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  • Greetings from Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    TRNP was my 84th park when I visited it in September 2021. The golden cottonwood trees, rolling hills, and the angry sky made for a moment I'll never forget.

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    Sequoia National Park is my favorite place in the United States. I have visited the park 5 times since 1974 from my east coast residences. My career has sent me on travel to California in 1995 for 3 weeks and 3 times between 2017 and 2018. Walking amongst the giant…

  • Greetings from Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

    Taking Friends Across the USA Summer job in 1974, I planned a cross-country camping trip with 2 other guys and 2 girls from work in Manchester, NY. Girls shared one tent, 2 guys in one tent, and other guy slept in a hammock. We stopped at Mount Rushmore and Wind…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    In 2004, I rode my bicycle from Nogales, AZ to Glacier National Park. It was an incredible journey full of regular biking experiences, passing thru the spine of America on 2 wheels, taking in the sights, smells and sounds of the country. As an added bonus, I entered and enjoyed…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    We’re a family of four from South Carolina that includes a son in fourth grade and a daughter in college. A tradition of ours is to take at least one vacation each year to a national park. For Christmas 2021, we planned to visit Grand Canyon National Park and Saguaro…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    The Rocky Mountain National Park was my summer home every year of the first eighteen years of my life. My grandparents rented the largest cabin at Jack Woods Cabin Camp just inside the old Thompson River entrance to the park, where our extended family congregated each year. I grew up…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    When I was 8 my family took a trip to Bryce and Zion National Parks. I don't remember much, but I definitely remember hiking among the hoodoos along Navajo Loop. This summer I decided to take my daughter, also 8, on the same trip. It was incredible to see how…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. I was 20 when I first visited a national park. My best friend and I took a 10 day road trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was 1980 and the first day we were driving down a switchback and turned the…

  • Greetings from Gateway Arch National Park

    “I can’t believe this is a national park,” I said upon seeing the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. When I think about national parks, I imagine dense forests, solid rock formations, or other stunningly beautiful natural structures, not a 630 feet tall steel, man-made arch. I couldn’t help but wonder…

  • Greetings from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

    In 1982, when I was 17, my parents drove me halfway up Michigan to my aunt and uncle's cottage. After spendingt the night with them, I got on a bus to the UP to visit my cousin Deb and her husband Jim and their two small boys. They planned all…

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