Joe: This National Park Week, I want to hear about your favorite memory at one of our national parks

[soothsayer]

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President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official

America’s national parks are irreplaceable treasures. They amaze us, inspire us, fill us with pride, and belong to all of us in equal measure. This National Park Week, I want to hear about your favorite memory at one of our national parks. Share by replying to this tweet.




The White House
@WhiteHouse
United States government organization

From Yosemite to Acadia, the United States has an incredible array of national parks. Which one is your favorite and why? Share with us by replying to this tweet! #NationalParkWeek

[Hekate]

1. I want to hear them!

[soothsayer]

6. Ayyy, people are responding on Twitter! So many. Here's one

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Sam I Am
@PHX2YOW
Was lost & searching for a reason to go on. Went to Grand Canyon. Sat on edge thinking how easy it be to step off & end my struggle. Then some Condors landed within feet of me & just hung out. We sat together, me & the Condors, talkin' it out. I'm still here. Thank the Condors.

[kcr]

12. What a beautiful story

Ok, I have to share, although this isn't a park story, it reminded me. I had a stroke last year right at the beginning of the pandemic when everything shut down, so I was all by myself dealing with it and it was extra horrible. But I did manage to luck into a corner room with lots of windows, and I was looking out at the rest of the world feeling isolated and everything was just over for me when a bunch of hawks came up and started flying around in circles like they were putting on a show. No medicine could have made me feel what I felt at that moment. I don't know why it helped so much, but it did. I'm fully recovered now. I still get teary-eyed thinking about it.

[central scrutinizer]

2. First trip to the west coast

Went to Crater Lake NP and hiked up one of the trails leading to a viewpoint. All of a sudden we were surrounded by a vortex of hundreds of butterflies circling us. They were sunning themselves on the open trail surface. I guess we interrupted them but it was beautiful.

[HUAJIAO]

3. Smokin' a joint at sunset sitting AT THE EDGE of the Grand Canyon in summer 0f 1970..

right next to my BMW R-50...

(Stock photos)
https://www.bobsbmw.com/motorcycle-inventory/pre-owned-motorcycles/previously-sold/1969-bmw-r50-2-project-bike/

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Yellowstone

where it snowed in June and it was the kind of snow that sticks to EVERYTHING and the trees and all looked like the most beautiful postcard pic. And later that day 2 baby bears way up in a tree and mom below on the ground and the ranger letting us all know to be careful because mom could charge if she felt like it. And eating our sandwiches while watching 2 wolves ford a small river. MAGIC out there. Loved it. We have been there 3 times now and maybe there will be a 4th, God willing.

[waddirum]

5. I found three large morel mushrooms

at Yosemite NP on my birthday.

[Redleg]

7. Lucky to have a bunch of national parks and monuments

in my former home state (Utah) when I was but a youth. My father now lives 20 minutes from Zions Canyon National Park, about 90 minutes from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, a few hours from Bryce Canyon National Park and Arches National Park. I have probably seen all the national parks and monuments in the state, excepting Bears Ears, which oddly, I had never heard of when I did live in Utah. I miss all of it and am thinking about retiring in the area.

[Withywindle]

8. SO MANY great responses!

This one made me tear up

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[soothsayer]

9. Ha! We posted the same example

[Withywindle]

10. Ha! we did

Well, it's so amazing it should be posted twice. Thank the condors!

[soothsayer]

11. Exactly!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Simple pleasures - standing in the deluge of Ribbon Falls

Near the bottom of the Grand Canyon, maybe half a mile off the main N-S trail, it's a great place to wash off the dust from the trail.

Favorite: Shenandoah. Many trails, of varying degrees of difficulty, and the trails are not jammed with people during the summer. Yosemite and Yellowstone, with stunning scenery, can be very crowded at the "charismatic" locations.

Ribbon Falls, Grand Canyon

[Trailrider1951]

14. I love my National Parks

Here is one I can see from my house. The picture is the view from my grandchild's high school.

[soothsayer]

15. Wowza

[MineralMan]

16. Learning to Ski at Badger Pass in Yosemite.

But, there are many, many memories I have from our National Parks.