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  • Greetings from Gettysburg National Military Park

    I had relatives who fought for Virginia under Pickett at Gettysburg, and one who fought for North Carolina and was captured on East Cemetery Hill. My wife had two who fought for New York, one of whom was killed and is buried in the National Cemetery on East Cemetery Hill.…

  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    It was June 3, 2012. My girlfriend and I were visiting Arches and had the RV camped nearby. On a day trip to see and walk up to the Delicate Arch.... my first time. Alas, when we got to the parking lot we discovered we had only 'two' bottles of…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    LOVE TO BE THERE

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    My aunt and I have been super close ever since I was born. When I was around 10, she moved from Milwaukee to Chicago, and the distance was insanely tough for me. A few years later, she and my uncle moved out to Montana to run a bed and breakfast…

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    I don't have a photo and don't have a story but I have interest of conserving this park, that I'm planning to visit with my family for the first time next year, because Texas is for me, with strong heart, home and family and family is worth to protect. I…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I wrote Yellowstone in order to continue, but I'd like to write a tribute to all National Parks and Monuments. It has been my great pleasure to have spent a year with my spouse traveling through the United States in an RV. We stopped at every National Park and Monument…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    We were able to spend 2 days at Death Valley helping the park rangers clean up areas that they had not been able to get to because of staffing and time. It was an amazing experience and I can't wait to spend more time there.

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I don't have a photo so you will have to use your imagination. Our oldest son was 3 and it was his second camping trip. This was in late September. We had never been to Yosemite so we were very excited. It was dusk when we pulled into the Valley…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    I "selected" Glacier because it is the one I retired from and spent the most time in. But over 27 years I have worked and lived in 5 National Parks: Mount Rainier, Grand Teton, Olympic, Denali and Glacier (and before that, several National Forests in MT, ID, WA, OR, WY…

  • Greetings from North Cascades National Park

    In 1978, I got the opportunity of a lifetime to be a SCA volunteer in NCNP, 2,400 miles from where I grow up in Ohio. That amazing summer was followed up with six more summers in NCNP and two in Mount Rainier National Park as a backcountry ranger. Nine absolutely…

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