Each Thursday in the National Park Trip Planning Facebook Group, we will be testing your National Park knowledge with our fun and tricky Emoji Challenge! 🎉 From soaring mountains 🏔 to winding rivers 🚣, each puzzle gave you three emojis to decode the name of a U.S. National Park. Be sure to put your your guess in on the post in the Facebook group to lock in your answer before checking out the answer. NO CHEATING. Puzzle 1 – Feb 20, 2025​ Puzzle 2 – Feb 27, 2025​ Puzzle 3 – Mar 6, 2025​ Puzzle 4 – Mar 13, 2025​ Puzzle 5 – Mar 20, 2025​ Puzzle 6 – Mar…

I’ve delayed writing this article for about a week and a half due to illness and wanting to give myself a chance to calm down. But this issue has me hot under the collar, and I have a lot of opinions. North America’s tallest mountain is named DENALI, and it will stay that way in this blog, all communications, and social media posts. History of Denali’s Name Indigenous History of the Name Denali has had a fair number of names over the 10,000 years of human inhabitation in Alaska. While the written word didn’t arrive in Alaska until the late 1700s with the European explorers, the names are recorded in…