The Joys of Being a Junior Ranger
Every summer, our family develops a new passion. One year, it was geocaching. One year, it was watching “American Ninja Warrior.” This year, our passion involves visiting some of the sites of the National Park Service. During the visit, our children collect a Junior Ranger booklet for the Visitor’s Center and work on earning their Junior Ranger badges. It has been a great joy to visit some of our nation’s national parks and monuments and learn so much about the parks through the Junior Ranger program. Our son loves nature and animals. As I was researching about the Rocky Mountain National Park before a visit last year, I stumbled upon the Junior Ranger program. Each park has its own booklet and badge (or patch) for children. And since each park is unique in what it offers, each Junior Ranger book offers something new for our children to learn or explore. Sometimes the kids will have to identify animals they saw or heard at the park. O