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  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I have had many park trips and enjoyed them all by my favorite parks trip of all was in May - June of 2001. It was just my Dad and I and lasted 11 days. We flew into Denver and visited Badlands, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial. My Dad…

  • Greetings from Pinnacles National Park

    Coming back from San Francisco on Friday November 4, 2016, we decided to take the small highway 25 to Hollister and then to Pinnacles National Park. When we arrived, our first impression was that it was a small park with just common mountains view and nothing was so spectacular! We…

  • Greetings from Olympic National Park

    Summer of 2016, Olympic High Divide: In one of the few places left in the world undisturbed by humans, I made a starling realization of how few of my friends have really gone out and explored what nature truly is (away from the hottest tourist destinations). I wanted to bring…

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    Greetings from Zion National Park

    Zion is my favorite national park for many reasons, so I try to pay it forward when I go. I had just paid for 2 passes so the ranger could let someone deserving in for free, who couldn't afford it or seemed to need it. He was slightly dumbfounded and…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I was still in college and had been accepted to work at YP for the summer of either 1951 or 1952. I was a girl from Ohio who had never been out west. This was a true turning point in my life. What an incredible experience! I was a waitress…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    Spent the weekend with my son driving the drive. We each have roadsters, great place to drive them!

  • Greetings from Cabrillo National Monument

    This is me 35 years ago, lol!! It was the most wonderful place & the most wonderful job I could have ever imagined.

  • Greetings from Everglades National Park

    We left a cold Massachusetts in February for a reprieve from winter down to South Florida and the Everglades. On our way to Flamingo Point where we would have a tasty lunch including the best ever key-lime pie, my wife and I were utterly amazed by such a different world…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    We drove from Las Vegas up to a pass in late April rising to 4,000 feet, and from there we got our first glimpse of Death Valley, a narrow winding white valley with wrinkled, elephant-skinned mounds rising here and there--"hills like white elephants" as Hemingway wrote about Spain. On the…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    It didn't take long to realize the freedom of the wilderness during my week-long stay at Big Creek. By the second day, a group of friends and I spontaneously decided to go fly-fishing in the river. We waded across fast flowing, freezing water to get to the small island, where…

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