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Yellowstone Association Buys 80-Acre Parcel Bordering Yellowstone Park for New Campus

Yellowstone Association Buys 80-Acre Parcel Bordering Yellowstone Park for New CampusA prime 80-acre parcel on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park offering stunning views of the Mammoth Hot Springs area and the surrounding mountains has been acquired by the nonprofit Yellowstone Association for $2.25 million.

The property, purchased in early December 2009, will become the association's Yellowstone Overlook Field Campus, Jeff Brown, educational director of the Yellowstone Association, told OldWestNewWest.com Travel & History Magazine, and will be used for small groups seeking educational park experiences.
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Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon National Park’s Desert View Watchtower Threatened By Time, Weather

Grand Canyon National Park’s Desert View Watchtower Threatened By Time, Weather Grand Canyon National Park's Desert View Watchtower, One of the West's most venerable man-made icons, is in trouble.

Constructed in 1932, the 70-foot tower, popular with the thousands of tourists who visit Grand Canyon each year, is suffering from roo...
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California

California’s Mendocino Coast Readies March Whale Watching Festivals

California’s Mendocino Coast Readies March Whale Watching Festivals March is whale-watching month along California's northern Mendocino Coast, and this year promises lots of fun for visitors who want to combine watching with a lot of celebrating.

Whale watching in March is all about the migration of the Eastern Pacifi...
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Other NPs

Temporary Foot Bridge Gives Visitors Access to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico

Temporary Foot Bridge Gives Visitors Access to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico The history of the Southwest is an ancient one, so ancient that sometimes the story is whispered only by the pictographs, cliff dwellings and pottery artifacts left behind by native peoples long since vanished.

One of those special places is Gila Clif...
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Wyoming

Wandering Along a Trail of Western History

Wandering Along a Trail of Western History

Visit the grounds at Wyoming’s Fort Bridger State Historic Site and it’s like wandering along a trail of history, a tributary of the great American West where explorers, fur trappers, Oregon Trail emigrants and Pony Express riders coursed by on t...

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