Swiftcurrent Lake – Many Glacier, Glacier National Park
Today marks the Centennial of our National Park Service and entry to our National Parks is free from August 24 through August 28 so that we can all enjoy the celebration.
We’re inviting you to our 100th birthday party!
Denali National Park – Polychrome Pass
There are parks all over the country and this map helps you Find Your Park. The National Park Service uses over 20 different titles for the park units it manages, including national park and national monument.
Road through Capitol Reef National Park
Utah alone has 13 units in the National Parks Service including Parks, Monuments, Recreation Areas, Historic Sites and Historic Trails. Hopefully, with the majority of Utahns supporting it, there will be another called Bear Ears National Monument.
Bryce Canyon National Park panoramic view
These public lands are our lands and should remain that way in perpetuity. For our children’s children and for the world to see.
I love our National Parks.
Happy Birthday National Park Service!
Life is good.
Mia
P.S., check out today’s Google Doodle in honor of the Centennial.
I hope that National Parks celebrate their Bi-Centennary. And more.
Absolutely beautiful images.Perfect representations of the grandeur of the National Parks. May they always be there for the generations to come.
As Ken Burns said, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”.
Ken Burns is a great film maker but it was writer and historian Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
Beautiful images. As Terry Tempest Williams writes in her new book (The Hour of Land) “After spending a lifetime immersed in our national parks, I believe we are slowly learning what it means to offer our reverence and respect to the closest thing we have to sacred lands.”
Your state has some of the most beautiful parks in the nation…I love them all and hope they are all protected from ignorant and the greedy forever….
Happy birthday to a wonderful decision to protect the Family Jewels. I hope everyone takes the time to experience some of them, or even just one of them, in their lifetime. The pride I feel for our country boils to the surface every time I experience one and reaffirms how GREAT this country is.
Beautiful photos Mia.
Breathtaking scenery!
Thank you so much Mia. Our national parks are incredible places, filled with sheer majestic beauty from sea to shining sea. I encourage everybody to explore OUR national parks, both near and far, and experience their outrageous wonderfulness. At this time in our history, our public lands are under attack from those who would destroy them for profit and we must all guard against that EVER happening. Teddy Roosevelt had it right! We NEED wild places.
A big beautiful day in our nation’s history! Time to celebrate and then get back to work and do more to protect our lands and waters.
Yes! Thank you, Mia!