Why the Parks?

Some of you might ask, what inspired me to write a blog on the National Parks?  For years, my family had a great admiration for the National Park Service.  We collected the brochures from every Park unit we visited in our travel quest to reach all fifty States, and would joke that if we could choose where our taxes were spent, it would be split between the military, NASA, and the National Park Service.  My great passion for the Parks though, began only relatively recently, when I became a volunteer for the National Park Service at James A. Garfield National Historic Site.  Becoming intimately involved with the NPS deepened my appreciation not only for the Parks but the part I was able to play in making them accessible and enjoyable for the public.  However, once I purchased a Passport To Your National Parks book and saw just how many, and the wide variety of, sites administered by the Parks Service there truly were, I became excited at the prospect of crisscrossing the country and finally seeing all of these sites for myself.  As I have begun to travel once again, I realized that the places I go and things I experience are best shared with others.  So I have decided to use my love of traveling, and great admiration and love for the Parks Service as a way to provide to others a basic guide to our wonderful parks.  I hope that with each new blog post, you discover something new you may wish to visit, and that on your next trip, be it for business or pleasure, that you carve out just a little time to visit and appreciate a National Park Service unit that might be on your way.


-Andrew C.