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  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    Spent time in and around Yellowstone this August. My wife and I saw grizzly, wolves, pronghorn, moose, bison, bighorn sheep, eagle, osprey & trout as well as the natural wonders that make the park unique. So much fun packed into just a few days!

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    I took my sister to Yosemite in May. She had never been there and was stunned by its beauty. It is so lush in the spring with full waterfalls sending refreshing mist across the valley. My sister is a naturalist for small adventure cruises and has a developed eye for…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    My husband and I recently visited Mount Rainier National Park for the first time. We made a two-day backpacking trip to the South Puyallup River campground and hiked up to Emerald Ridge to see our first glacier! This hike was very uphill, but it was worth it when we reached…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    This picture is of the rising sun bouncing off the walls of The Narrows, our favorite moment of visiting Zion in summer 2012. We beat the crowds and walked for 2 miles up the Virgin River solo, just us and the walls. It's moments and places that our National Parks…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    The most surprising element of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was the warm glow that filled the canyon, even in its darkest moments. When my best friend and I arrived at the North Rim it was after 8pm and very dark, yet through the trees I could still…

  • Greetings from Canyonlands National Park

    We timed our arrival for dawn so we could catch that iconic photograph of Mesa Arch that has been seen forty bajillion times on the Internet and on coffee tables across America. We weren’t the only ones with the same idea as there were already about a half dozen photographers…

  • Greetings from Badlands National Park

    The first National Park I ever visited was the Badlands. I was on a road trip, and we were making for the Blackhills at the end of the day. But then, we made a rest stop, and we saw the ripples in the land scape -- we had to go.…

  • Greetings from El Malpais National Monument

    The discovery of El Malpais National Monument was the perfect change of pace from a day of driving down the interstate watching the landscape whiz by. El Maplais is a combination of sandstone bluffs, dating back to the age of dinosaurs, and lava fields located in a valley outside of…

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