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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

February 15, 2020 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Lower falls, Yellowstone

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is unlike any other canyon in color, charm, in picturesque calendar-ready beauty, wild and frightening.

Filed Under: Places, Sacred Wonderland Tagged With: canyons, geology, nature, osprey, rivers, stones, Yellowstone

Morning on the Riverwalk along the San Antonio River

January 12, 2020 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

River walk along the San Antonio River

I greet the day with delight in the cool air of dawn. I am happily surprised to find a sliver of solitude along the San Antonio riverwalk.

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: colonialism, nature, rivers, San Antonio, tourism, Yanaguana

Trekking through the Yellowstone “Museum of Wonders”

September 1, 2019 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Upper Geyser Basin

Wonder-Land Illustrated by Harry J. Norton, published in 1873, was one of the first tourbooks recounting the Yellowstone experience for a general audience.

Filed Under: Places, Reviews, Sacred Wonderland Tagged With: geysers, Montana, nature, tourism, Yellowstone

Warren Angus Ferris, Yellowstone’s first tourist

January 13, 2019 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Little Cub geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park

Warren Angus Ferris visited Yellowstone in 1834 as the first tourist to experience the thermal features, and the first person known to use the Icelandic word “geyser” to describe them.

Filed Under: History, Places, Sacred Wonderland Tagged With: geysers, Native Americans, nature, tourism, trappers, Yellowstone

The spiritual experience of nature in the national parks

November 5, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

The tourist experience of Yellowstone National Park

The National Park Service’s management of nature offers America’s wild places as contrived experiences to meet the spiritual expectations of the consumer public.

Filed Under: Sacred Wonderland Tagged With: National Park Service, National Parks, nature, religious tourism, spirituality, tourism

The Calvinist roots of appreciating Acadia’s scenery

September 17, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Sunset from the Beech Mountain Trail

Visitors who delight in nature and stunning scenery at places like Acadia National Park often do not realize their aesthetic debt to Protestant reformer and theologian John Calvin.

Filed Under: History, Places Tagged With: Acadia, art, Calvin, Frederic Church, Hudson River School, landscapes, Maine, National Parks, nature, theology, tourism

At River’s Edge Beneath a Wall of Yellow Stone

August 31, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

A wall of yellow rock, Yellowstone National Park

The land is philosopher. It teaches through patient being that knowing is as futile and useless as believing. Things are, circumstances unfold and collapse, and reality persists.

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: nature, philosophy, rivers, space, time, Yellowstone

The Carriage Roads of Acadia National Park

August 29, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Carriage road, Acadia National Park

Acadia National Park has become infested with an epidemic of automobiles, but many visitors escape the traffic on the refurbished carriage roads where they can enjoy the park by equine-powered carriages, on foot or bicycle.

Filed Under: Places Tagged With: Acadia, automobiles, carriage roads, National Parks, nature, Rockefeller

Cars in the parks: a blessing and a curse

July 26, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

Cars parked at Boulder Pass Trailhead

Cars have been both a blessing and a curse for national parks. They are how most of us get to the places we love, but they also hurt the places we love.

Filed Under: History Tagged With: automobiles, cars, National Parks, nature, tourism

Going into nature to become undisguised and naked

July 12, 2018 by Thomas S. Bremer Leave a Comment

On the bank of the Elwha River, Olympic National Park, Washington

Nature allows us to be undisguised and naked, without judging us or demanding that we be something other than the vulnerable, frightened animals that we are.

Filed Under: Random Tagged With: authenticity, identity, nature, Poetry, society, Walt Whitman

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I write about religion and tourism, especially in regard to national parks. I am currently working on a history of religion in Yellowstone National Park. Read More…

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