National Parks Traveler Episode 83: Put Parashant NM On The Bucket List | What's Gone From The Parks?

By NPT Staff - September 13th, 2020

We’re going to dream a little bit about places in the National Park System we’d like to visit with hopes we can help you discover a new park destination. To launch this audio bucket list, we’re looking towards Arizona and Parashant National Monument, which despite its more than 1 million acres seems to fly below most park visitors’ radar.

Following that, we’re going to continue to ponder the topic of species extinction, and whether national parks can help slow the sixth mass extinction.

Traveler footnote: For a little more information on Parashant National Monument, read Traveler's story on this interesting park.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
:56 Oh Susanna - Grant Geissman - The Sounds of the Grand Canyon
1:24 Put Parashant National Monument on your bucket list; an introduction to the monument by Chief of Interpretation Jeff Axel
10:57 The Horsemen - Randy Petersen - The Spirit of South Dakota
11:18 National Parks Traveler promotion
11:31 Washington’s National Park Fund promotion
12:06 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
12:40 The introduction to Parashant National Monument continues
24:26 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
24:45 North Cascades Institute promotion
25:06 Friends of Acadia promotion
25:36 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
26:09 Essay | What's Gone From The Parks?
32:35 Amaranth - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
33:04 Episode Closing
33:14 Orange Tree Productions promotion
33:50 Splitbeard Productions
34:03 National Parks Traveler footer

Parashant National Monument

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