UPDATE: The winner is…Pat Bohn!
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On this day in history, in 1872, Yellowstone National Park became our first national park. With the news that our parks service has been hit with massive layoffs, let’s remember the majesty of our protected lands that we’re trying to maintain for future generations to enjoy.
I’ve been to Yellowstone twice. Once as a small child. The only memory I have of that trip is grizzly standing outside our car window while my mom freaked out. The second was a trip in the eighties. It was after a wildfire and some areas were devastated, but seeing buffalo spread over a large meadow was breathtaking. Is it any wonder I decided to set my next Montana Bounty Hunters series in West Yellowstone and feature the park and the park rangers who protect this magnificent place?
For today’s puzzle, I chose an image of the Grand Prismatic Spring—so iconic. Enjoy the puzzle!
For a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card, tell me whether you’ve ever visited the park or tell me about a trip to another national park you love!
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Never been there. PA has a lot of state parks, but most are lakes or water related. Occaionally. as a kid, we vacationed near a couple of them, mostly for fishing or swimming.
I was fortunate to work on a Discovery project in Omaha (HAPPY SHOUT OUT FOR OMAHA) for 6 weeks. We saw an item in the USAToday for state park opening there. It was called Ashfall. Since we worked 7 days a week there, 4 of us happily left at noon on a Sunday. We stopped a few hours later for a bite to eat and kept going. What we didn’t realize was the map we followed in the article was more of a drawing. By the time we hit the park–which wasn’t even open yet–it was 5:00. All we could do was a quick walkthrough of the gift center. They were still building the Rhino Barn. The road was so full of deep ruts, I swear you could lose VW bugs in them.
A herd of prehistoric rhinos were found in a valley that died on the site after inhaling fine (picture cocoa powder or powder sugar) volcanic dust from an eruption in the western USA. The purpose of the Rhino Barn was to allow year around excavation. All in all, it was a great experience.
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Last summer, hubs and I spent 2 weeks exploring Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks! What an amazing trip!
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I have not had the opportunity to see Yellowstone, however, I did see a bit of the Badlands. Awesome! And the majestic Mount Rushmore. I simply sat in awe of that sight. Amazing!
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I visited Yellowstone a year before the devastating fires. I was breathtaking. When I visited about 5 years later it was not the same park.
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Never been there though on my bucket list of places to go to
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yes
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We have been to a lot of various state parks but mainly on the east coast. Yellowstone is on my bucket list though. I really want to explore various places in the United States that I haven’t been visited yet. There is so much beauty here to experience it feels wrong to continue outside of US when I have bucket list locations stateside at my age I don’t want to have regrets about things I can do still.
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Never been to Yellowstone but I have been to the Grand Canyon and Gettysburg they both are awesome. They both are beautiful in their own way.
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We took our kids there years ago. It is amazing and impossible to describe to anyone who has never been.
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I’ve never been to Yellowstone or Yosemite, or west of the Mississippi.
I have driven through some national forests; Hiawatha and
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4:29.I have not been to Yellowstone. My favourite national park is at Noosa. It’s a coastal park. Just beautiful.
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I haven’t been to Yellowstone, but have been to Grand Canyon (north rim), Zion & Bryce Canyons; Haleakala & Volcanoes in Hawaii; and live very close to Jockey Hollow Nat’l Park where the Continental Army spent the winter of 1779/1780 – a few more around the east coast
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I would love to see Yellowstone, that puzzle is beautiful
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We haven’t been to Yellowstone yet, but have visited Zion and Bryce Canyon. We’ve also visited a couple of the Canadian national parks, including Banff and Jasper. So beautiful!
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I have been to Yellowstone. A couple left the path and was corrected by our guide. Then someone decided it would be wonderful to have a picture of their child on a bison. That did not go well. My husband and I are trying to visit all the parks.
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We haven’t been to Yellowstone yet but it is in the near future. Our favorite National Park so far is the Grand Canyon. We love it so much that we have been several times.
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I was only at a corner of Yellowstone years ago in the winter while snowmobiling with a group. My favorite National Park is here in Oregon–Crater Lake in Southern Oregon.
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Loved gettslyberg and one time met a group of reenacting historians.
We go to Big Bend in the fall
We stopped going to Amistad due to the crime
We also attend Mass at one of the missions in San Antonio