Happy Holidays from Zweig Group

Happy Holidays from Zweig Group

we hope you will enjoy the beauty this country has to offer. flip through to check out some of our national park adventures!

wishing you and yours a joyful holiday season and a happy new year!

-Jamie Claire Kiser

Buffalo National River Park

“The Buffalo River, located in Northern Arkansas, was the first National River to be designated in the United States. We floated the upper section this summer which has most of the whitewater rapids to be found along the river and features dramatic karst topography including sink holes and caves, springs, and waterfalls, sandstone and limestone bluffs, and many rock formations. After the past year, the value of the outdoors and our National Parks is greater than ever. They offer an extraordinary escape, often free from all the things that bind us in everyday life including cell phones as many areas are without service. They offer a true getaway and focus on nature.”

-Chad Clinehens

Rocky Mountain National Park

-Chad Coldiron

Yellowstone National Park

-Stephanie Warino

“Yeah, but did you die?” -The perfect meme reference that would dismiss all the misery I (felt like) I went through that weekend of June 2018. This is the only picture of me at the Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. My friends and I had just completed an almost-9-hr hike from the North Rim to get there. About half of those 9 hours were in ~137F heat. I ended up with aggressive nosebleeds from

huffing and puffing in the dry hot air. Pictured here was episode 3 of said nosebleeds, it happened after we arrived at the legendary Phantom Lodge. I wish I felt more glorious when I got there, but I was a bloody mess and exhausted. I was not pleased,

but “I didn’t die.” More than 3 years later, this has now become my most favorite National Parks memory. I still do not recommend the R2R hike in June or any other summer months.”

-Shirley Che

Grand Canyon National Park

Badlands National Park

“Everyone should have their mind blown once a day according to Neil deGrasse Tyson. The mind-blowing formations of the Badlands told stories spanning millions of years in just a couple of days of visiting. Experiences with nature like this one provide a nice recharge in areas like creativity and attention-to-detail that I can translate back to my normal life.”

-Tyler Thompson

Grand Canyon National Park

- Ana Sofia Gonzalez

Red Rocks Mountain Park

- John Bray

Acadia National Park

“Watch the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain while every tree turns a different shade of fall! Acadia National Park is breathtaking; experiencing it during autumn makes the trip even more memorable. 10/10 would recommend.” -Katelyn Dover

“I literally can’t separate the life I’ve known from time spent outdoors in Rocky Mountain National Park. For generations, my family spent part of every year in those mountains. My father is a Fourteener (someone who has climbed all fourteen mountains in RMNP), and to this day still holds the record for forty-two ascents of the peaks of the Rocky Mountain National Park in one four-week term when he was a young camper at Cheley Camps. My mother and my son were both campers there as well as Junior Counselors. My grandparents actually MET there. I’ve had a close friend who was a park ranger there. My life and experiences and my continued view of the world are forever shaped by time spent listening to the aspen leaves and smelling the Ponderosa pines in the wind. Realizing that, while generations of my family lived many days alongside them, THOSE mountains were always there and have never changed. Always providing moments for the most humbling of realizations that weare part of this beautiful world, we should enjoy it and protect it.

The grandest feelings of true awe towards the natural world alwaysrun through me when I am there and stay with me all of the times that I am not there. The sunrises, the sunsets, the brilliant stars in the night sky... Away from the lights of cities and towns. The wild animals. Every season specifically marked by colors and weather that I hope can survive climate change. I can close my eyes and be there when I am stressed out and need to “go away.” I truly cannot imagine life without national parks such as Rocky Mountain National Park. As Frank Cheley once said, "Great thingshappen when youth and mountains meet." And that’s true for every one of every age”. -Margot Moulton

Rocky Mountain National Park

Everglades National Park

- Maisie Johnson

Dry Tortugas National Park

“Rocky Mountain National Park and Lake Eileen holds a special place in my heart, as this is where my husband and I were married. It was supposed to be a sunny fall day but, as the mountains do, it decided to snow the evening before our ceremony. It was 28 degrees when we said “I Do” but I wouldn’t change a thing! We enjoy the outdoors and treasure this place!”

-Tracey Eaves

Rocky Mountain National Park

Grand Teton National Park

“The outdoor experience allows me to get away and reconnect with something larger that is outside of myself.”

Yellowstone National Park

-Phil Keil

Mesa Verde National Park

Buffalo National River

“We’re fortunate to have so much beautifully preserved land in the U.S., and I’ve loved having the opportunity to explore a few of these incredible parks over the years. Getting to experience them with family and friends made these places even more special for me.”

-Sara Parkman

Grand Canyon National Park

“This is a photo of a photo taken in 1991. It’s the first non-wedding photo of Martha and I as a married couple. We visited Grand Canyon NP just a few days after the ceremony.”

-Tom Godin