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  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    My dad took us tent camping with daily hikes every summer while I was growing up. To this day, I still love camping and hiking and have a great love for our national parks. My goal is to visit every one before I die - my bucket list!

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    Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    1987 was the first time I saw the Grand Canyon, and I was pregnant with my first child. I promised myself that I would return with my children to this magnificent place. 2002 and four children later we made our first family trip to a National Park, which is when…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    In the spring of 1993, I asked my then 12 year old son where he wanted to go for our summer vacation. He had a choice: Disney World or a road trip out west to the Grand Canyon. To my surprise, he didn't even hesitate--he wanted to see the Grand…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Our family took the steam train from Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon. The train pulls into the station, and you walk up the steps to the south rim. While my wife and I waited for our luggage, my three sons ran up the steps to take a look. My…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    When I was a kid, My parents would take us on long trips through the country stopping at different national parks along the different routes of each trip. It was an incredible gift. I saw so may of the beautiful places this country has to offer. But one trip I…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My parents went to the Grand Canyon in the late 1920s before I was born. They took me and my three sisters to the Grand Canyon, among other parks such as Yellowstone, Carlsbad and Yosemite on a great family vacation after World War II. My husband and I took our…

  • Greetings from Denali National Park & Preserve

    Denali wasn't my first park experience. I'd long been raised to love the outdoors and my parents actually took my brother and I on a month-long, cross-country tour of national parks when we were kids: from East Texas to Big Bend, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone and more than I can remember.…

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    Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I had just returned home from a seven year tour of duty with the Marine Corps. Arriving home I quickly realized how much my baby brother had grown up. Days turned into weeks and weeks into months and we still didn't have that special bond we had before I left…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Last year I took my daughters, nine and seven, to Summerland in Mount Rainier National Park. Since they were four, we've done one or two night backpacking trips that were great fun, but not to the locations I would have chosen if I were with adults. However, on this trip…

  • Greetings from Buffalo National River

    I grew up a pastor’s kid and I had four siblings. As you might expect, we did not have a lot of money to take vacations. However, we could afford to camp in the natural beauty of the National Parks. That is exactly what we did. Some of my best…

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