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  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    With daughter Eleanor waiting for sunset from Cliff Tops on Mt. Leconte. This was her first time there. My parents started taking me up Leconte in the early 1960s.

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Hiking with my family to the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Clingmans Dome. Long trek to the top!

  • Greetings from Canyonlands National Park

    My son and I decided to take a train ride out to Utah and see what it was like in Canyonlands National Park in the middle of winter. This is a photo of my son on one of the trails we hiked. The change in temperature was fascinating. We started…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    This was our first trip camping in a National Park after having children. We hiked, played in the river, and the children earned their first Junior Ranger Badges. After this trip, we were addicted and nearly every year, we stay in a National Park.

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    Living in California, we visit Yosemite National Park often. We feel so lucky to have such a wonderful treasure so close to home. While there, we hike, enjoy the river, make new friends and solemnly undertake our Junior Ranger duties.

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    When I was a child, my father and mother often took the family to Camp Curry in the Yosemite Valley. We stayed in cabins and took walks to see Yosemite Falls and Bridle Veil Falls. We also waited on many an evening to see the "fire falls." This was an…

  • Greetings from Blue Ridge Parkway

    This me with my daughter, Rachael. It is the summer between graduation from high school and leaving for college (on the other side of the country). We decided we need to take an Epic Trip together, just the two of us. We thought maybe Maine, but we'd been there with…

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    Greetings from Virgin Islands National Park

    Virgin Islands National Park is already my third National Park, and I just turned two. Parks provide opportunities for brand new life experiences. It's not every day that I get to build sand castles in powdery white sand, see a grizzly taking a bath in a lake at Glacier NP,…

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    Greetings from Bryce Canyon National Park

    Two years ago, my family and my sisters' family embarked on a trip through Bryce, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. It mirrored a trip that our grandfather took my sister and I went on when we were seven and four. We know that we made memories in those magical places that…

  • Greetings from Canyon De Chelly National Monument

    When my son, Aaron, graduated from Montana State University in 2005, I asked him if he'd like an all-expense paid vacation to the Four Corners area as his reward for a job well done. It had been a 'bucket list' item of mine for many years and the time seemed…

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