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National parks virtual field trips11/27/2023 ![]() Due to the pandemic, instead of taking in-person field trips, many students are homeschooling or taking classes at home. The PORTS program connects students to California’s diverse cultural, natural, and historic resources through virtual field-trip experiences.Ĭonnecting students to California state parksĬalifornia is home to over 280 State Parks which offers access to 340 miles of coastline, 4500 miles of hiking trails, and more than 75 million visitors annually. When she’s not in search of a story, she loves spending time with her family and skiing, running, biking, backpacking and traveling.Looking for an engaging way to connect students to science and history or to bring real-life nature experiences into the home or classroom?Ĭalifornia State Parks offers K-12 students the opportunity to engage and connect to California parks resources through their PORTS program (Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students). Some of her favorite national park experiences are hiking the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon, taking the trail down to the Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point, snowshoeing to Lone Star Geyser in Yellowstone and doing Rocky Mountain’s East Inlet Trail with her family. Tori’s travels have taken her across the globe and she has lived in Hong Kong, Kenya, Ecuador and Nepal. ![]() She led an award-winning creative team of six and served as editor of the Coloradan magazine, which won two first-place national awards in 20 for magazine excellence, as well as two regional first-place awards and a second-place award in 2011-14. Later the same year, Tori was honored as a Folio: 100, a list of the top innovators, entrepreneurial thinkers, and industry-disruptors in magazine media.īefore joining National Park Trips, Tori worked for her alma mater as director of marketing for the CU-Boulder Alumni Association, developing and executing campaigns for national and local events and programs. In 2018, Tori was recognized for her work with National Park Journal, winning three first-place awards for the Grand Canyon edition of the magazine. She specializes in writing inspiring national park travelogues, foodie adventures and personal, heartfelt stories of people who shape our culture. Other Resourcesįor more webcams, virtual tours, photo galleries, apps, videos, and other digital content at Tori is the former co-brand and content director of National Park Trips. Get inspired by browsing our extensive photo collection including seasonal photo blogs by professional photographers Dave Shumway, Grant Ordelheide and Jeff Vanuga, plus “How To” articles for improving your own shots. They offer sounds of the park with music to provide a window into life in Yellowstone. These soundtracks are great to share with someone who loves Yellowstone and needs a distraction from the COVID-19 24-hour news cycle. Park Noises Put to MusicĪlleviate stress and anxiety when you listen to an audio postcard from the park. You can hear red-winged blackbirds reverberate across Swan Lake lake amidst the sounds of boreal chorus frogs and sandhill cranes, the low groans of grizzly bear and dozens of others. If you want to hear Yellowstone’s animals and geysers, you can listen to this amazing sound library created by the National Park Service and Montana State University as part of their Acoustic Atlas project. + Toggle through 13 locations inside Yellowstone by clicking in the lower right corner on Google Earth screen Listen to Yellowstone’s Animals and Geysers Now If you can’t be there now, this is a really fun way to go on a quick virtual trip to the park. Fly to Yellowstone from Your Couchįly via Google Earth right now to the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone, home to Steamboat Geyser, the tallest geyser in the world at 300–400 feet and Echinus Geyser (pH 3.5 or so), some of the area’s most popular features. ![]() See all 9 webcams at Learn more about Old Faithful. Roosevelt Arch is in the background in this webcam. Look for wildlife, weather conditions and how many people are driving into the park at its North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana. Here are some of our favorite ways to feel like we are in the park. Even if you can’t travel to the park right now, you can still see, hear and experience what’s happening in the park, thanks to some amazing technology like Yellowstone webcams, Google Earth and audio recordings.
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