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Your national park experience can be a holy experience, too!

More than 400 national parks, historic sites, lakeshores, rivers, battlefields, and trails across the United States and its territories are protected by the National Park Service - "America's best idea." America's Holy Ground and America's Sacred Sites take you to more than 100 of these beloved sites, known for their inspiring natural beauty, unmatched diversity, historical preservation, and personal inspiration - but unlike a tour book, they will help you see God and the sacred everywhere you go.

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Brad & Bruce

Brad Lyons and Bruce Barkhauer

We aren't backwoods hermits - we're normal folks just like you who  love national parks. We just happened to figure out a way to take it to the next level!

Front-page photos

A camera is perched to photogaph a rocky stream and a towering bluff

Curious where the photo at the top of the page is from? Here's a complete list of photos and their sources.

America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America4 hours ago
Chief Mountain, Glacier National Park (NPS photo)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America4 days ago
It was a simple toy that looked like a modern-day propeller. Playing with it inspired a couple of brothers to leave their bicycle business to solve the mystery of creating the controlled powered flight of a heavier than air machine. Six decades after their 120-foot, 12-second “slipping of the surly bonds of earth,” humans would set foot on the moon. The relationship between Inspiration and innovation are highlighted at Wright Brothers National Memorial on the North Carolina coast.
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America1 week ago
The Gothic Palace, the first room in Great Basin National Park's Lehman Caves. (NPS photo)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America2 weeks ago
The Civil War could have ended in a massacre, but instead Confederate soldiers were allowed to take their horses and weapons home and a voucher for food from the Union army. Learn why MERCY is Appomattox Court House National Historical Park’s theme in “America’s Sacred Sites.”
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America2 weeks ago
Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve(NPS photo)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America2 weeks ago
How many of you don't feel like you're in a National Park Service unit until you have a ***unigrid***? Here's the scoop on those black-striped handouts for every park. And who else keeps them in alphabetical order in a file cabinet? Surely it's not just us.