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  • Greetings from Haleakalā National Park

    My wife and I recently returned from a backpacking trip in the spectacular and somewhat otherworldly environment of Haleakala National Park. This photo captures the start of our first day backpacking, heading to the far side and our campsite at Paliku. We were seeking to truly unplug on this trip,…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    In 1990 I had my first experience of driving from Lander, WY over the mountains towards Jackson and seeing the Teton mountains. I was in complete awe at the beauty and majesty of the mountains and of the wildlife in the park. After that first trip, I have introduced many…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    Tall grass and a fantastic view along Skyline Drive.

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Over the last few years, I've tried to visit as many national parks as possible to write about, highlight and photograph all the neat features of each park. I love going to all the national parks because each one is so unique. Luckily, living out west, there are many parks…

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    My cousins from France visited in June. They had two things on their list: Las Vegas and Sequoia National Park. I asked them "Why Sequoia?", and they responded, they do not have such forests in France. They were excited to meet the largest living being on Earth. They plan to…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    In the spring of 2012, I had a terrible cough that was so strong it would wake me up from a sound sleep. Anything that made me draw a large breath (singing, laughing, even pushing a heavy door open) would set it off. Doctors had me on all sorts of…

  • Greetings from Rock Creek Park

    “My” park is less famous than Yellowstone or Yosemite, but it’s every bit as much a national park, just smaller. I grew up in Washington DC. My teenage years, in the early 1960s, were very difficult, both at home and at school. I developed an interest in hiking at the…

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    Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I was 40 years old when I discovered our National Parks. I was between jobs and went to a hiking camp in southwest Utah and fell in love with Zion National Park. I came home and bought my husband hiking boots and we've been hiking our way through the God's…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    It is hard for me to pick one story, but one of my first trips to a national park included a hike to this spot in Glacier National Park in Montana. I was taken by what I saw, and sat for quite some time in awe. The picture doesn't even…

  • Greetings from Cape Cod National Seashore

    Located in the Cape Cod National Seashore, near Provincetown, MA, the Dune Shacks were first built by fishermen over 150 years ago. After 1961 the shacks were acquired by the National Park Service after the national park was formed. Today, they are used by various individuals and groups through leases,…

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