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  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    While at the park, I hiked the Stoney Man Trail to a rocky point and saw the valley below, and the blue shadows of the mountains across the valley. It was a beautiful sight. Then I found out that the trail was a part of the Appalachian Trail! WOW!

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    We just spent a night at the National Park Inn at Mount Ranier. Such a beautiful place, chock full of history, and staffed by kind and considerate people. Food beyond delicious, fireplace sitting room relaxing, porch beautiful with glorious views. Slept with the window wide open and woke to snow-covered…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    Ten Reasons Why Death Valley is to Die For March 2, 2015 By Valerie Coffey Death Valley is one of America’s most “to die for” National Parks, and it’s one of my favorite places in the world. I’ve visited the park perhaps nine times in four decades. It’s a must-see…

  • Greetings from Gateway National Recreation Area

    When you live in a big city but nothing but building buses subways and little parks Gateway National Recreation Area is there for our enjoyment in for the future of our children and this great country of ours and for the community at-large we should go all in our power…

  • Greetings from Cuyahoga Valley National Park

    This is me by Brandywine Falls at Cuyahoga National Park, last summer. It was a nice hike and I enjoyed the falls. I also enjoyed the scenic railroad and learning about the Ohio and Erie Canal.

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    I could actually have written this story about all the parks in this area, including Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. But Death Valley holds a special place for its stark beauty. I first visited there in July of 2017, and it was as hot as advertised, 125. Still, the desolation…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    My cousin who lives in Colorado had never been to this park. So I flew out from California and took her. We went at the end of October so it's was chilly and there was a bit of snow. It's was beautiful. Now we're going to plan a visit to…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    We have visited many National Parks and tried to expose our children to as many visits as possible, from Shenandoah, the Everglades, Yosemite, Zion, and Bryce Canyon; but the story that they remember the most occurred on a visit to Yosemite, while camping in a tent cabin in the Village.…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    The longest drive our family ever took was to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in June of 2004. We had driven to Washington, D.C. in 2001 (1,500 miles round trip) and New York City in 2002 (1,650 miles round trip), but this was as long as both of those…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    A good book about the great Yellowstone fire of 1988 is The Fires of ’88, by Ross W. Simpson, an award winning network radio correspondent with the Mutual Broadcasting System who is used to logging (no pun intended) huge miles to cover stories all over the world. He was there…

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