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  • Greetings from Buffalo National River

    Our extended family took a 9 1/2 hour road trip to the Buffalo River this summer. It was the first time we had traveled together like this. Our oldest member is 68 and our youngest member is 5. We stayed in log cabins built by the CCC in the 1930s.…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    A family trip before our oldest heads off to college!!

  • Greetings from Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

    Outside of Washington, D.C., The C&O Canal National Historical Park offers lots of different activities and challenges better than the best play structures can offer! Here's our daughter and future rock climber honing her skills on the Billy Goat Trail near Great Falls.

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    Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Our whole family took a trip to Yosemite and it was amazing. The kids loved exploring the trails and we all got to bond as a family. Just getting to the parks just really helps connect with nature and also really unwind. We all felt a great connection to each…

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    Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Five straight years of visiting a national park with my now-7-year-old daughter. This year was Yosemite and this photo of my wife and daughter was taken at Olmstead Point in August.

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    Our older daughter lives in Los Angeles so whenever we visit her, we try to visit one of California’s national parks. In 2006, we made the drive to Sequoia National Park. Moro Rock, (which I managed to climb) afforded amazing views of the Sierras. But we were all impressed with…

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    I am a National Park junkie. My parents' first family vacation after World War II in1946 was two weeks camping in Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite. I have vivid recollections of that trip. Two years later, after a 1947 vacation trip to the California redwoods, in 1948, our family…

  • Greetings from Assateague Island National Seashore

    One of the many pictures we got of the feral ponies. We had stopped at the ranger station to get a life time pass for our daughter who has cerebral palsy. Not only did we enjoy seeing the ponies up close, but we were able to access the beach using…

  • Greetings from North Country National Scenic Trail

    My family has adopted a section of the North Country National Scenic Trail within Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota. The closest National Park (Voyageurs) is 200+ miles away so we can't get there too often...but we can get out onto the North Country NST every month of the year.…

  • Greetings from Mount Rushmore National Memorial

    ~Family of 7 went camping every summer visiting all the National Parks & many state parks in every state in the interior USA~ Now I visit the smaller parks I have not been to and have enjoyed making comparisons throughout the world as a single adult. The USA is so…

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