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  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    My visit to the park was great. Very glad this park is in Colorado.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks are the most recent. But my childhood had Credit Island State Park (Iowa) and The Cascades in the Spark Park in Michigan. Smaller parks provided playgrounds in the summer when camp was not affordable. Now, in New Jersey, we are campaigning to keep what we…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    On a family tour of several National Parks several decades ago, we unpacked a picnic and set up near a sparkling stream to eat. I will never forget that day. National Parks are our last great refuge! Must support! I now look forward to revisiting many of the parks and…

  • 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 Grand Teton National Park

    I have been visiting Grand Teton Park for the past 50 plus years. I worked at Jackson Lake Lodge and Jenny Lake Lodge during the summer of 1977. My wife, Tamara, and I return every April as we have a timeshare condo in Jackson and much family in Eastern Idaho.…

  • 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…

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