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Grand Canyon National Park

January

Name this national park with its huge contrasts.

January kicks off with an easily recognizable landscape. (I promise they'll get tougher as the year moves on.) This is one of the national parks I have visited. (I was there in 2004.)

Did you know:

Temperatures here can range from below zero to above 100 degrees.

Some of the driest desert areas in this park get very little rain while other areas average around 12 feet of snow per year.

National Parks

Yellowstone

This year's calendar features a national park for each month. Of the 12 pictured, I have been to just two.

The National Park Service, whose job it is to protect and preserve these national treasures, will celebrate its centennial in 2016.

Yellowstone (pictured at left) was our first national park and is widely considered to have been the first in the world. President Grant established it as a national park in 1872.

Zion National Park

 Zion National Park (pictured at right), located in Utah, was established as a national park in 1919.

I will be posting January's entry in a day or so.