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  • Greetings from Kings Mountain National Military Park

    The Carolina Orienteering Klubb recently re-mapped the historic park using LIDAR satellite data and painstaking on-the-ground plotting of features. The new map results in Kings Mountain National Military Park being one of the most accurately mapped locations in the NPS. Orienteering helps bring visitors to the park for outdoor recreation…

  • Greetings from Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve

    I have visited 49 national parks so far and all 49 I can tell a special story about. Not being into crowds, Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias is easily my favorite with 10 of the 13 highest peaks in the U.S. located inside this park. Being the largest of the current 60…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    I had to travel to California for work and my husband came along, we only had three days, snow and rain changed our plans and we ended up at Death Valley National Park. The name gives it an unforgiving feeling. It is a long drive through desert, to a new…

  • Greetings from Appalachian National Scenic Trail

    Hiked the AT and liked it!! Onwards to the PCT!

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    We started a tradition of camping at Yosemite with our honeymoon there in 1956, and continued every summer for the next ten years. Those were the days of bathing our babies in a dishpan and washing out their (cloth) diapers. We came from southern California, my husband's parents came from…

  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    Our first trip to Montana with the express purpose of going to Glacier National Park. We traveled with our best friends and it remains one of our most memorable trips. The beauty and majesty is almost too hard to take in!

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    Greetings from Lake Mead National Recreation Area

    MOJAVE GEMS: ST THOMAS COVE I love ghost towns. Not the ones with live music, burger joints, and kitchy souvenir shops. No, I prefer the real ghost towns; quiet, desolate, devoid of human activity but filled with human history. I love wandering around the abandoned buildings, peeking into empty rooms,…

  • Greetings from Death Valley National Park

    My eyes open and I turn slowly in bed only to notice that sometime during the night, I’d pulled up the blanket around me for warmth. The relentless heat is subsiding; that repressive air that makes you feel that you are living in an oven is cooling. Air conditioning units…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    Visiting the Tetons while on a two-month long cross country roadtrip was the solidifying moment in which I knew how precious our country's wild places are. America is covered is such amazing and diverse history, landscape, and wildlife and upon seeing this grandeur, of which I'd never seen the likes…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Over the years I have visited many of our National Parks. Parklands are being threatened today by corporations greedy for the resources these lands possess. That must never happen. I've always realized the sacredness of protected land and even more so after watching a video about Yosemite and other parklands…

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