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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Being able to spend time in such magnificent such as Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks has been a great gift for me. I am incredibly frustrated and saddened by our government today. Treating its citizens and guests as expendable in their parlor games. I wish I could go to the…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Glacier National Park is a place that means everything to me. The mountains and beautiful landscape stole my heart 5 years ago and there, it still remains. It has provided me countless memories, my first camping experience as well as my first time hiking, seeing a glacier, seeing wildlife like…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    After a very rough patch in my life I decided I needed a change of pace. I wasn't i peace with myself at all anymore. That's when I went across the United States in a Greyhound bus. And when I came across the Grand Canyon - the same National Park…

  • Greetings from Badlands National Park

    My father/mother took us out west for 2 weeks camping around 1956/57. We visited the Corn Palace, Wall Drugs, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Devils Tower, Jackson Hole, Yosemite, ........It was my only vacation with my father and I still remember even though I was only 3/4!!! My…

  • Greetings from Eisenhower National Historic Site

    I was lucky enough to spend two summers as an intern at The Eisenhower National Historic Site. During that time, I was able to explore Eisenhower's life and times. EISE is such an amazing place! Whether your interest is military history, Cold War era politics, the presidency, the secret service,…

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    Greetings from Isle Royale National Park

    Well, you can't really say "Greetings From..." You have to say "Greetings After Being There," because Isle Royale National Park doesn't dignify internet coverage. And that's the point of being on Isle Royale. I could write about this place being unique because it's 99% wilderness. Or the incongruence of this…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    There is a definite reason why so many visitors from around the world consider Zion National Park in Southwest Utah their true "Zion." This is a picture from Weeping Rock.

  • Greetings from Great Basin National Park

    My wife and I just returned from an 8 day road trip starting in Barstow, California, traveling all across Nevada, and ending up back in Santa Monica, California. We spent 2 1/2 days in Great Basin National Park and took a tour of Lehman Caves. Great Basin is a true…

  • Greetings from Independence National Historical Park

    My wife and I finally made it out to Philadelphia. We had a great time visiting the historic sites! I think we read everything in every building. BUT, we were very disappointed that some historic homes were closed. We would have loved to have seen the home where Thomas Jefferson…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    Our family has been camping in Shenandoah every summer for the last 10+yrs. Although our children are all grown and have moved on with their lives, we still manage to attract one or two each year to join us on our week long tent camping trip. We don't cover as…

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