Priceless places,
priceless memories.
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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…
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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…
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Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park
At age 19, freshmen in college, my twin and I had few extra dollars to spare on our thirst for travel and nature. That's how we ended up at Mount Rainier working at Paradise Inn for the summer of 2010. We blindly accepted a job that seemed too perfect, and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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Greetings from Petrified Forest National Park
This is my Mother's park story. Here she is at age 90 having just visited Petrified Forest NP. Mother loved all the national parks and believed they were treasures that all US citizens should see. She loved her National Park passport book and enjoyed sharing her stories with anyone who…
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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…
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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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