Three childhood friends from Milford discovered a love for travel and seeing America's natural beauty on trips out west to national parks after graduating from high school in 2019. Along the way, they agreed upon a collective quest: to see all 63 U.S. national parks before they turned 25.

If that seems like a difficult task, it's even harder than it sounds. The U.S. national parks system stretches from above the Arctic Circle in northern Alaska to American Samoa, a Pacific island territory thousands of miles closer to Australia than to the U.S. West Coast. The national parks spread literally to the four corners of the continental U.S., from northwest Washington to Maine to southern Florida to southern California.

The challenge required Scott Poquette, Matthew Hockstad and Brenden Dingman

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