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  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Each and every year of the 5 years we have been married, my husband and I explore a national park, historic site, monument, etc. I absolutely love the outdoors and it is a passion my dearheart is happy to share with one condition-we include a sporting event in our vacation…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My husband and I were married in Yosemite Chapel in September 1994. Our reception was at the beautiful Ahwahannee Hotel. Our wedding guests traveled from all over the USA and we all had an amazing four days exploring the park. People still talk about it all these years later!

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Pam and I met at Grand Canyon--I was a seasonal ranger and she was a Fred Harvey girl. We got engaged at Yaki Point and spent our honeymoon at the Albright Center the next summer.

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My story is about the glorious wedding held in Grand Canyon National Park by my grandson and his lovely bride a few years ago. We all gathered at the reserved section, overlooking the canyon about the time the sun was setting. Picture perfect, as it was described by the photographer…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    This summer my husband and I visited 18 states. We were road-warriors with his family and we could not have had a better time - seeing old civil war battlefields in Georgia and Tennessee, walking around the grounds of the Oklahoma City bombings memorial downtown, gazing up the canyons of…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    On my way through Jackson Hole to Yellowstone I witnessed a dead shot-up beautiful wolf on a mans car right in the heart of downtown ...it so depressed me I cancelled my visit. ..how can Wyoming profit so much from the park and treat the public so badly

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