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  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    In 1981 I camped at Sequoia for 6 days and took ranger lead walks. These decades later I think of how majestic it was, how the giant trees were beyond belief, how clean the air was, and how much care the rangers took to protect that precious place. I am…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    This was the second NP we visited on our 9200 mile Grand Tour of the US - the first being Grand Teton. Our family of 5 (3 young daughters) traveling in a 22 ft. Jamboree - made a habit of going to all the ranger talks. However the talk we…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    For my family, parks are not for people; they are home to animals and diverse plant life and humans are merely visitors who must take care to tread lightly and leave the park we’re visiting at least as tidy and clean as we found it.

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I am blessed to live only 45 minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park. This means I can experience the park many times and in different seasons. Each time is a new experience, even if the trail is the same. The weather can change from a gentle breeze to a…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    Zion National Park will always have a special place in my heart. The first time visiting, I hiked up to Observation Point in the morning and did a few miles in The Narrows in the afternoon. It was a glorious and exhausting introduction to the park. Years later, I brought…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    I did the Narrows top-down in May 2021. I woke up in the middle of the night because I was warm, but I wasn't sweating...which could only mean one thing. Heatstroke was on the way. And when I rummaged in my pack for my Camebak, I discovered that it had…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    My family were campers. We would camp during the summers on our vacations from Texas to California in the 1960's. We would stop at Zion NP and camp at the South Campground on the Virgin River. As an adult I continued to vacation at Zion many times. When I retired…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I went to yellow stone national park and we saw a big brown bear that wasn't but like 100 yards away so I had a lot of fun!

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    We were camping in Yellowstone on June 13, 2001 when we got 12 to 14 inches of snow that night. The only place to go was to the restaurant n large meeting room where we stayed with hundreds of other people all day.You got a number when to eat n…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    Living in Montana, YNP is in our backyard and have visited often over the last 50 years in all seasons. Of course when friends and families come to visit, off we go acting as docents, showing them the sights. On one occasion as we were driving through Hayden Valley, we…

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