Despite a few lingering snow squalls, spring has settled over the National Park System, and summer isn't too far off. Road trips, hikes, and exploring the parks are on your to-do list. To help you out with that, turn to our Essential Park Guide Summer 2016.
In this, our largest (at 58 pages), and our best (we think so), Essential Guide yet, we suggest how to spend three glorious days in Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, experience an overnight in a lockkeeper's house at Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, and trace the efforts of the Ranger of the Lost Art to preserve and protect iconic national park posters made by the Works Progress Administration. We even explore the magical culinary aspects of Dutch oven cooking.
And, with the National Park Service Centennial now just a short handful of months off, we also are launching our Centennnial Series, a collection of thought-provoking essays that touch on our aspirations for the National Park Service, and the National Park System, as the agency moves into its second century.
The lead essay, by Robert B. Keiter, the Wallace Stegner Professor of Law and director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah, traces the Park Service and its unique collection of parks over its first century and questions how it and the National Park System might best grow in the decades to come. As these essays roll out on the Traveler in the weeks and months ahead, we invite you to add your voice to the dialogue on the future of the parks and its managerial agency.
We'll be rolling these stories out on the Traveler through the months ahead, though you can also order a hard copy ($14.50) or digital version ($1.99) now and enjoy it at your leisure.
By Kurt Repanshek in National Park Advocates, LLC
58 pages, published 5/14/2016
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