Your anniversary messages and memories

Happy Anniversary!

As president of the CNP, Happy Anniversary National Parks. It is 60 years today since they were created by the national parks act in 1949.
Ben Fogle

Happy 60th anniversary to our fantastic National Parks! Long may they remain sources of inspiration, places of beauty & a national treasure.
Ruth Chambers, CNP

60th Anniversary Greetings from Michael Dower, former National Park Officer and son of the wartime architect of National Parks, John Dower
Passed on from Jim Dixon, Chief Executive of the Peak District National Park

From the Nahuel Huapi National Park, Patagonia Argentina, congratulations and applause for those 60 years!
Nahuel Huapi National Park

Congratulations on a wonderful 60 years. So much has been done to keep the most beautiful parts of the British Isles safe from the excesses of mankind, yet giving access to all who care to discover them.
Maretta Jerrett

Congratulations on 60 years of keeping the wild places wild.  Good luck with the next 60 where things will always be changing. The people who live in National Parks will need your support to run sustainable, environment enhancing businesses so they can afford to look after your/their landscapes.
Sue Prince

Congratulations - truly a special event and a fine achievement for the nation. How forward-looking of our forefathers to create such a wonderful legacy. Let us make sure that we don't squander or corrupt their foresight and vision!
Mark Hambridge

Only 60 years young! Plenty of campaigning still to do, to keep the National Parks beautiful.
Anthony Kay

Isn't our countryside heritage just wonderful! And aren't our national parks a real blessing to us all - even the thought of a beautiful scene lifts me and encourages me.
David Fellgate Saunders

Happy Birthday to our fantastic national parks.
@EmperorHadrian

A big happy 60th Anniversary to @uknationalparks. Had some great times and memories of visiting your parks throughout the UK
@AllaboutBritain

Happy birthday to the @uknationalparks - created 60 years ago today!
@Brycheiniog

Happy 60th! I was lucky to live in the lovely Yorkshire Dales National Park for 15 yrs - treat yourselves to a visit.
@walkingbookscom

Happy Birthday - I spend my time in Yorkshire Dales. All the parks are well looked after and are the jewels of the UK.
@yorkshrphotohol

Your memories

This photo is circa 1960 when I was 11 was taken by my Dad on a wild, wet afternoon in July at Castell y Gwynt on the Glyders (Snowdonia National Park). Our family summer camps in Gwynant valley, at the start of the holidays were the highspot of the year.
Maretta Jerrett

The first time we came to the Peak District, from the Uttoxeter direction, through Thorpe - it felt like going through the back of the wardrobe! We entered a completely different world (like Narnia). The air was different, the colours were softer, more natural but brighter, sounds were softer and brighter. Buildings and spaces were respected - we just felt that it was a human place, a place to breathe.
Sue Prince

One Saturday in July 1987: running the Moel Siabod fell race, coming 5th out of 88, one of my most satisfying performances in a fell race.  Then cycling slowly back to my accommodation near Bethesda, the huge bulk of Tryfan dominating the view.
I couldn't resist it, I just had to park the bike (at about 5.30pm) and scramble up the ridge, down to the col below the Glyders and back round the side to pick up the bike, still with plenty of time to cycle down the Nant Ffrancon in daylight.
Anthony Kay

Climbing Catbells with my grandmother when I was about 9, now taking my own children the youngest of which is 10!
@Garden_Network

1st time to Burbage South. 1st outdoor bouldering trip. I'll never ever forget that beautiful approach. Jaw-dropping beauty. Loving the gritstone of the Peak District! One of my favourite places in the world.
@LukeMeadows

I have many memories...so many from Exmoor
@WhispersWW

Favourite memory of being in a UK National Park... The first time I tried Coasteering of course :)
@CQCoasteering

I love the New Forest and seeing the wild ponies roaming free. In the last five or six years I have been at least once a year.
Esme Ballard

Just love living in the New Forest, so glad its a National Park!
Tony Gray

I was born and bred in Dolgellau, loverly part of the world, miss it loads. Happy Anniversary Snowdonia National Park!
Sandy Savvy Watts

Being able to walk along Hadrians Wall... Beautiful.
Dale Anderson

Walking in the New Forest in autumn with my son kicking up leaves.
Amanda Brace

Walking over Sycamore Gap and thinking what on earth was Robin Hood doing up here!
Lynn Bridgett

Perhaps the North Yorkshire Moors in early morning September sun from the road. memories are for ever aren't they, my visit to the Lake District in Spring 2009 are amongst many favourite times visiting Cumbria.
David Fellgate Saunders

Swimming and kayaking in peaceful Wast Water as a young teenager; later, walking some of the paths such as Styhead and Black Sail passes; riding 't'laal ratty' from Ravenglass to Eskdale
Mark Hambridge