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  • Greetings from Ellis Island National Monument

    The first time I visited Ellis Island it made me proud to be an American and appreciated all my parents did as immigrants to bring us to the US for a better life. I have enjoyed going there to visit ever since I was a child and appreciate everyone that…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My family took our first trip to a National Park when my youngest son graduated from high school. Best experience ever! We had such an amazing experience, it has prompted us to have the goal to visit all of the national parks in our lifetime. We have been to 17…

  • Greetings from Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

    Recently returned from a summer vacation where we were lucky enough to visit Glacier Bay. Rangers provided commentary as we viewed the Johns Hopkins Glacier and others. Thank you for all you do.

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    Thank you so much to the rangers/volunteers/folks that work tirelessly to protect and maintain this most amazing park! My son and i took a road trip through here and it was awe inspiring to see this amazing place. Seeing the park sky at night, with no city lights around for…

  • Greetings from Pinnacles National Park

    I used to think of nature as untouched land, as though the absence of human footsteps was what made it pure. But walking through the Moses Spring Trail in Pinnacles National Park made me question that thought. As I climbed up carved stone steps lined with metal railings, squeezed between…

  • Greetings from Congaree National Park

    As a record-breaking ice storm headed toward Virginia in early 2026, I packed up and hurried to Florence, South Carolina. The next morning I meandered west along state and county roads to Congaree National Park. I’d seen it on the map and looked it up. Once I learned it was…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Where Our Story Began The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is where our story began. Our mothers knew each other in Tucson, but somehow Bruce and I had never met. Years later, we both ended up working at the North Rim — Bruce on the fire crew and me…

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and my parents and I visited Big Bend National Park every New Year’s Eve from 2011 to 2020. We loved hiking in the Chisos Basin, watching the stars at night, taking the boat into Boquillas, Mexico, looking at the dinosaur fossils, and all of the…

  • Greetings from Gateway National Recreation Area

    I have been kayaking in Jamaica bay with the National Park Rangers for a few years. It is amazing to see the amount of wildlife in this urban park.

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    Finding Our Way Back—Through America’s National Parks. We first met in 1986, while attending a U.S. Navy A School on Treasure Island in San Francisco, California. We didn’t officially date, but we spent hours talking—about everything and nothing—and shared a simple Sunday afternoon walk along the boardwalk, splitting a blueberry…

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