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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 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!

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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 America3 days ago
Bald cypress and their trademark "knees" poking up out of the surrounding swamp, Congaree National Park (photo by Brad Lyons)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America7 days ago
To wander and ponder along these sixty acres is to see the sights that inspired one of America’s most famous artists, J Alden Weir. Weir was an impressionist painter, whose interpretive style was along the line of French impressionist Claude Monet. Rather than trying to capture as life-like an image as possible, the impressionists sought to capture the play of light upon their subjects and to give the viewer of the painting permission to see and imagine their true form and nature between the brush strokes and accents. It is your mind that gives its own expression to the window thrown open by the artist on canvas. A visit to Weir Farm National Historical Park today may give you a chance encounter with one of 35 painters in residence of the Weir Studio on property that was purchased for a painting and $10.
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America1 week ago
A crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), National Park of American Samoa (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
While we associate the Canaveral with the land across the bay with slipping the surly bonds of earth for interspace travel, the Canaveral National Seashore is quite different from its famous neighbor. It exists because people saw the shrinking of a diverse ecosystem of reeds and tidewater in favor of development which would have stripped away the home of 1,000 species of plants, the nesting ground for five types of sea turtles, and home address 15 species of endangered creatures from manatees and birds to the right whale. A quiet place to preserve what we know already exists, next a place that is the launch pad to explore what we are yet to discover about what life might be like beyond the third rock from the sun. A proof, if you will, that we can hold contrasting concepts next to each other with a value for both.
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 crater lake atop Mount Katmai, Katmai National Park & Preserve (AVOUAF Geophysical Institute photograph by Pavel Izbekov)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America3 weeks ago
Great Fountain Geyser erupts at sundown, Yellowstone National Park (NPS/Neal Herbert)