The month of August is back and that means it is time to celebrate the 101st Anniversary of the National Park Service! Last year we were so pleased to see how many guests and employees helped us celebrate the 100th Anniversary throughout the year. With the National Park Service's birthday on August 25th, that means another fee-free day is back for all guests eager to visit the National Parks. As a tribute to the National Parks Service, we wanted to take a moment to look at some of our most popular National Park property destinations.

This past summer has rendered a crazy whirlwind of amazing photos from all around the country to honor this year's National Park Service Centennial. Since April 25th, our judges here at the Forever Resorts home office have had the chance to see all of the great photos for themselves, and each voting became harder and harder as submissions into the contest got more captivating.

Congratulations to all of our winners for the month of August! As many of you know, we have extended the length of our contest by one month so you still have time to enter your #MyNatureSelfie. The last day to enter your submissions will be September 25 and we will announce the Grand Prize winner on September 30th! You can find out how to enter at the end of this page.

August 25, 2016 marked the 100th Birthday for the National Parks Service and our NPS properties took the time to celebrate. We're so grateful to have so many properties in the National Parks and NPS waters and areas that we do so naturally we had cause to celebrate as well. Even our team at the Forever Resorts home office in Scottsdale, Arizona, along with our CEO Rex Maughn joined in on the festivities.

The #MyNatureSelfie Contest continues and this past July had no lack of great photos. Thank you to all of our participants, just remember, even if you didn't win the weekly or monthly prize, your submissions are still in the running for the grand prize.

As August gets closer and closer, we still continue to get more amazing photos submitted to us from all across the country for the #MyNatureSelfie contest. We are so excited to see everyone else getting as geared up for the National Park Service Centennial as we are with all of your #MyNatureSelfie Submissions. This past month, we had one winner who lucked out and not only won for their weekly running, but for the month of June as well. See this month's past winners!

We've seen so many great submissions in the past month to our #MyNatureSelfie Contest and couldn't be happier about the submissions. From Florida to Hawaii to Bryce Canyon, the submissions have come in far and wide. Even if you haven't won yet, thank you all for such great submissions. These winners along with our other submissions from the end of April and all of May will be considered for the grand prize voting in August.

The National Park Service is turning 100 this year and they have celebrated with the Every Kid in a Park Art Contest here at Lake Mead! Along with the Clark County School District School-Community Partnership Office and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, students from the school district were encouraged to create an image that displayed the beautiful park lands of Southern Nevada and the National Park Service’s Every Kid in a Park Centennial theme.