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About The National Parks Experience

We want to help you have the best national parks experience!

The National Parks Experience is a blog dedicated to the national parks, national forests, and other public lands, nature and wildlife conservation, and sustainable outdoor activities.

Our hope is that we can inspire you to experience the great outdoors through our detailed, photo-filled articles, blog posts, and news stories related to the national parks.

Check out our social media pages and channels for regular blog posts, photos, informative links, and news updates.


Our Goals & Purpose


Mission

  • To promote national parks and other federal recreation areas.
  • To inspire people to spend more time actively enjoying nature in a sustainable way.
  • To share immersive, in-depth national park experiences.
  • To provide news and recent events related to the national parks.
  • To promote diversity and inclusivity in the great outdoors, including national parks.

Vision

In an increasingly urban, individualized and technology-based world, it’s more important than ever to keep in touch with nature. With informative write-ups, national park-related blog posts and pages, and inspiring photography, The National Parks Experience aims to help you do just that.

After all, there’s no better place to recharge your batteries and find inner peace than a natural environment, particularly America’s national parks.

There’s no sound more beautiful than the crackling of a campfire at night or the crunch of boots on dirt, no smell more invigorating than a meadow of wildflowers or a pine forest in summer, no sight more awesome than a deep, dark canyon or towering mountain range.

No feeling in the world can replace the sensation of being outdoors.

Join us on the adventure and collect a lifetime worth of national park experiences!


Meet Bram

FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Born in Belgium and based in Oregon, Bram Reusen is the founder, editor-in-chief, and photographer of The National Parks Experience.

He developed a deep love and unwavering appreciation for nature as a young teenager, watching National Geographic documentaries, counting birds in his childhood home’s backyard, and reading all kinds of books about wildlife.

In college, he studied horticulture and eventually obtained a Master of Science degree in Natural Resource Management.

Even before moving to the United States in 2014, Bram was passionate about America’s national parks, forests, and other public lands, and the animals that call these places home.

Already fascinated by the great American outdoors, his interest in national parks became an obsession during a six-week cross-country road trip in 2017, which involved visits to no fewer than fifteen national parks. He’s been exploring parks ever since.

Bram’s love for U.S. national parks keeps bringing him to some of the nation’s most spectacular places, where he enjoys camping, stargazing, exploring trails, and immersing himself in nature in a multitude of ways. He’s also an avid landscape photographer, as well as an experienced hiker and cyclist.

Bram is an expert on all things related to America’s national parks and is on a mission to visit all National Park Service sites.

He documents this fascinating and incredibly fulfilling journey on this website and its associated social media channels.

The National Parks Experience founder and editor-in-chief Bram Reusen enjoys a spectacular view in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

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In addition to this website, we also cover the national parks on a number of social media platforms, as well as in our newsletter.