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  • Greetings from Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Seattle

    What a hidden gem of history sandwiched between high rises. Learning the history of the Alaskan gold rush, and of Seattles early settlers experiences transported you there. So much history has been lost.

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    I've been looking at Mount Rainier, up close and far away for more than 40 years. It is easy for a park as beautiful and easily accessible as Mount Rainier to be loved to death. I appreciate everything that the rangers on the mountain do to keep this iconic part…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    I visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with my church group in 2023. I was in complete shock since I had been planning on visiting one of the parks but was confused about the long process. Yet here I was, hiking in the busiest national parks in the nation!…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I don’t have a specific story or ranger but am extremely grateful to all park rangers and staff.

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    Visited this park last month… life changing quite literally. This land is truly enchanting and feels sacred. Thank you all for the work you do here.

  • Greetings from Chiricahua National Monument

    Migratory species have existed here long before human science. We need to leave things be.

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    It is hard to pick any individual national park as my sister and I traveled and loved many of our country's National parks over the years. I have picked Yellowstone because it is so beautiful and powerful and because my sister died a couple of years ago. I spread her…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    Picking one park that has impacted my life that I want to protect feels like trying to decide which chocolate bar I want at the gas station. They’re all great. I want them all. I chose Acadia because as a kid my father dragged me around to hundreds of national…

  • Greetings from Crater Lake National Park

    I visited Crater Lake for the first time on my honeymoon. Having traveled 2500 miles, I hoped the cost would be worth it. Nothing prepared me for its magnificence. The park was busy on that August day back in 2003. I didn't understand the hushed silence of the crowd standing…

  • Greetings from Lake Mead National Recreation Area

    This is not just for lake mead but also red rock canyon and mount charleston. These are my places of serenity especially growing up fishing hiking and camping in all of them. Then I went to the marine corps in the 2000s and went to Iraq. When I came back…

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