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Ron Ukrainetz recently became the first Great Falls artist to have two paintings selected in a single year for the prestigious Paint the Parks 100, an annual international art competition also known as Art in the Parks.

Ted Hustead's family knows a thing or two about running a tourist attraction during tough economic times.Consider Wall Drug, on the north edge of South Dakota's Badlands.Hustead's grandparents, Ted and Dorothy Hustead, bought the store in this small town in 1931 -- during the Great Depression.

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Carla and Jim Boerman of Walworth, N.Y., have been campers for nearly two decades, starting when their twin daughters, who are now in college, were just 18 months old. Their family has stayed in Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks, and they've sampled campgrounds in New York and neighboring states, graduating from pop-ups to small travel trailers to a 30-foot fifth wheel.

 Five years after Mount Rainier took his best friend, Scott Richards can finally tell the story without crying.But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt."It's still vivid," Richards said. "I'm still sad."

The National Park Service at Coronado National Memorial in cooperation with the Federal Highways Administration is proposing to resurface, restore and rehabilitate the previously paved 3.5 miles of roadway within the memorial and to provide a sustainable drainage system along the paved portion of the roadway.

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Amidst the glitz and glamour of Miami and Miami Beach is a hideaway whose secret is just now getting out. It's the Hotel Indigo Miami-Dadeland (www.miamidadelandhotel.com) in the growing downtown Dadeland business center on Miami's's growing south side.

Visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 3 can expect to experience a wide variety of educational programs, patriotic tributes, and musical entertainment in celebration of Independence Day.  The memorial has planned a full day of events as many visitors arrive early in the morning to secure a parking spot and to find a place to watch the fireworks.  The festivities, including music and entertainment, begin at 1:00 pm on Friday, July 3 and culminate with the highly anticipated fireworks display at 9:20 pm.

The Glacier National Park Fund has set a $3.5 million fundraising goal for upgrades and restoration as the park nears its centennial.

One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons -- some thicker than a forearm -- were dumped into a pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence.Some hissed and lunged. Others coiled up under the brush and trees. For the next year all of them will call the pit home.

For one long September weekend, Alaskans get to reclaim Denali National Park from bus loads of tourists and see their best-known reserve in its autumn glory.

The depths of the Grand Canyon. The graceful sandstone arches of southern Utah. The grizzly bears of Glacier National Park. Half Dome towering over the Yosemite valley. The rolling blue hills of the Shenandoah. The haunted swamps of the Everglades. The bubbling pots and steamy geysers of Yellowstone.

Peering down a cliff face at the valley floor several hundred feet below, I faltered and gulped. My son, Ian, probably fortified by the sense of immortality that often infects young men in their late teens, scrambled up the narrow trail like a mountain goat.

At first, Ray Rafiti thought a black bear spooked the elk he was photographing at Rocky Mountain National Park above treeline near Trail Ridge Road last Friday.Too agile to be a black bear, he said, the animal looked more like the wolverine that wandered into Colorado from Wyoming in mid-June.