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  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    After a 6000-mile road trip through more than a dozen national parks and monuments (Mt. Rainier to Saguarro), I commissioned my painter friend, Connie Brown, to map the "spellbound" tour, using photographs I had taken as models for her border vignettes. This is her fabulous masterpiece!

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Just before school began, my family took a trip up to Washington. Our first stop was the visitor center at Paradise where we checked out the films and some interactive exhibits. After orienting ourself with one of the maps, we set out on our hike where we were quickly blown…

  • Greetings from Olympic National Park

    As a lover of ecology and biological diversity, the rainforest is one of my favorite habitats to explore and to study. My world travels have taken me to many tropical rainforests – in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Yet the temperate rainforest closer to my home in the Pacific…

  • Greetings from Theodore Roosevelt National Park

    I lost my fiancé and my mother two weeks apart. Two years later, I drove West for a wedding, to help a friend, and to meet some new friends. I grew up in Illinois. I have always liked the mountains, but the Rockies seemed to swallow me up. I have…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    After leaving the van at the base of the trail gate at the Glacier National Park, I was met with a swarm of mosquitos eagerly waiting for their next meal. I hastily put on my jacket and applied the mosquito repellant I brought with me from the San Francisco Bay…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    I love this park and have been hiking in It for 44 years. The beauty is incredible and the historic site are awesome. The elk herd is so cool to see. It’s just awesome

  • Greetings from Joshua Tree National Park

    My property in Landers, CA, has an exceptional Yucca Tree. The story is not about a Park... Fall 2020 National Parks featured a Yucca Tree ? Joshua Tree on page 3, and, we thought that you'd like to see our tree on our property in Landers, CA. We are told…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    A few years ago, our 8 year old granddaughter said to my husband, 'Grandpa, will you take me to the Grand Canyon'? He couldn't say no. We planned a 20 day cross country trip. We visited Rocky Mountain NP, Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, Glen Canyon NRA, both rims on the…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Summer 2019: it was my first time travelling to a national park, where I explored the park and lived with a group of strangers for 10 days! To observe and record bird species, I went on a challenging hike with my peers. It was uphill the whole way, parts of…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I try to get to Yellowstone from Denver every 5-7 years. My last 2 visits were 2013 & 2018. I'm a geezer geyser gazer. I'll sit from hours waiting for Great Fountain or Grand geysers. I love the earth processes that created such beauty. For me there's no better place…

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