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  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    We took our grandson,then 13 years old, to Yellowstone. He enjoyed the sights that could not be found anywhere else on the earth.

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    My first trip to the rockies, wow I am going back someday. This trail is awesome, located near the road to the sun.

  • Greetings from Olympic National Park

    Visited Olympic National Park last Sept and it was fabulous. Have also visited Yellowstone twice and Glacier National Park several times, great places. This year am planning on Denali National Park. The national parks are indeed America's Greatest Idea and need to be preserved, enjoyed, and protected now and into…

  • Greetings from Blue Ridge Parkway

    I grew up in the beautiful Shenandoah valley of VA. People travel from around the world to see the leaves in the Fall. I remember going for cookouts near the Blue Ridge Parkway. We would always go for a drive on the parkway first. I recall a stop along the…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    When I was a resident of Los Angeles I had the good fortune of visiting Yellowstone and Yosemite over the years. Those visitations inspired me visually because of the grandeur and majesty of the settings. They also reinforced my activism in conservation programs of which I was already a…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My 3rd trip to Yosemite...backpacking in the backcountry. Amazing burnt-out section that reminded me of Lord of the Rings. The national parks offer an experience for every level of explorer and visitor.

  • Greetings from Minute Man National Historical Park

    My wife and I have been visiting National Parks since we started dating. We have been to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Mount Rainier, Shanendoah and Acadia to name just a few. We now have a five year old daughter and a two year old son. We have taken them to a…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    My dying wife had wanted for some time to see Yosemite National Park. It's a little strange that she hadn't. Her son used to work there and it's only a couple of hundred miles from where she lives in the Bay Area. On one of my trips out there (I…

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    Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    From the time my father introduced me to Sequoia when I was twelve, 54 years ago, I have returned over and over again to renew my spirit in this beautiful place as a young adult and then camping out in Lodgepole with my two children every year. Now my adult…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    My husband and I fell in love with the Tetons the summer of 2010. On a whim we flew in early to Jackson and hiked up to Inspiration Point through Cascade Canyon Trail and then hiked back down around Jenny Lake. It was a moment on Cascade Canyon Trail the…

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