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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    It is hard for me to pick one story, but one of my first trips to a national park included a hike to this spot in Glacier National Park in Montana. I was taken by what I saw, and sat for quite some time in awe. The picture doesn't even…

  • Greetings from Cape Cod National Seashore

    Located in the Cape Cod National Seashore, near Provincetown, MA, the Dune Shacks were first built by fishermen over 150 years ago. After 1961 the shacks were acquired by the National Park Service after the national park was formed. Today, they are used by various individuals and groups through leases,…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Our journey to summit Mount Rainier was worth the effort, despite the mountain turning us back at 12,700' due to lightning and whiteout conditions. The adventure included witnessing the northern lights, viewing amazingly blue glacier crevasses and being in one of the most beautiful places on earth. And we will…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Standing on the edge staring at the abyss that is the Grand Canyon, it is difficult to imagine that this spectacularly enormous wonder is even hikeable. Even when you've hiked rim to rim, like I have, you still stare over the edge thinking that the rocky features allow no one…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    This summer I took my family on a road trip! We visited Sequoia NP, Yosemite NP, Grand Teton NP, Yellowstone NP, Glacier NP, Battle of Little Bighorn NP, and Mount Rushmore! We had SO much fun discovering the little things that make each park special. My personal favorite is the…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I came to GNP my sophomore summer of college. A friend and I drove up from school in Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama, and got jobs with the concessionaire at East Glacier Lodge. We made many friends and became especially close with a Blackfoot Indian family that took to us like…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    My love for the National Parks started as a boy when my parents began taking us on long camping trips to the parks. I can't even say which park was the first one they took us to. Most summers we would visit 3 or 4 and sometimes as many as…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    At the age of 10 I got my hands on a travel guide for Montana, there was a photo of GNP in it....I was hooked, it's been number one on my must see list for over 40 years. Two weeks ago that dream came true when my husband and I…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    It was 1975 and our godson from London was making his first trip to the USA at age 16. We traveled from New York to the West Coast in a l970 Chevrolet station wagon with our family of 5 plus Geoffrey plus my 73 year old mother. After several days…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Mt. Rainer is very near my home and I have always loved visiting. My grandfather summited the mountain twice during my lifetime and often took my brother and I to various locations within the park when we visited. As a child I also had the opportunity to take a road…

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