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  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My husband and I were married in Yosemite Chapel in September 1994. Our reception was at the beautiful Ahwahannee Hotel. Our wedding guests traveled from all over the USA and we all had an amazing four days exploring the park. People still talk about it all these years later!

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Pam and I met at Grand Canyon--I was a seasonal ranger and she was a Fred Harvey girl. We got engaged at Yaki Point and spent our honeymoon at the Albright Center the next summer.

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My story is about the glorious wedding held in Grand Canyon National Park by my grandson and his lovely bride a few years ago. We all gathered at the reserved section, overlooking the canyon about the time the sun was setting. Picture perfect, as it was described by the photographer…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    This summer my husband and I visited 18 states. We were road-warriors with his family and we could not have had a better time - seeing old civil war battlefields in Georgia and Tennessee, walking around the grounds of the Oklahoma City bombings memorial downtown, gazing up the canyons of…

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    Greetings from Badlands National Park

    My husband and I have been visiting National Parks, Monuments, Seashores and Wildlife Reserves since 2003 just after we met. We made a "forever commitment" to each other while enjoying the 360-degree view from the top of Lembert Dome at Yosemite. We were married for real last year and honeymooned…

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    Greetings from Arches National Park

    My now-wife and I took an after-dinner walk from the Devil's Garden Campground up to Skyline Arch on Labor Day 2011. I knew she would want a picture of my proposal, so I set the camera to take 10 pictures and got on my knee on #4...we cried and hugged…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    On my way through Jackson Hole to Yellowstone I witnessed a dead shot-up beautiful wolf on a mans car right in the heart of downtown ...it so depressed me I cancelled my visit. ..how can Wyoming profit so much from the park and treat the public so badly

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I spent the summer of 2012 traveling with the Vans Warped Tour. For 2 months I worked 12hrs a day in the blazing, dry heat, sweating and swearing across the entire continental U.S. The tour ended in Portland, and some friends and I drove to Montana to visit family. We…

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    Greetings from Great Falls Park

    I've been here many times, on both sides of the river, and always marvel at how beautiful and powerful and unique are the falls and the Potomac -- all this just a few miles from my home in Northern Va.

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I love Yosemite National Park. My husband and I spent 5 days there in 2009. On the last day as we drove out of the park, I kept looking behind me because I could not take my eyes off of one of the most beautiful and spiritual places I've ever…

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