Visiting the Parks

The Dune Climb at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Invites You to Climb, Run, Jump, Slide, Roll, Whoop, and Holler

Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which celebrates its 38th birthday October 21, has a dune system to marvel at. One of its major attractions, the Dune Climb, is loads of fun for the young and young at heart. Wear comfortable clothes and get ready to climb, run, jump, and roll. Yahoo!!!

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By Bob Janiskee - October 18th, 2008 12:16pm

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Voyageurs National Park Not Overlooking Halloween

Looking for a way to mark Halloween in the National Park System? Consider a visit to Voyageurs National Park this Friday for a holiday-theme naturalist hike.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 20th, 2008 10:57am

Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Begins

As the country careened toward what is beginning to look like a second Great Depression, citizens in North Carolina and Virginia paused on October 9 and 10 to consider the history of one of the great public accomplishments of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal 75 years ago: the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway.

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By amwdew - October 20th, 2008 12:35pm

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A Surprising Option for a Western River Trip

This short float trip on a desert river offers dramatic cliffs, wildlife and bird watching, and side canyons with hot springs. Its location in a heavily-visited Western park may surprise you.

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By Jim Burnett - October 18th, 2008 8:36am

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"Talking" Buoys Deployed Along Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

It'd be impractical for the National Park Service to station interpretive rangers at various points along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. But that hasn't stopped the agency from providing that interpretation to boaters in the Chesapeake Bay.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 16th, 2008 4:41pm

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Visit Savannah’s Fort Pulaski National Monument and See Why Brick Masonry Forts Became Obsolete in April 1862

Savannah’s Fort Pulaski National Monument celebrates its 84th birthday today, October 15. Brick masonry harbor forts like Fort Pulaski were thought to be impregnable until an astonishing thing happened on April 11, 1862. After that day it would never again make sense to build a harbor fort of brick masonry.

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By Bob Janiskee - October 16th, 2008 12:59pm

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Shenandoah National Park To Celebrate Wilderness This Weekend

It was more than three decades ago that Congress designated nearly 80,000 acres of Shenandoah National Park as wilderness. This coming weekend the park is planning a variety of activities to celebrate that wilderness.

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By Kurt Repanshek - October 11th, 2008 5:15pm

Trails I've Hiked: John Muir Trail, Lyell Fork drainage, Yosemite National Park

Woven tufts of gold knit the meadows together, thick pine forests give way to observation towers of granite and sky-scraping peaks, and a river runs through it. That's the setting the John Muir Trail wanders through in the High Sierra of Yosemite National Park.

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By Kurt Repanshek - December 9th, 2008 6:51pm

Park History: Obed Wild and Scenic River

Obed Wild and Scenic River, which preserves one of the best whitewater rivers in the eastern United States, is tucked away in the wilds of Morgan and Cumberland Counties in Tennessee. Having been established on October 12, 1976, the park celebrates its 32nd birthday today.

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By Chance Finegan - June 11th, 2009 1:06pm

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First Ladies National Historic Site Struggles to Attract Visitors

First Ladies National Historic site, which was established on October 11, 2000, has a prime location. Nevertheless, the Canton, Ohio, park attracts scarcely more than 10,000 visitors a year. Why is that, and does it really matter?

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By Bob Janiskee - February 18th, 2009 3:41am

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The easiest way to explore RV-friendly National Park campgrounds.

The Essential RVing Guide to the National Parks

Here’s the definitive guide to National Park System campgrounds where RVers can park their rigs.

Our app is packed with RVing- specific details on more than 250 campgrounds in more than 70 national parks.

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