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  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    This summer my husband and I visited 18 states. We were road-warriors with his family and we could not have had a better time - seeing old civil war battlefields in Georgia and Tennessee, walking around the grounds of the Oklahoma City bombings memorial downtown, gazing up the canyons of…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    On my way through Jackson Hole to Yellowstone I witnessed a dead shot-up beautiful wolf on a mans car right in the heart of downtown ...it so depressed me I cancelled my visit. ..how can Wyoming profit so much from the park and treat the public so badly

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I spent the summer of 2012 traveling with the Vans Warped Tour. For 2 months I worked 12hrs a day in the blazing, dry heat, sweating and swearing across the entire continental U.S. The tour ended in Portland, and some friends and I drove to Montana to visit family. We…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I love Yosemite National Park. My husband and I spent 5 days there in 2009. On the last day as we drove out of the park, I kept looking behind me because I could not take my eyes off of one of the most beautiful and spiritual places I've ever…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    This is a recent photo taken at Acadia National Park. My park story is not about one park, it is about a lifetime of visiting and enjoying our National Parks from the east coast to the west coast. I have visited many of our National Parks and each one has…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    My husband Mark and I wanted to go on a vacation that was close and inexpensive. So we chose Great Smoky National Park for our spring vacation. We had such a wonderful time here. We went on many drives through the park, mainly because our son is disabled so we…

  • Greetings from White Sands National Park

    The Giving Tree Band is a rock n roll band that are comprised of five musicians that are working their way around the National Park System, playing acoustically arranged songs in park settings to promote unity, harmony, and the well-being off all people and the planet. Further they are sharing…

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