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  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    My cousin who lives in Colorado had never been to this park. So I flew out from California and took her. We went at the end of October so it's was chilly and there was a bit of snow. It's was beautiful. Now we're going to plan a visit to…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    We have visited many National Parks and tried to expose our children to as many visits as possible, from Shenandoah, the Everglades, Yosemite, Zion, and Bryce Canyon; but the story that they remember the most occurred on a visit to Yosemite, while camping in a tent cabin in the Village.…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    A good book about the great Yellowstone fire of 1988 is The Fires of ’88, by Ross W. Simpson, an award winning network radio correspondent with the Mutual Broadcasting System who is used to logging (no pun intended) huge miles to cover stories all over the world. He was there…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    The longest drive our family ever took was to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in June of 2004. We had driven to Washington, D.C. in 2001 (1,500 miles round trip) and New York City in 2002 (1,650 miles round trip), but this was as long as both of those…

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    Of course big trees are going to be an attention getter, but it's more than that. It's taking the family trip to get there and seeing something so majestic. Walking through the forest among the Sequoia's is a breath-taking experience.

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Avalanche lilies coming up in the snow wells around the evergreen trees at Sunrise in July. What a view.

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    Hiking up Angels Landing and crying when I got to the top.

  • Greetings from Big Bend National Park

    Big Bend National Park covers more than 800,000 acres in West Texas on the boundary with Mexico along the Rio Grande. Here, the concept of geologic time boggles the mind. According to the National Park Service and reinforced by Guides Drew Thate and Melissa Scott, the strata in Big…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    In early September, 1958, my wife, Karen and I, were returning from summer work on the West Coast. We were sleeping in my old Boy Scout era pup tent in Yellowstone Park. At about midnight, Karen woke me: “There must be a bear in the garbage can (just outside our…

  • Greetings from Canyonlands National Park

    My wife Deb and I spent some magical time camping and hiking in the 'wilderness' of Canyonlands many years ago. I love the red rock country. It breaks my heart to see the current political efforts to disgrace this land with truly unneeded oil and mineral development. President Teddy Roosevelt…

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