Read our Essay Contest Runners-up

The results from our 2001 essay contest are in. Judging wasn’t easy—more than 400 of you submitted essays about personal places ranging from Alaska’s Denali National Park to New Hampshire’s White Mountains National Forest.

Congratulations to our winner, Key West-based Barbara Bowen, who will receive a National Geographic Expeditions trip to Baja, California, and the Sea of Cortés. To read her essay, check out the March 2002 print edition. Call 800 777 2800 (U.S. and Canada) to order a sample issue. Or subscribe.

To read essays by our nine runners-up, click on a destination:

Alaska

Cape Cod National Seashore

Denali National Park, Alaska

Keeneland, Lexington, Kentucky

Monhegan Island

New York City Walks

North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park

Puget Sound

White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire