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National Park Service Launches Website to Help You Plan Your Fourth of July Celebration

With the Fourth of July holiday weekend not too far off, the National Park Service has launched a website that will help you plan your holiday celebration somewhere in the National Park System. And you'd expect the Park Service to have some pointers, as it preserves numerous areas that commemorate the birth of the United States and American Independence.

Field Notes From Yosemite: Yosemite's High Country, A Tradition in Educational Excellence

Nestled peacefully in Yosemite’s Tuolumne Meadows, at roughly 8,600 feet above sea-level, sits Parsons Memorial Lodge, a modest fieldstone structure built in 1915 to celebrate the life and good works of Edward Taylor Parsons. It’s surrounded by some of the most recognized topographical icons in the Sierra Nevada, such as Cathedral Peak, Unicorn Crest, Mountains Dana and Gibbs.