Centennial Events Archive

Ranger Doug’s NPS Centennial Roadtrip

December 29, 2015:  Rose Bowl @ Pasadena Convention Center: @ Spirit Theater:

   Tuesday,  December 29 @ 11am;

   Wednesday, 12/30 @ 10am and

   Thursday 12/31 @ 1pm. 

January 15, 2016:  Joshua Tree National Park, Jumbo Rocks Campground 7pm

January 16, 2016:  Joshua Tree National Park, Blackrock Campground 7pm Auditorium.

January 17, 2016:  Joshua Tree National Park, Blackrock Campground 7pm Auditorium

January 19, 2016:  Joshua Tree National Park, Rattlesnake Room, Visitors Cennter, 29 Palms noon.

January 29, 2016:  Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek Visitors Center, 7pm

January 30, 2016:  Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek Visitors Center, noon

February 5, 2016:  Saguaro National Park (West District) Visitors Center, 11:15 am and 3:15 pm

February 6, 2016:  Saguaro National Park (West District) Visitors Center, 11:15 am and 3:15 pm

February 12, 2016:  National New Deal Preservation Association, Alburquerque, time/place tba

February 25, 2016:  Big Bend Chisos Basin Campground 7:30pm

February 26, 2016:  Big Bend Rio Grande Village Campground Amphigheater 7:30pm

March 6-10:  APPL Tradeshow, Spokane WA

March 15, 2016:  Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio Texas, 6-8pm (Members only)  There may be a second talk, tba.

April 2-3, 216:  Ernest Coe Visitors Center, Everglades National Park–1pm Saturday and Sunday.

April 15-20:  Search for GSM original in Gatlinburg, Asheville and surrounds–nothing found…..

April 29, Friday: Shenandoah National Park:  Byrd Visitors Center 3pm (milepost 51)

April 30, Saturday:  Shenandoah National Park:  Byrd Visitors Center 11am and 2pm (milepost 51 Skyline Drive)

May 1, Sunday:  Shenandoah National Park: Dickey Visitors Center (impromptu) (milepost 4.6 Skyline Drive)

May 2-12   Washington DC, Smithsonian, cancelled. 

May 14:  Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historic Sites, 4097 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY:  6pm.  

May 25:  Jesup Library, 34 Mt. Desert St. Bar Harbor ME:  6:30pm

May 27:  Acadia National Park staff ‘brown bag’ lunch.  Noon.

May 28:  Southwest Harbor Public Library at 33 Main St., Southwest Harbor, ME (Acadia Partner) 11am-noon.

June 7:  Homesteader Museum, Powell Wyoming 7pm–be there–the Airstream will be there and also the artist who painted the “Sistine Chapel” interior.  Four originals on display. 

June 1-15:  Transit West to Teddy Roosevelt, Powell, Cody, Yellowstone, Jackson Hole–

June 17:  Grand Teton National Park–Moose Visitor Center 5pm

June 18, 2016:  National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole Wyoming, 10:30am & 12:30pm..  Opening gallery talk.  Four original WPA National Park posters on exhibit with 30 other historic and contemporary park designs until mid-August. 

June 21:   7pm Colter Bay Campground, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

June 22:  10am, 1pm, 4pm Haynes Studio, Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP (moved to Bookstore)

June 23:  10am, 1pm, 4pm Haynes Studio, Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP (moved to Bookstore)

June 24:  10am, 1pm, 4pm Haynes Studio, Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP (moved to Bookstore)

June 25:  10am, 1pm, 4pm Haynes Studio, Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP (moved to Bookstore)

June 27 & 28:  Glacier National Park–Community Building–noon–open to the public.

July 12:  Crater Lake:  Mazama Village, 7:30.

July 13, Crater Lake:  Community Center Rim Village, 12:30pm 

August 7:  Mt. Rainier National Park, Ohanapecosh 8:30pm (signing posters in the am on the 8th)

August 8:  Mt. Rainier National Park, Cougar Rock (Longmire) Campground, 8:30pm 

August 11:  Mt. Rainier National Park, White River Campground 7pm

August 24-26:  Gardiner”Centennial Poster Special” signings–place tba.  

August 24:  Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, poster unveiling (I cannot attend)

August 28-30:  Jackson Hole, Wyoming (tentative)

August 31-Sept 1:  Dinosaur National Monument–Vernal Public Library–times tba.

September 2-3:  Grand Lake, Colorado times tba.  (west side of Rocky Mountain National Park)

September 6:  Rocky Mountain National Park/Estes Park, Beaver Meadows Visitors Center, 7:30pm

September 7/8:  Black Canyon of the Gunnison, pending

September 9:  Grand Canyon, North Rim Lodge Auditorium 8:30pm

September 11:  South Rim Grand Canyon–Afternoon Porch Talk–Verkamps Studio, 4pm

September 12:  South Rim Grand Canyon–Shrine of Ages 7:30pm

September 14-20:  Lassen Volcanic,  tba

September 20:  Walnut Canyon National Monument Visitors Center (Flagstaff), 6-7:30pm

September 22: Flagstaff Public Library, 6:30pm

September 25-October 20:  Jackson Wyoming area

September 23-30:  Flagstaff Festival of Science

September 19-25:  Denver area, tba

October 27-30:  Santa Fe, Ranger Rendezvous, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta

November 1:  Moab Information Center (center of town) 6pm

November 4:  Grand Canyon History Symposium (S. Rim) 6pm

November 10, 2016:  Zion National Park @ the Fern and J. L. Crawford Lecture Series–time and location TBA.