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  • Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park

    Amazed with the maze of multicolored sandstone spires that spread before us, we take the Navajo Loop Trail ever downward on orange sand into a narrow slit of bright orange canyon walls looking so weathered, and out we go to the other side of the slit to see among the…

  • Greetings from Natural Bridges National Monument

    My son and I set up camp on a high plateau overlooking the distant sandstone spires of Monument Valley. We look forward to our all-day hike through Natural Bridges, where three sandstone formations rise high across a very narrow canyon of dark pine-laced cliffs bearing small ancestral Pueblo ruins tucked…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    Six months after our wedding, I was drafted into the Army. Shortly thereafter, in June 1967, I was sent to Vietnam. When I returned home one year later, my wife and I decided we needed to get away by ourselves to get "reacquainted." We went to Rocky Mountain National…

  • Greetings from Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve

    Beginning in the early 1970s, I became involved in efforts to set aside a part of the Brooks Range in Alaska as a new national park. I spent years exploring this wonderful wilderness by foot, dog team, floating and by light aircraft. I wanted to be a part of the…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    Deep within the spruce and fir, I make my camp along the North Rim, but before I eat supper, I walk over to the nighttime edge of the Grand Canyon to peer three or four thousand feet down to see a tiny flickering campfire way below that lures me down…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    To celebrate the 100 years, I just got done spending 21 days in Yellowstone on a biking/hiking adventure. Would your magazine be interested in a 3,125 word feature story?

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    In June 2015 my wife and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. After much discussion on where to go for this monumental occasion, we decided to celebrate in Shenandoah National Park. My wife first camped here and climbed Old Rag Mtn. while in college on the east coast. I brought…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Our Nation's National Parks "make you act like a kid again"! They are wondrous places; complex and fragile. When they are gone, they are gone. And for those of us senior citizens, that is not as big of an issue as it will be for our grandchildren and theirs. We…

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