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  • Greetings from Arches National Park

    We visited Arches just as this storm was rolling in. It really created such a dramatic view of the park. This picture is just one example.

  • Greetings from Badlands National Park

    On a recent road trip from our home in NY to our second home in Colorado, we toured through South Dakota, stopping in the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park and here in The Badlands National Park, where we stayed for two days enjoying the most unique landscape I've…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    It has taken me years to finally go to Maine and visit this fabulous, scenic, historic park. Our tour bus guide made this foggy, rainy day in Acadia one to remember despite the weather. The tiny wild blueberries which grow on Cadillac Mountain, the highest spot in the park, bury…

  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    I took this picture on Mother's day 2015. Best day ever, my family knows how much I like to hike and knows how much I love National Parks so they took me to Hawksbill Mt.

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    Greetings from Acadia National Park

    Last week I started an epic 5-day, 400+ mile bicycle journey in Acadia National Park. On Wednesday a group of 130 of like minded bicyclists gathered for the inaugural North East Climate Ride from Bar Harbor to Boston. A subset of us warmed up with the 22 mile park loop,…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    In the visitor center of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve, a 1,106-acre refuge within Grand Teton National Park on the southern end of Phelps Lake, which we hiked to last weekend, Laurance S. Rockefeller speaks for all of us: "How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how…

  • Greetings from Lincoln Memorial National Memorial

    My daughter and I went to see the Lincoln Memorial. I was tired and hot from the walk so I sat down to rest. My daughter said, "No mom, get up and walk." The nice man sitting next to me said to my daughter, "You don't want to have to…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    Ever since I was a little girl in the 1950s and '60s, I would send for park guides in the mail. I would dream over them and how I would go there for real some day. In 1975, at the age of 22, my husband, 6-week-old son and I went…

  • Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park

    My friend Melanie and I were taking a National Parks road trip and of course taking several pictures along the way. At one point I was impatient about how much time she was spending on her phone in general, but she showed me this picture she took of me in…

  • Greetings from Olympic National Park

    My husband and I took my mother and niece to Olympic national park. I traveled all the way from St. Louis to capture this shot. The park was full of wildlife and scenic views. This day was memorable because my 64 year old mother hiked her first mountain hike and…

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