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slash guide. For this holiday season I thought it'd be great to revisit some of my favorite short stories we've

told here from way back in 2018 about magical Christmases in America's first

National Park.

Back then, I said that one of my dreams is to stay in a National Park lodge at Christmas.

What could be more magical?

Grand log-beamed lobbies decked out in real pine trimmings, the crackling of massive

stone fireplaces, and decadent holiday feasts while far away from civilization, with the glories of snow-blanketed nature in every direction.

I haven't accomplished that goal yet, hopefully one day, but for now we'll have to settle

for the verbal imagery.

I'm Jason Epperson, and this is the America's National Parks Podcast. the Yellowstone National Park was established on March 1st, 1872, as the world's first.

Between 1872 and 1886, the park was administered by the Interior Department and managed by a civilian

superintendent with limited resources and almost no legal authority to maintain the park's

natural features and wildlife.

Over the next decade, special interest groups such as concessionaires and

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