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Reader Participation Day: What's On Your National Park Bucket List?

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By Kurt Repanshek - March 30th, 2011

What's on your park bucket list? Standing atop Acadia, canoeing in Voyageurs, or strolling the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone? Top two photos NPS, bottom photo by Kurt Repanshek.

What's on your national park bucket list? Which parks do you want to experience before you reach the end of the line?

For those who live in the West, within a day or two drive of such icons as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, or Grand Teton, you might be longing to visit Acadia National Park in Maine, Everglades in Florida, or Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina.

Conversely, if you live in the East, you might be dreaming of waking up to the sound of Old Faithful erupting, walking through the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic, or standing atop Logan Pass in Glacier.

So tell us, which parks would you like to check off your bucket list?

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Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 10:14am.

Toroweap at Grand Canyon. I've made it as far as Mount Trumbull before road conditions forced me back, but I'd love to spend a day at the far remote corner of the canyon.


Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 11:22am.

In my backyard, in my lifetime, I would like to be the first visitor to the Pinelands National Park (currently Preserve).


Submitted by imtnbke on March 30, 2011 - 12:19pm.

Isle Royale National Park.


Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 4:29pm.

Over the years, I've been to 47 out of 50 U.S. States, much of it tent camping in the U.S. National Parks (by the way, the Canadian National and Provincial Parks are not too 'shaby' either, having been to many of them from B.C. to Newfoundland).

On my 'Buckey List" - I think I would put those U.S. Nat. Parks I've missed -  not many (having been to Denali N.P., Alaska and Bryce Canyon N.P., UT 3 times!). However, I would put the following:

Glacier N.P., MT, Glacier Bay N.P., AK, Katmai, N.P., AK , Kenai Fjords, N.P., Seward, AK.


Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 9:20pm.

Arches, Canyonlands, Denali, Hawaii Volcanoes (was there in 1974, before the eruptions began, so would like to see it again).


Submitted by Sabattis on March 30, 2011 - 10:35pm.

At the top of my bucket list as a whitewater rafting trip through "The Gates" at Aniakchak National Monument...   That just seems like such an unbelievable experience!


Submitted by admin on March 31, 2011 - 8:38am.

North Cascades NP here in America, and Gros Morne NP in Canada.


Submitted by admin on April 1, 2011 - 9:10am.

The plan is to photograph all 58 National Parks. I've shot 30 so far since 2007, (http://www.frankrabold.com/nationalparks) so only 28 more to go...


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