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Emily Pennington

Boulder, Los Angeles
As seen in: CNN, CNN International, CNN Underscored, MSN, MSN Canada, The New York Times, Yahoo Life, Business Insider, Terra, The Guardian and
Covers:  Travel, Wellness, Health, Outdoors, Environment, Yoga, Fitness, Climate Change, National Parks, Adventure, Sustainability
Author. Adventurer. Photographer. Words in: @NYTimes + @outsidemagazine + @cntraveler. Visited every national park! For inquiries: BrazenBackpacker@gmail.com

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Emily Pennington is a freelance writer based in Boulder, CO. She’s written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Outside Magazine, CNN, Lonely Planet, REI, Backpacker Magazine, Mountain Life Magazine, and dozens of websites like Outdoor Project, The Outbound, Territory Supply, and Modern Hiker, to name a few. She also runs a blog and a popular Instagram account under the moniker Brazen Backpacker.

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I've been to all 63 US national parks. These 4 are my favorites — but these 3 didn't impress me much.

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By Emily Pennington
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Maybe I just got a bout of bad weather on the choppy boat ride out to Florida's Dry Tortugas, but I found this to be the least impressive of America's beachy national parks. Its snorkeling areas felt small and relatively devoid of marine life during my visit. Although the park's Civil War-era fort is an impressive feat of engineering, it feels much more like a national monument dedicated to our country's history than a blissful island escape.
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I've been to all 63 US national parks. These 4 are my favorites — but these 3 didn't impress me much.

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By Emily Pennington
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MND Local: Swimsuit models in Loreto and a rise in dental tourism in Tijuana Loreto has been in the news a lot lately, most notably for the way its residents fought back against an April 10 decree to reclassify it as a …
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I've been to all 63 US national parks. These 4 are my favorites — but these 3 didn't impress me much.

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By Emily Pennington
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Emily Pennington Tue, June 9, 2026 at 2:06 p.m. UTC 6 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After visiting all the national parks in the US, I have favorites and a few I'm in no rush to return to. I've visited all of the US national parks. Of the 63, I have a few favorites and letdowns. Gates of the Arctic, Big Bend, and Yosemite have blown me away. I didn't love Dry Tortugas National Park or Gateway Arch National Park — neither felt immersive.
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