Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park
So many visits to the park since I live in nearby Seattle. Recently we visited and the nisqually river was above flood stage and the kind and competent rangers guided us safely out of the park. Many thanks.
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Greetings from Yellowstone National Park
When I was visiting Yellowstone; at one of the scenic places we stopped at, we saw a large buffalo sleeping near a small body of water maybe 30’ from the edge of the parking lot. Everyone in the parking lot was horrified at the sight of a man sitting cross…
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Greetings from Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
I took my father in law for a tour of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville battlefields July 2024. We also went by the Stonewall Jackson Death site (inside was under repair and closed). I had reached out to the HQ on the Jackson house and Mary O'Neill was kind enough to reply…
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Greetings from Yellowstone National Park
My husband and I wanted to walk down into the Grand Canyon, so we chose November, a suggested time for the temperature. We made reservations at Ghost Ranch, not early enough to stay in a cabin, but we stayed in gender separate bunk houses. We stayed over night two nights.…
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
I am 93, and my favorite stories are about going to Yosemite every summer with my parents, and also taking my children there. All the personnel working there were wonderful and helpful. That park made me aware of how important being in any State or Federal park is a valuable…
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Greetings from Blue Ridge Parkway
Many years ago, my first trip to a park was camping in the the Great Smoky Mountains and then driving the Blue Ridge Parkway with my son who was seven years old at the time. On the Parkway, we pulled in a campground to register for a camping spot for…
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Greetings from Gettysburg National Military Park
I hired, not once but twice over the years, a guide at Gettysburg, Edwin Clausey, who I am sure is retired now, to take me and children around the park and do an educational presentation so the kids would understand. He was so knowledgeable, so interesting and so courteous. We…
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Greetings from Montezuma Castle National Monument
We sat with a volunteer ranger at the base of the castle and he told us so much information we otherwise wouldn’t have known about the NP! It was really interesting and made us appreciate the history more deeply. Later we kept walking and I realized I didn’t have my…
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Greetings from Acadia National Park
My family first visited Acadia NP in 2015 at the recommendation of friends. We couldn’t imagine that a park on the coast of Maine could be that great. Were we surprised! The beautiful carriage roads, hiking trails, Sand Beach, Thunder Hole, Jordan Pond House and of course Cadillac Mountain at…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
Three decades ago, in the dead of winter, my wife and I took a break from cross-country skiing by signing up for a snowshoe outing to learn winter ecology from a park ranger. After teaching the class how to shuffle-turn without falling, he pronounced us experts and off we went.…
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