Wish You Were Here

National parks, family bonding and breathtaking scenery. Readers open their photo albums and share travel adventures.

Reader vacation photos

1. WHIRLWIND JOURNEY

I loved Montana’s Glacier National Park, a stop on my 32-day road trip to 13 national parks on my summer break from teaching! AUSTIN HOWARD SMYRNA, GA

2. PAINTERLY MAGIC

The colors and texture of the water and clouds at Edgewater Park in Cleveland, Ohio, look like art on canvas.

RICK DEAL STRONGSVILLE, OH

3. FEELS LIKE HOME

We could think of no better place for our adopted children to put down roots than in America’s national parks. Here we are enjoying Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado.

RENEE LONGSHORE APPLE VALLEY, CA

4. ROOM TO RUN

This captures the pure bliss that my dog Penny and I feel when we can spend time under the sun in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

ALYSSA ELLEGAARD FERTILE, MN

5. FROM THE TOP

This is the view from Spruce Knob Lake in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest. It is the highest point in West Virginia. The scenery is nature at its best! SUSAN RUFENER ORRVILLE, OH

6. PICK YOUR PLEASURE Dahlia farms add to the scenic beauty along the picturesque drive to Mount Hood in Oregon. JIMMIE McCARTY STARKVILLE, MS 6

7. ALASKA WILD Watching the bears during a salmon run in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve was an amazing experience. GERALD P. RUNDE TEUTOPOLIS, IL 7