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priceless memories.
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Greetings from Sequoia National Park
My cousins from France visited in June. They had two things on their list: Las Vegas and Sequoia National Park. I asked them "Why Sequoia?", and they responded, they do not have such forests in France. They were excited to meet the largest living being on Earth. They plan to…
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Greetings from Yosemite National Park
In the spring of 2012, I had a terrible cough that was so strong it would wake me up from a sound sleep. Anything that made me draw a large breath (singing, laughing, even pushing a heavy door open) would set it off. Doctors had me on all sorts of…
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Greetings from Rock Creek Park
“My” park is less famous than Yellowstone or Yosemite, but it’s every bit as much a national park, just smaller. I grew up in Washington DC. My teenage years, in the early 1960s, were very difficult, both at home and at school. I developed an interest in hiking at the…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I was 40 years old when I discovered our National Parks. I was between jobs and went to a hiking camp in southwest Utah and fell in love with Zion National Park. I came home and bought my husband hiking boots and we've been hiking our way through the God's…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
It is hard for me to pick one story, but one of my first trips to a national park included a hike to this spot in Glacier National Park in Montana. I was taken by what I saw, and sat for quite some time in awe. The picture doesn't even…
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Greetings from Cape Cod National Seashore
Located in the Cape Cod National Seashore, near Provincetown, MA, the Dune Shacks were first built by fishermen over 150 years ago. After 1961 the shacks were acquired by the National Park Service after the national park was formed. Today, they are used by various individuals and groups through leases,…
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Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park
Our journey to summit Mount Rainier was worth the effort, despite the mountain turning us back at 12,700' due to lightning and whiteout conditions. The adventure included witnessing the northern lights, viewing amazingly blue glacier crevasses and being in one of the most beautiful places on earth. And we will…
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Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park
Standing on the edge staring at the abyss that is the Grand Canyon, it is difficult to imagine that this spectacularly enormous wonder is even hikeable. Even when you've hiked rim to rim, like I have, you still stare over the edge thinking that the rocky features allow no one…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
This summer I took my family on a road trip! We visited Sequoia NP, Yosemite NP, Grand Teton NP, Yellowstone NP, Glacier NP, Battle of Little Bighorn NP, and Mount Rushmore! We had SO much fun discovering the little things that make each park special. My personal favorite is the…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I came to GNP my sophomore summer of college. A friend and I drove up from school in Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama, and got jobs with the concessionaire at East Glacier Lodge. We made many friends and became especially close with a Blackfoot Indian family that took to us like…
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