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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    It was summer 1963 and I was three and a half years old. In a few months President Kennedy would be assassinated, followed in six weeks by the birth of my little brother. But it was our driving trip from our home in Minnesota through Montana and to Glacier National…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    I spent over $4,000 and a year of planning to stay in both the North and South Rims. Because of the government shutdown, I was denied access to both. Your organizations needs to work to stop this "hostage taking" of our national parks system. I am so angry and sad.…

  • Greetings from Bandelier National Monument

    I am the meeting and visitor bureau director for Los Alamos, NM. Bandelier National Monument is a premier attractions that our local tourism industry thrives upon. The Valles Caldera National Preserve is also a major attraction to our area towns. Los Alamos is the Eastern gateway to the Jemez Mountain…

  • Greetings from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

    I spent a full year planning a college course around the Olympic National Park, including a field trip of 4 days of camping and hiking. The shutdown happened just 4 days before we were to leave campus. It was clear we would have no access at all to the park…

  • Greetings from Golden Gate National Recreation Area

    I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and hike with a group nearly every Tuesday, often either in the Golden Gate National Recreation, Muir Woods, or Point Reyes National Seashore. But right now we, along with millions of other Bay Area residents and out-of-town visitors, are locked out of…

  • Greetings from Everglades National Park

    Our plan was to spend each wedding anniversary visiting a different national park! We thought that this would be a great yearly adventure! Our 1st anniversary is in four days...looks like we'll have to start next year! :(

  • Greetings from Badlands National Park

    My youngest daughter and I went to the Badlands on a girls weekend her junior year of high school. We camped, survived a hailstorm, made cocoa, and watched a billion stars come out together. You can't put a price on the memories we made. It's astounding that the Federal government…

  • Greetings from Denali National Park & Preserve

    I have learned lessons of vast enormity as an eager student in the discipline of getting up, getting out, and getting off the interstate. The importance of sojourning with friends in faraway places, feasting upon fruit right from the Earth and adventuring through the Parks while thriving on the cheap…

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