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  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    More than half a century ago -- during the last year of Mission '66! -- my parents loaded us kids into the station wagon and drove cross country. We visited about a dozen national parks and monuments, from Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon to Shiloh Battlefield. The one I…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    I have fond memories of going to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and marveling at the mountains that seemed so tall. Living in Georgia, it was the closest and easiest National Park for my parents to drive to. I remember how beautiful the trees were and how quiet it…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I have been going there for 60 years for recreation. I'm over 80 and retired. But I can no longer afford to go there. Rooms that were $100/day 2 years ago are now $250. NPS has to have more control over concessionaires so that people of all incomes can enjoy…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I am a disabled veteran, I served this country and now I am on a quest to visit all the National Park that I can. I live near Yosemite and love the day trips I take to visit the Park. The fires in California are a big worry, the way…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    NPCA has been a fantastic opportunity to blend my experience and perspective from years in conservation and advocacy, applied anthropology, working as a park ranger, and feeling as passionate about cultural history as I am about wild places. And to do this work in my ancestral homeland of New Mexico…

  • Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park

    The best vacations we've ever had have involved a national park. Twice we were able to share it with my son and his family. Hiking in such gorgeous country is so memorable.

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    When my Husband retired, the first thing on his Bucket List was to go to the Grand Canyon. When we arrived, we were both overtaken with the beauty of the Canyon. We WILL go back.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Jim Whilt was a government hunter, guide and lion trapper in Glacier Nat'l. Park in 1923 when my father, Mike Sweet, worked with him trapping mountain lions and shipping them all over the country for zoos and circusses. In a newspaper clipping, Whilt was headlined as "Poet of Rockies is…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    To speak of it can never tell the story on how breath taking it is.

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I was nine years old when we started making huge loops around the country in a popup camper. Yellowstone was the first National Park we ever visited. Every year after that, there was at least one more park, usually more, added to the list. I grew to love the National…

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