There are more stories to be found in the National Park System than one could write in a lifetime. Or several lifetimes.
Sometimes those stories can be hard to spot. How many were aware of the factoid from Great Smoky Mountains National Park that Jennifer Bain dug up, that if you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders against its roughly 1,900 black bears, the salamanders would weigh more?
Talk about national park trivia.
We’re going to talk about stories in the parks today with Kim O’Connell and Rita Beamish, two long-tenured writers for the Traveler. The ones they’re currently working on are pretty interesting.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:47 No’Easter - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:06 Washington National Park Foundation
1:30 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:50 Smokies Life
2:12 Friends of Acadia
2:36 NPT Promo
2:58 Episode 318 - Covering the Parks
50:25 Vista Verde - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus & Canyons
51:05 Episode Closing
51:25 Orange Tree Productions
51:57 Splitbeard Productions
52:08 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - March 23rd, 2025 7:00am







