Don’t ask Theresa Pierno to pick her favorite national park.
It’s like asking her to pick a favorite kid, said Pierno, who’s preparing to leave her post leading the National Parks Conservation Association early next year.
She has parks she’s gone back to multiple times, like the parks in Alaska. She has camped at Kobuk Valley National Park above the Arctic Circle. Then there’s Glacier National Park and the iconic parks of the Southwest. “How do you go to Zion” or to “Chaco and not be blown away?” she said.
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Pierno loves some of the less-visited parks, too, like Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
