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April 22, 2020 by Deborah W. Trotter
National Parks are closed, we’re stuck at home, a perfect excuse for a virtual re-visiting of some spectacular places. Let’s …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: Bandelier National Monument, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Glacier National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, Kenai Fjords National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Yosemite National Park
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April 21, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is fitting that this year National Park Week (April 21 – April 29) kicks off on the 180th anniversary …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Bumpass Hell Trail, CA, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, Dogwood blooms, Fireweed, Glacier National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, Ground squirrel, High Peaks Trail, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Little Baldy, Mist Trail, MT, OR, Pinnacles National Park, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Vernal Fall, WY, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley
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December 23, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
In my final post of 2012 I laid out my goal for this year of hiking at least 60 miles …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks, National Recreation Areas, National Seashores
| Tags: 60 miles, Coast Trail, Coastal Trail, extreme pleasure, goal, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, High Peaks Loop Trail, hike, Kings Canyon National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, National Parks year, nature, Olympic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, outdoors, Pinnacles National Park, Pt. Reyes National Seashore, Sequoia National Park, trails, Upper Yosemite Fall, Yosemite National Park
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May 27, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
There’s nothing like discovering treasure under your nose, right? That’s what I did last weekend when I had a few …
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Category: National Parks, National Recreation Areas
| Tags: 2013 goal, 32nd Avenue, cliffs, Coastal Trail, El Camino del Mar, electric streetcar line, eucalyptus grove, fog, Fort Point, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, hike, Lands End, landslides, lighthouses, Marin Headlands, National Park, on street parking, One Mile Rock, Point Bonita, Point Reyes National Seashore, poppies, remote and desolate, sailboats, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, series of stair steps, shipping traffic, spectacular views, stiff ocean wind, Sutro Baths, three-mile roundtrip, treasure, trolley, Visitor Center, wildflowers, yellow lupine
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April 22, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
Today, April 22, through this Friday, April 26, entry fees will be waived at National Parks throughout the United States. …
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Category: National Parks
| Tags: California, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Lassen Volcanic National Park, National Park Foundation, National Park System, National Parks, National Parks Week, natural treasure, nature, outdoors, Pinnacles National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Bay Area, transportation, United States, Yosemite National Park
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October 31, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
Looking for something to do in San Francisco? Want to step back into the 1800’s? Want to see the Golden …
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Category: National Historic Sites, National Parks, National Recreation Areas
| Tags: California, cannon, cannoneers, children, Civil War, Crissy Field, Fort Point, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joseph Strauss, lighthouse, October Birthdays, Pacific Ocean, Parade Ground, President Richard M. Nixon, San Francisco, soldiers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, urban
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September 4, 2012 by Deborah W. Trotter
I have a confession to make. I love lighthouses. So when there is a lighthouse within the National Park System …
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Category: National Parks, National Recreation Areas
| Tags: Alcatraz Island, blue moon, California, fog, full moon, GGNPC, GGNRA, Gold Rush, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, hike, lighthouse, Point Bonita, San Francisco, trail
Going out is really going in. 