America’s national parks have been strained since February when the Trump administration began to lay off thousands of federal workers. For months, one Minnesota family got a front-row seat to the impacts of those cuts as they took a "roadschooling" trip across the nation.

The dream: National parks become classrooms

The family’s recreational vehicle would be their house and school bus, and the national parks would serve as their classroom and playground. That was Jen Goepfert and Travis Pedersen’s plan for when their twin girls reached third grade.

Then, Goepfert’s sister Chris, who works for the National Parks Conservation Association, reminded her that through the national program Every Kid Outdoors, families of fourth graders get free admission to all national parks and federal lands

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