Explore first-hand, experiences and insights into the amazing National Parks around the United States. Whether you are experienced adventurers or first-time newcombers, we cover everything from the basics to the must-know-spots to family-friendly activities.
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ENP 33: How To Plan A Safe National Park Visit
08/24/2020Yes, you can enjoy the national park system and stay safe during a pandemic. Danielle celebrates the 104th birthday of the NPS with guests Jason Epperson of RV Miles Network and Bradley Kirouac of Hello Ranger. The trio explores pragmatic strategies for family travel in an otherwise unpredictable year.
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ENP 32.3 Big Bend: Travel Through Geological Time
08/11/2020For the third in our Big Bend National Park series, Bryan takes an epic trip through eons with Dr. Thomas Shiller, assistant professor of geology at Texas' Sul Ross University. From uplift to erosion, inland seas to volcanic action, the pair discuss this desert park's changing topography and its once-thriving dinosaur population.
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ENP 32.2 Big Bend: Insider’s Guide To The Best Of
07/21/2020For the second in our Big Bend National Park series, Danielle chats with Courtney Lyons-Garcia, executive director of Big Bend Conservancy, a major advocate for the park. From scenic drives to family-friendly hikes, and fossil experiences Courtney shares practical tips and activities suited to every kind of traveller.
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ENP 32.1 Big Bend: Trip Report
07/13/2020The world may have changed since Danielle, Bryan, and the girls took their early February trip to Big Bend National Park in Texas, but hope for future family adventures springs eternal. With those eventual vacations in mind, Everybody’s National Parks presents the first episode in its Big Bend roundup.
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ENP 31 Rock The Park: Behind the Scenes with Jack Steward
06/22/2020What makes the Emmy Award-winning show Rock The Park must-see tv? Bryan goes behind the scenes with Jack Steward, the show's co-creator and co-host, to find out how Rock The Park captures friendship and adventure for the camera. Then, Jack answers listener questions, including one from a 7-year-old fan.
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ENP 30 The Ultimate Family Road Trip: Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Glacier National Parks with Carter Walker
06/08/2020Epic adventures require meticulous planning - and a trusted guidebook. Moon Guides, a perennial favorite for Everybody’s National Parks, has a catalog of thoroughly researched titles to popular destinations and roads less traveled. Moon Yellowstone to Glacier National Park Road Trip is no exception. Author Carter G. Walker joins Danielle with recommendations for planning a two-week expedition covering three of the country’s best-loved national parks: Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier.
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ENP 29 Old Favorite Route 66 Is New Again with Jessica Dunham
05/22/2020The reality of our new normal could spark renewed interest in an old favorite: the great American road trip. Danielle chats with Moon Route 66 Road Trip author Jessica Dunham about the allure of this iconic highway. With a focus on family fun, Jessica shares her top Route 66 picks including man-made kitschiness, scenic lookouts, and national park access. And, keep those engines revved up because Jessica gives a sneak peek into her forthcoming book The Open Road: 50 Best Road Trips In The USA.
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ENP 28: Look Up! National Parks After Dark with Tyler Nordgren
05/11/2020Think your park day is over once the sun sets? Think again! Tyler Nordgren, PhD, joins Bryan for an illuminating look at the Night Skies program. As a Night Sky ambassador, Dr. Nordgren supports The National Park Service’s efforts to ensure that the celestial landscape remains visible to future generations. And speaking of young park-goers, stick around after the Carl Sagan story and travel tips as Everybody’s National Parks special junior ranger correspondents ask a few hard-hitting astronomical questions of their own.
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ENP 27 Camping and Visiting Colorado’s National Parks with Joshua Berman
04/24/2020Bryan speaks with Moon Travel Guide author Joshua Berman all about camping and visiting the national parks in Colorado. His book Moon Colorado Camping comes out May 12, 2020. The book is well timed since we hope to visit Colorado’s national parks in summer of 2021. Colorado has a campsite and a park for everybody that will suit anyone’s preferences. It can be daunting, which is why this guidebook is a great resource to help plan your trip.
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National Park Week Throwback Thursday: Other Great National Park… (Bonus Episode)
04/23/2020This week, we’re doing something a little different. It’s National Park Week, and we’re teaming up with other National Park podcasters, authors, bloggers, and other content creators to celebrate. The theme for today is “Throwback Thursday,” so a few of us podcasts decided to band together for a “best-of” sort of episode.
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Celebrate Junior Ranger Day at Home and in Your Own Backyard
04/16/2020Saturday, April 18th, 2020 is Junior Ranger Day and the first day of National Park Week. Unfortunately, we are under a state home orders due to COVID-19 so this is a different sort of Junior Ranger Day and National Park Week that we will be celebrating from our homes and virtually. In this bonus episode I talk with my two little pink junior rangers about being a junior ranger. #nationalparkweek #findyourpark #FindYourVirtualPark
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ENP 26: Great Smoky Mountains Revisited with Moon’s Jason Frye
04/13/2020Danielle speaks with author Jason Frye. His updated guidebook, Moon Great Smoky Mountains National Park is available starting April 21, 2020. Jason offers tips for avoiding crowds, how to see the synchronous fireflies and off the beaten path places to explore.
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ENP 25 Camping and Glamping Tips for National Park Trips
03/30/2020Camping is not just in a tent. Danielle talks with Stephanie Puglisi of The RV Atlas podcast and co-author of See You at the Campground: A Guide to Community, Connection, and a Happier Family in the Great Outdoors, about the benefits of staying in a campground setting rather than a hotel during your national park visit. Stephanie shares how there is a camping situation to fit everyone’s needs and comfort: cabin, tent or RV.
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ENP 24 Grandma Joy’s Road Trip: Accessibility in National Parks
03/16/2020In this episode, Danielle has the honor of chatting with Grandma Joy Ryan and her grandson Brad Ryan of Grandma Joy's Road Trip. They started their national park adventure together 5 years ago when she was 85. They have visited 53 national parks - and counting! They share their favorite scenic drives in national parks and top ten list of national parks for accessibility.
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ENP 23 Dayton Duncan: A Passion For The Parks
02/25/2020In this episode, Bryan talks with Dayton Duncan who, along with his creative partner Ken Burns, wrote and produced The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. How has our majestic national park system fared in the decade since PBS first aired that multi-episode documentary? The prolific author offers some insight and takes us on an emotional tour of his favorite park.
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ENP 22.3 Isle Royale: Roaming With The Wolves
02/18/2020One of Isle Royale National Park’s most famous attractions is one that visitors rarely see: wolves. Bryan had the opportunity to speak with Park Ranger Mark Romanski, Division Chief of Natural Resources, about the park’s most elusive resident.
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ENP 22.2 Isle Royale: Trip Planning Options Abound From Daytrips To Sunken Ships
01/31/2020Although notoriously difficult to get to (and, in Bryan’s case, off of), Isle Royale National Park rewards visitors with acres of solitude and Superior vistas. Park Ranger Liz Valencia, the park’s Chief of Interpretation and Cultural Resources, joins Bryan to discuss the island’s mystique and why it’s rugged beauty is more approachable than you think.
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ENP 22.1 Isle Royale: Trip Report
01/20/2020Getting to Isle Royale National Park proves easier than getting off the famously difficult to reach island for Bryan and his buddies. In this episode, he’s joined by brother Dan and Dr. Jeff Greenberger, their former-teacher-turned-honorary-highschool-buddy, for a post-trip recap. Danielle closes the show with a look at riding out an Isle Royale storm from ENP headquarters.
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ENP 21: National Geographic’s Jon Waterman: “Atlas of the National Parks” (Bonus Episode)
01/13/2020The latest resource for Everybody’s National Parks trip-planning isn’t an app; it’s Jonathan Waterman’s breathtaking hardcover National Geographic Atlas of the National Parks. Bryan chats with the award-winning author, filmmaker, and former park ranger about the book, his passion for the parks, as well as the role humans play in their survival. John also shares his list of favorite off-the-beaten-path parks you should visit.
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ENP 20: Revisiting A Year Of National Parks Highlights And Our Top Destinations For 2020
01/06/2020Hello, brand new year! Since hindsight is 20/20, Danielle, Bryan, and the girls take this episode to reminisce on their 2019 park travels and look ahead to what they’ve planned for 2020. They add to their already extensive bucket list and answer a listener’s question about budget planning for a national park visit. And, of course, this wouldn’t be a family episode if it didn’t end with a joke or two.
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ENP 19.8 Yosemite: Scratching The Surface: Geology & Rock Climbing In Yosemite National Park
12/13/2019Bryan chats with Park Geologist and Ranger Greg Stock on the forces that shaped Yosemite’s stunning scenery and the toll our warming climate is having on the park. Then, Danielle dives into mountaineering with Dave Bengston, director of Yosemite Mountaineering School, to learn about the highs and lows of this perennially popular park activity.
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ENP 19.7 Yosemite: Plan Your Trip with TripPossible
11/27/2019Danielle speaks with Nick Mock, owner of TripPossible. They are experts in vacation planning and travel advice and they specialize in planning trips to the national parks. Nick shares his tips and time-saving advice about travelling to a national park like Yosemite. He planned a trip there with his family in May 2019 and wants to help you make the most out of your visit there.
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ENP 19.6 Yosemite: Things To Do By Season with Yosemite Conservancy and Yosemite Hospitality
11/18/2019In this episode of our Yosemite series, Danielle gets tips and recommendations for visiting Yosemite National Park in every season from Adonia Ripple from Yosemite Conservancy, the park’s official nonprofit partner and Lisa Cesaro from Yosemite Hospitality, the park’s concessionaire.
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ENP 19.5 Yosemite: Ranger Shelton Johnson on The Buffalo Soldiers and Diversity in the National Parks
10/31/2019In this episode of our Yosemite series, Bryan had the opportunity to speak with Sergeant Elizy Bowman of the 9th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, aka Buffalo Soldiers, and Shelton Johnson, the interpretive park ranger who has brought Sargeant Bowman’s life story to park visitors and beyond.
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ENP 19.4 Yosemite: Ansel Adams’ Legacy
10/22/2019A visit to Yosemite National Park is incomplete without an evening of entertainment listening to musician and historian Tom Bopp perform in the piano lounge of the Wawona Hotel.
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ENP 19.3 Yosemite: John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt Camping Trip Told Through Song, An Interview with Tom Bopp
10/07/2019A visit to Yosemite National Park is incomplete without an evening of entertainment listening to musician and historian Tom Bopp perform in the piano lounge of the Wawona Hotel.
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ENP 19.2 Yosemite: Curious Characters in Nature - Parasitic Plants, Psychedelic Salamanders, And A Yodeling Ranger
09/23/2019If you tend to go it alone when visiting the parks, Danielle’s conversation with Yosemite National Park Ranger Erik Westerlund will entice you to seek out ranger-led activities and possibly even take a crack at yodelling.
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ENP 19.1 Yosemite: Trip Report
09/10/2019Bryan reflects on how the family got lucky with fantastic spring weather in early May in between snow storms. A challenge when planning your trip to Yosemite is how to avoid crowds, especially in the valley. Because of its immense popularity — there isn’t a typical “shoulder season” to rely on in order to beat the crowds. However, with some planning, you may be able to escape the bulk of the “crowd noise” by taking the trail less traveled.
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ENP 18.2 Bay Area: Muir Woods National Monument - Conserving Coastal Redwoods
08/27/2019Cassie helps reiterate why redwood trees are so phenomenal — what makes them so resilient and beautiful, and how their many stewards throughout the centuries, from the natives of Mexico to William and Elizabeth Kent and Teddy Roosevelt, helped to protect them.
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ENP 18.1 Bay Area: Trip Report - Muir Woods, Presidio/Fort Point, Rosie the Riveter
08/12/2019San Francisco is full of history, culture, food and experiences. However, as Bryan and I discover, the Bay area is full of National Park Service sites as well (more than 30).
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ENP 17: Tips for Photography in the National Parks with Chris Nicholson
07/30/2019Author of Photographing National Parks and partner with the “National Parks at Night” program, Chris Nicholson’s expertise and advice for both amateur and professional photographers interested in capturing the beauty of National Parks is absolutely indispensable.
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ENP 16: Visiting National Parks by RV
07/17/2019Abigail Trabue and her family run the RV Miles Network and host the RV Miles and The National Parks podcasts. As RV enthusiasts who travel full-time with three young boys, Abby and her husband have a lot of great experience and advice for traveling with a family in RVs and balancing reality and expectation while exploring the world.
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ENP 15.5 Saguaro: Ancestral Roots, Tradition, and Pride
07/02/2019Join Danielle and Park Ranger Tina Andrew on a journey into the native ancestry of Saguaro National Park. Tina Andrew is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, hosts the podcast “Cultivating Indigenous Voices,” and serves as an ancestral park ranger who works to connect youth and the community to the native roots of Saguaro National Park.
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ENP 15.4 Saguaro: Symbol of the American West
06/18/2019Join Bryan and Park Ranger Jeff Walner on an adventure into the wild history and culture within Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona. As the only full-time, year-round ranger in Saguaro National Park, Jeff shares his insight into the origins of Saguaro National Park, its history, and its inextricable and enduring connection to American culture, Hollywood, and the world.
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ENP 15.3 Saguaro: Changing Biodiversity and Tips From a Park Ranger
06/04/2019Don Swann, a biologist who has worked at Saguaro National Park for over twenty years, joins Danielle to discuss the evolution of the biodiversity within Saguaro National Park. They discuss how the environment and biodiversity has changed within the national park overtime and how he both teaches and engages the community to investigate change with him as citizen scientists.
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ENP 15.2 Saguaro: Diversity in Nature and Community
05/20/2019Danielle chats with Saguaro National Park’s Community Engagement Coordinator Cam Juarez about the desert’s spectacular beauty and what he’s doing to ensure that Saguaro’s worldwide popularity has strong roots in the multicultural communities that surround it.
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ENP 15.1 Saguaro: Trip Report
05/03/2019A record-breaking snowstorm with whiteout conditions forces Danielle, Bryan, and the girls to ditch plans to visit the Petrified Forestin northern Arizona in favor of an impromptu visit to the Sonoran Desert — and Saguaro National Park, located in southern Arizona.
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ENP 14 National Park Week and Summer Travel Ideas
04/22/2019Becky Lomax is the author of The Moon Guidebook USA National Parks - The Complete Guide To All 59 Parks. Just in time for National Parks Week, Danielle and Bryan talk with Becky about her favorite itineraries, tips for families planning summer trips, and her lifelong love affair with the National Park Service (NPS).
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ENP 13 Ken Burns Reflects on the National Parks
04/09/2019Ken Burns revisits his acclaimed documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” In this personal, in depth conversation, Ken speaks to his perspective on the national parks ten years after the series broadcast on PBS: the parks as a patriotic paradigm for America at its best and his own family’s relationship to the parks.
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ENP 12 Washington DC: Tips for Visiting the Cherry Blossoms
03/22/2019In episode 12 Danielle speaks with Linda Samuel of KidFriendly DC, a go-to resource for recreation with kids in the Washington, DC-Metro area. Linda and Danielle share their tips for seeing the cherry blossoms and favorite events.
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ENP 11.5 Everglades: Animals and Plants of a Fragile Ecosystem
03/13/2019In episode 11.5 Danielle speaks with Everglades National Park volunteer and naturalist Carmen Ferreiro about the Everglades ecosystem and the biodiversity found in this rich and fragile environment.
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ENP 11.4 Everglades/Biscayne: Tips for Visitors from Everglades Park Ranger
02/28/2019In episode 11.4 Bryan talks with Park Ranger Allyson Gantt about how people have affected the Everglades, conservation efforts and recommendations for how visitors may enjoy the park.
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ENP 11.3 Everglades/Biscayne: Tips for Visitors from Biscayne Park Ranger
02/12/2019In episode 11.3 Bryan talks with Park Ranger Denise Ratajczak about planning a visit to Biscayne National Park, including camping on the keys and her favorite spot for paddleboarding.
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ENP 11.2 Everglades & Biscayne: Trip Report (Part 2)
01/30/2019In episode 11.2 Danielle, Bryan and their daughters talk about their trip to Biscayne National Park in Southern Florida. This is part 2 of the trip report. In Part 1 (episode 11.1), they talk about visiting Everglades National Park during the government shutdown.
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ENP 11.1 Everglades & Biscayne: Trip Report (Part 1)
01/17/2019In episode 11.1 Danielle, Bryan and their daughters talk about their trip to Everglades National Park during the government shutdown. The next episode will be part 2 of the trip discussing Biscayne National Park.
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ENP 10 Looking Back and Looking Forward to 2019
01/02/2019In episode 10.0 Danielle, Bryan and their daughters talk about their favorite experiences in exploring the National Parks, tips for families visiting and a preview of park we will visit in 2019.
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ENP 9.3 Crater Lake: The Legacy of Mount Mazama
12/18/2018In episode 9.3 Bryan talks with Park Ranger Mimi Gorman about how Crater Lake was created by Mount Mazama, what makes it special, mysteries about the lake, the legacy of Mount Mazama and tips for visitors.
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ENP 9.2 Crater Lake: Tips for Planning Your Trip
12/04/2018In episode 9.2 Bryan talks with Park Ranger John Duwe about planning a visit to Crater Lake National Park, including tips for visiting the lake for the first time, hiking, camping, biking, swimming and fishing. They marvel at what makes Crater Lake a place of wonder. John Duwe is Education Coordinator at the Science and Learning Center at Crater Lake National Park.
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ENP 9.1 Crater Lake: Trip Report
11/20/2018In episode 9.1 Bryan talks with his brother Dan about their trip to Crater Lake National Park in September 2018. They discuss appreciating the clear crystal blue lake from many different vantage points including swimming in the very cold lake.
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ENP 8.5 Grand Canyon: Celebrating 100 Years Looking Back and Looking Forward
11/06/2018Grand Canyon National Park celebrates its Centennial in 2019. In this episode Bryan speaks with Park Ranger Perri Spreiser about modern history of the Grand Canyon. Ranger Perri shares stories from Spanish explorers arriving at the Grand Canyon in search of gold to it becoming a tourist destination as well as plans for the next 100 years. This is episode number 8.5, the fifth episode in our series on Grand Canyon National Park.
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