska…

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    Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I grew up on Mt. Rainier's doorstep, and my dad taught me to love and respect everything the outdoors had to offer. With him I visited many of the west's National Parks - from the Redwoods to Yellowstone to Arches and so many more in between. Even after I left…

  • Greetings from Badlands National Park

    Saw these beautiful rams on a hike. It was around 9:00am on Castle Trail just off the old ne road.

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