Bobby Magill


Biography

A South Carolina native, Bobby Magill writes from Fort Collins, Colorado, where he lives an hour away — and within view of — Rocky Mountain National Park.



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  • 9/16/2009 9:39 am - Various Care-Taking Projects Under Way in Rocky Mountain National Park : Wasn't the cabin work completed or mostly completed prior to the wilderness designation earlier this year?
  • 8/28/2009 10:18 am - Reader Participation Day: What Indelible Image Best Reminds You of the National Parks? : These are the most indelible images of national parks for me: 1. Scenery along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Growing up in South Carolina, my family would take frequent trips to the Parkway on our vacations. Few places symbolize the National Park System for me quite like the Blue Ridge Parkway. ...
  • 8/26/2009 8:14 am - An Untimely Accident Fatally Injures a Colorado National Monument Bicyclist : The crash occurred on simply the greatest stretch of pavement found anywhere in Colorado. I've cycled the East Hill on Rim Rock Drive at Colorado National Monument dozens and dozens of times, and while the descent can be intense because of the slope, the scenery and the traffic, it's quite ...
  • 6/03/2009 9:44 am - National Park System Quiz 57: Canyons : Great quiz! The observance of Arizona time at Glen Canyon NRA's Dangling Rope Marina in Utah is interesting. I visited Theodore Roosevelt National Park over Memorial Day and became a bit disoriented by the time zone split there. The South Unit is on Mountain Time, while half of the north ...
  • 5/13/2009 1:11 pm - National Park System Quiz 54: Authors : Great quiz! Ed Abbey did time at Arches National Monument, well before it was declared a park in the 1970s.
  • 4/30/2009 9:01 am - Accessible National Parks, Airline Division : A few more to add to that list: Arches National Park's entrance is about 15 miles or so from the Moab/Canyonlands airport, which features direct non-stop commercial flights to and from Denver on Great Lakes Airlines. Add another 20 miles or so, and you'll be at Canyonlands National Park's Island ...
  • 1/04/2009 6:43 pm - Resolved: I’ll Visit at Least These Five National Parks in 2009 : If you're gonna trek from South Carolina to western Colorado, there are two other NPS gems you can't miss: Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction, where the six-mile roundtrip hike of Monument Canyon is one of the best on the Colorado Plateau. Rim Rock Drive is easily the best and ...
  • 11/12/2008 4:43 pm - Arches National Park Finds Its Birthday Overshadowed By Drilling Concerns : This is all the more tragic because you can already see oil wells from famous vistas within Arches. Spend some time at the Windows at night, look west toward Canyonlands, and lo and behold, it's very easy to spot flames from two or three flaring oil wells that sit just ...
  • 10/06/2008 9:13 am - Park History: Dinosaur National Monument : Of all our NPS-managed national monuments, Dinosaur most deserves to be elevated to national park status. Dinosaur, as you elucidate above, is an amazing place, an oft-overlooked gem of a park full of opportunities for adventure. It even features one of the top 10 largest natural arches in the world, ...
  • 10/01/2008 9:02 am - Pruning the Parks: Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area Was a National Park for Just Five Years : The NPS apparently very much wants to keep Curecanti NRA, and currently has a plan out for public comment that would expand Curecanti and calls on Congress to officially designate the NPS manager of the public land surrounding Curecanti's three reservoirs. Curecanti, very likely Colorado's most inferior NPS unit, is ...


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Classic Road Bike Rides in the National Parks of the Intermountain West

Experiencing our national parks’ grandeur from the saddle of a road bike is a bit like summiting a high peak. The arduous pedal through the park is rewarded with the scenery and equally thrilling descent from the park roads’ high points. Fall is sublime for cycling in national parks, so with the season quickly approaching, now is the time to experience the Mountain West’s greatest national park road cycling routes.