08/25/2026
Some places remain because someone chose to think beyond their own lifetime.
Trails were built. Forests were protected. Meadows, mountains, rivers, wildlife, and historic places were set aside not for immediate gain, but for lasting good.
That is one of the most extraordinary ideas behind our national parks:
People protected these places for strangers they would never meet.
For us.
Today marks the 110th birthday of the National Park Service, and Day Four of our PRICELESS journey feels especially fitting.
The promise was never simply that we would get to enjoy these places.
It was that we would care for them, honor them, and eventually hand them forward.
Someone protected these places without knowing our names.
What an extraordinary gift.
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Day Four of PRICELESS, our visual celebration of National Park Week...