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  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    My husband and I took an extensive trip with our small travel trailer in June. We visited Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument and Great Sand Dunes National Monument. We completed the trip by getting one of the last camping spots in Yellowstone. As…

  • Greetings from Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

    We thought that this had been one of the best vacations we could have had over the past several years. Please continue to support this type of recreation for all people. Thank you very much for this opportunity.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    We had the most amazing trip to Glacier National Park this year! My husband and I have a goal of reaching all of our country's national parks (this was only #2 on the journey), and what an incredible park it is! I was so impressed by everything, including the knowledge…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Too many people I felt like i was in NYC.

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    My dear father took me and my four little children to see Grand Canyon National Park, when we visited during the winter of 1958. It was amazing and beautiful to me! In the late 1990s I visited again with my sister and family. The wonder of it is still with…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    Those who have experienced a national park know that they have been involved with something more than just a pleasant visit. Those of us who have taken part in the experience of a park stay know that at its best, it involves something deeply spiritual and transcendental that we carry…

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    Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    During the summers of 1950 and 1951, when I was in graduate school at Marquette University in Milwaukee, I had a seasonal job with the Department of Tours of the Union Pacific and Chicago Northwestern Railroads as a tour escort. I took tour groups, by rail, from Chicago to both…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My wife and I traveled to Yosemite in August of 2013, prior to the Rim wild fire that has destroyed so many acres. My daughter and her boyfriend, who live in San Francisco also accompanied us on our visit. They stayed at Curry Village (framed tents) while we stayed at…

  • Greetings from Stones River National Battlefield

    This past summer I had the opportunity to visit two of my favorite National Parks. The first was Stones River National Park In Tennessee. This park is the scene of a major battle from the Civil War outside of Nashville Tennessee. As a youth I spent many days walking or…

  • Greetings from Gettysburg National Military Park

    I was there in 2008 my favorite was little round top where the 20th Maine did the bayonet charge down the hill also I felt the presence of the 20th Maine and Joshua Lawrence chamberlain and the 20th maine monument looks very nice

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