I had just graduated highschool in 2012 of last year. My graduation gift, A cross country trip through Nebraska, to Colorado. My father had us stopping to camp throughout the country, Rocky Mountain national park, boulder Colorado, Into Utah where we stopped by the dinosaur museum and monument, to salt lake city, But the best thing I’d ever seen was Yellowstone National Park, I wanted to stay forever and felt like I was home with the mountains, the cold air and snow, the grizzlies and the sound wilderness, going to the falls and old faithful. It made me feel like I had just inherited a right, and gone through a right of passage. Eventually we had to go home, going through Wyoming, Idaho and South Dakota<3 Which all were equally just as beautiful. I felt like I was truly human and apart of something, and ever since then I’ve wanted nothing more than to go back. It’s beyond the definition of true love when you feel longing for the earth like that.
Sincerely,
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National park offers breathtaking views of the spectacular Rocky Mountain range, with 60 peaks over 12,000 feet, small permanent glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, and historic and cultural treasures including ancient trails, game drives, cattle ranches and lodges. This park’s rugged landscapes harbor hundreds of high-elevation plant and animal species — some that are increasingly rare outside the park or are found nowhere else. Some of the park’s human-made structures speak to the boom-and-bust cycles and neverending search for adequate water supplies that characterized the nation’s westward expansion.
State(s): Colorado
Established: 1915
“We may be human, but my favorite quote of all time is 'Be humble for you are made of earth, be noble for you are made of stars'. The earth is where we were built up from flesh and bone, and that makes us truly the same as mountains, grass, and earth. ”
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