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  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    It's hard to choose a favorite NP, but there's something particularly special about the GSM. Growing up near a national park was a gift, one I didn't realize I had until later in life. The drastic changes of the seasons mean something new each time you visit. There are days…

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    Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My first national park was the Grand Canyon in 1976. I came to the USA for a three month visit and never left. There are a great many reasons why I stayed but not least among them is the staggering beauty of this land that was shown to me by…

  • Greetings from Saguaro National Park

    I am fortunate to live near the East HQ, park and national forest (Rincon Mountain district) just outside Tucson, AZ. For the past five years the neighbors that care deeply for this glorious preserved area have been fighting a developer (El Cortillo LLC and Bike Ranch LLC), their attorneys and…

  • Greetings from Kings Mountain National Military Park

    The Carolina Orienteering Klubb recently re-mapped the historic park using LIDAR satellite data and painstaking on-the-ground plotting of features. The new map results in Kings Mountain National Military Park being one of the most accurately mapped locations in the NPS. Orienteering helps bring visitors to the park for outdoor recreation…

  • Greetings from Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve

    I have visited 49 national parks so far and all 49 I can tell a special story about. Not being into crowds, Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias is easily my favorite with 10 of the 13 highest peaks in the U.S. located inside this park. Being the largest of the current 60…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    I had to travel to California for work and my husband came along, we only had three days, snow and rain changed our plans and we ended up at Death Valley National Park. The name gives it an unforgiving feeling. It is a long drive through desert, to a new…

  • Greetings from Appalachian National Scenic Trail

    Hiked the AT and liked it!! Onwards to the PCT!

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    We started a tradition of camping at Yosemite with our honeymoon there in 1956, and continued every summer for the next ten years. Those were the days of bathing our babies in a dishpan and washing out their (cloth) diapers. We came from southern California, my husband's parents came from…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Our first trip to Montana with the express purpose of going to Glacier National Park. We traveled with our best friends and it remains one of our most memorable trips. The beauty and majesty is almost too hard to take in!

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    Greetings from Lake Mead National Recreation Area

    MOJAVE GEMS: ST THOMAS COVE I love ghost towns. Not the ones with live music, burger joints, and kitchy souvenir shops. No, I prefer the real ghost towns; quiet, desolate, devoid of human activity but filled with human history. I love wandering around the abandoned buildings, peeking into empty rooms,…

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