#great falls national park

[pointandshooter]

old carriage road

photo: David Castenson

[pamietniko]

Sol Duc River

Olympic National Park, Washington

[flyingiseasy-landingnotsomuch]

The road to Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Oct 2023

[thomaswaynewolf]

[shutterandsentence]

Celebrate the simple beauty of today!

Photo: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

[admiralgiggles]

Baby, it’s cold outside.

[deadpresidents]

President Rutherford B. Hayes (far right), First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes, and their party visiting Yosemite -- which was still ten years away from becoming a National Park -- on October 21, 1880. President Hayes was not only the first President in American history to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office, but he was the first incumbent President to travel west of Salt Lake City and only the second to travel west of the Rocky Mountains (his immediate predecessor, Ulysses S. Grant had visited Utah in 1875).

The President's "Great Western Tour", which lasted from August 26-November 6, 1880 took the Presidential party through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Utah Territory, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, Colorado, and Kansas en route to the Hayes family home, "Spiegel Grove" in Fremont, Ohio in time for Hayes to cast his ballot for fellow Ohioan James Garfield to be his successor.

[kelseyreagh]

some nice pictures from different parks ft. cookie

[newjerseyisthebest]

Waterfall at Great Falls National Park in Paterson, New Jersey.

[pointandshooter]

swamp trail

photo: David Castenson

[pamietniko]

An autumn evening.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

Love in the Great Smoky Mountains: A National Park Romance - photo preview

(photos 1-6, 8, 10-11, 13-27 are from parade.com, phots 7 & 29 are from justjarred.com)

[valhikes]

Great Basin National Park, Nevada

I headed out on a short backpacking trip. The route followed old mining road and passed through the ruins of a briefly thriving community. From there, I stopped by the lake, climbed to the top of the nearby peak, then dropped to a second lake for the night.

[shutterandsentence]

What is it about this time of year that makes me want to write poetry?

Photo: Bryson City, North Carolina

[faggotfungus]

Beech Forest, Great Otway National Park, Beauchamp Falls ⁰

[admiralgiggles]

“Strangers waitin'

Up and down the boulevard

Their shadows searchin' in the night

Streetlights, people

Livin' just to find emotion

Hidin', somewhere in the night”