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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 America1 week ago
Arches National Park's iconic Delicate Arch and the surrounding cliffs and bluffs (NPS/Mackenzie Reed)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America3 weeks ago
Camping on the Sand Dunes at Kobuk Valley 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 weeks ago
The Kings River, Kings Canyon National Park (Photo: Brad Lyons)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America1 month ago
Bridge Trail passes under the New River Gorge Bridge in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (NPS photo/Dave Bieri)
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America
America's Holy Ground & Sacred Sites: 112 Faithful Reflections for America1 month ago
Natchez, Mississippi, was the western hub of early American travel. Trade goods rode the river current south, and often the trader would walk home to the Ohio River valley - following the Natchez Trace to Nashville, Tennessee. Nowadays, traveling is so much easier, and satisfying the urge to hit the highway is relatively easy. Sometimes we find ourselves traveling, though, for a reason more compelling than to “see what’s there.” If we’re lucky, it’s a pilgrimage — an effort to connect something geographic and tangible to something spiritual and intangible, to make a connection that can’t always be souvenired in a gift shop.