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Traveler's View: Congress, National Park Service Need To Restructure Fees For Centennial Celebration

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on March 11, 2013 - 2:41am
"Mountaineers are always free" is West Virginia's state motto, but that sentiment is getting harder and harder to find in the National Park System, where an imbalance in fee structures charges you for sleeping on the bare ground but not for burning gas as you negotiate the 11-mile loop of Cades Cove.

Traveler's View: National Park Service Shouldn't Contribute To Technological Disconnect With Nature

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 11, 2013 - 2:51am
While the National Park Service is moving ahead to test expanded cellphone and Wi-Fi service in some units of the National Park System, it should consider that testing carefully and measure it against the relative solitude and release from the seemingly nonstop attention wireless technology can demand that park visits provide.

Traveler's View: Proposed Monument Around Canyonlands National Park Deserves Serious Consideration

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on January 13, 2013 - 2:43am
A proposal to create a 1.4-million-acre national monument wrapping Canyonlands National Park in Utah should not be dismissed out of hand, but receive serious consideration from the Obama administration. And it should receive equally serious consideration from Utah officials who promote the state's recreational wonders in one breath and demand a turnover of federal lands in the next.

Traveler's View: National Park Service Is Sending Conflicting Messages Concerning Bike Race At Colorado National Monument

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on November 25, 2012 - 2:47am
Sadly, in less than four months the National Park Service seemingly has reversed itself and cracked open the door to a professional bicycle race climbing through Colorado National Monument.

Traveler's View: Yellowstone National Park Deserves A Better Winter-Use Plan

Submitted by NPT Editors on July 12, 2012 - 1:23am
Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park and the place that started the global national parks movement, deserves a better winter-use plan than the one being pushed by park officials.

Traveler's View: National Park Foundation Erred In Licensing Air Fresheners And Tricked Out Trucks

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 12, 2012 - 1:25am
The National Park Foundation erred in reaching licensing agreements with trucks tricked out for conquering wilderness and air fresheners many associate with bathrooms.

Traveler's View: No Professional Bike Racing At Colorado National Monument

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 21, 2011 - 2:20am
If a professional bike race charging through Colorado National Monument is the key to the rugged red-rock landscape and its treasures in western Colorado being redesignated as a "national park," then it's time to end the discussion over a name change.