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  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My husband and I were taking his cousins from Norway to see Yosemite. When we drove up to the gate to pay our auto fee, we were told that if any of us was over 65 years of age that he or she qualifies for a lifetime pass at $10.…

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    Greetings from Indiana Dunes National Park

    We have the good fortune to be among the Park partners in the restoration of this charming Swedish Farmstead property in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The Indiana Dunes is known for its vast sand dunes and lakeshore, but it is also the home to incredible bogs, forests, wetlands and…

  • Greetings from Arkansas Post National Memorial

    My husband Tim and I visited 13 NPS sites in 12 Southeastern states on our honeymoon earlier this year. We decided to go off the beaten path to visit Arkansas Post National Memorial. Once we realized how many miles we had yet to travel before the park closed for the…

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    Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    In 2007, in my second summer working for Xanterra in Canyon Village, YNP, I met my wife. It was her first excursion outside of Russia, and she was randomly placed in the world's first national park by Work&Travel USA. Originally hoping to be working in Boston, she nearly left in…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    My husband and I discovered Acadia National Park almost 30 years ago on our honeymoon in September 1983. We were not experienced hikers but found ourselves climbing the Precipice Trail. I silently told myself that with any luck we would climb it again when we were a long-time married couple…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    Shenandoah National Park was our first. It was the first park my wife and I visited, but hopefully there will be many more. It was also where we spent our first anniversary. I remember seeing the sign at the entrance and how excited I was (although I will admit the…

  • Greetings from Canyonlands National Park

    For our honeymoon less than 2 years ago my husband and I decided to pack up the Land Cruiser and drive around this amazing country in hopes of reveling in the beauty of the various landscapes we would encounter along the way. We took off from Texas and traveled throughout…

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    Our first date was in Mammoth Caves National Park, and here we are getting engaged in Big Bend National Park.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    My husband, Josh, and I were married this past May. Knowing that we wanted to go somewhere totally new to us for our honeymoon, we ended up deciding on Montana (we're from Georgia). Once we did a little more research, we knew we would HAVE to go to Glacier National…

  • Greetings from Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

    To celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, my husband and I kayaked and camped for 7 days in Glacier Bay AK. We kayaked up the Muir Inlet to Riggs Glacier. The first day we met choppy water, wind, and a contrary current forcing us to take refuge on a rocky beach…

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