Archive for the ‘Acadia National Park’ Category

Great Excuses To Visit The National Park System This Fall

Editor’s note: Throughout the fall there are numerous reasons to visit national parks. Here’s a look at some of those excuses…if you really need one! For more details on a specific event, check the individual park’s website.

No one really needs an excuse to visit a national park in the fall, one of the most glorious seasons across the National Park System.

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No one really needs an excuse to visit a national park in the Fall, one of the most glorious seasons across the National Park System. Still, the Traveler offers up the following if you feel you need one!

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Fall Spectacular: What’s That Sound? Where To Listen To — And Look For — Wildlife in the National Parks

Editor’s note: Fall is arguably the best time to see, and hear, wildlife in the national parks. From elk bugling in the Rockies — and even the Appalachians — to bird migrations, your options are many for pairing wildlife and a fall park visit, as Contributing writer Danny Bernstein explains.

In the fall, animals and birds prepare for winter.

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In the fall, animals and birds prepare for winter. Bears eat constantly to fatten up before they slow down. Many birds are already on their migration path. Elk and other ungulates are preparing for the mating ritual, the rut. Take a look — or stop and listen — in many national parks this Fall and you'll catch a glimpse of this autumnal spectacular.

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Reader Participation Day: Acadia National Park, or Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

Glance at a map of the Eastern Seaboard and a number of intriguing national parks jump out: Acadia National Park, Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Everglades National Park.

But which one to visit?

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Glance at a map of the Eastern Seaboard and a number of intriguing national parks jump out: Acadia National Park, Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Everglades National Park. But which one to visit? If you had to choose between Acadia and Great Smoky, which of the two would be at the top of your list?

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Pocket Guides Help Explain The Nature You See in National Parks

A series of inexpensive folding pocket guides can help you easily identify some of the nature you see in national parks.

Published by Waterford Press, these Pocket Naturalist Guides (MSRP $5.95) are slim enough to slip into your back pocket or daypack yet unfold to display six two-sides pages (12 panels, overall) crammed with colorful illustrations and brief descript

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A series of inexpensive folding pocket guides can help you easily identify some of the nature you see in national parks.

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Mystery Plant 10 Revealed: It’s False Hellebore

We gave you these clues and challenged you to identify Mystery Plant 10:

• You do it with a hand auger, and I don’t mean drill.

• You don’t expect a man of that caliber to be so dull.

• That’s a lie!

• Heaven for the climate, hell for society.

You were also given a bonus clue (no extra charge):

• Pushing up daisies is not a doctor-approved form of exercise.

Here is how to pu

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Don't mess with this one, folks, and don't let your livestock mess with it either.

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Trolley Tours Come To Crater Lake National Park

Glacier National Park has its Red Jammers, Yellowstone National Park has its National Park Buses, and now Crater Lake National Park has its trolleys.

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Glacier National Park has its Red Jammers, Yellowstone National Park has its National Park Buses, and now Crater Lake National Park has its trolleys.

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Mr. President, Some Suggestions for Your Long Weekend At Acadia National Park

Three days might not qualify for official “vacation” status, but the First Family’s trip this weekend to Acadia National Park should provide enough time for President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their kids to sample some of the highlights of this Down East treasure.

While there are no public events sc

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Three days might not qualify for official "vacation" status, but the First Family's trip this weekend to Acadia National Park should provide enough time for President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their kids to sample some of the highlights of this Down East treasure.

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Upscale Cabins Latest Trend in Commercial Campgrounds Bordering National Parks

There’s a new structure showing up this summer in campgrounds bordering national parks, one that offers a higher level of comfort than the typical family camper or pop-up tent.

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There’s a new structure showing up this summer in campgrounds bordering national parks, one that offers a higher level of comfort than the family camper or pop-up tent. More and more campgrounds are adding cabins to their available accommodations, for while more people are heading to the parks, not all want to sleep on the ground in a tent.

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Stars Above, Earth Below, A Guide to Astronomy In the National Parks

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Add Stars Above, Earth Below, a Guide to Astronomy in the National Parks to your library and you'll not only gain a better appreciation of the dark skies over national parks, but you'll also be better informed on the stars twinkling at you.

The darkest skies I’ve enjoyed have been overhead in national parks. Winter nights in Yellowstone National Park so cold and so dry that stars seem almost within reach. At Natural Bridges National Monument, the Milky Way forms a horizon-to-horizon band over the landscape.

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ReserveAmerica Can’t Find a National Park Campground It Likes

Falling asleep to the star show over Canyonlands National Park. Waking in Glacier National Park to the mirror-like surface of Swiftcurrent Lake with its embracing mountains towering overhead. Listening to the laughter of children mixing with the pounding surf at the Blackwoods Campground at Acadia National Park.

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ReserveAmerica, the company that manages camping reservations for the National Park System and other federal agencies, can't seem to find a national park campground it likes. In listing its "Top 100 Family Campgrounds," the company doesn't cite a single national park campground.

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