L.Bine has partnered with the National Park Foundation to help you find your happy place.

And with more than 400 national parks, there's a good chance you'll find one close to home.

Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. Who doesn't love a majestic National Park lodge?

Splendid craftsmanship on a grand scale surrounded by the wonders of nature?

In my mind, mind, there's really no better way to explore a national park in style.

Some of these lodges are full of just as many stories and secrets

as the park that surrounds them. I'm Jason Epperson and on this episode of

America's National Parks, Yosemite's Awani Hotel and its service in World War II. Here's Abigail Trebew. So, the David and Jenny Curry were Indiana school teachers who traveled extensively in their summers off.

In 1899, they arrived in California to see the beauties of Yosemite National Park.

The couple had previously given camping tours to other teachers in Yellowstone and decided

they would do the same in Yosemite

Valley to offset some of their vacation costs. The Curries brought with them a

cook, seven tents, and their three children.

Despite the two-week round-trip travel period

from the nearest town, the camp registered

292 guests its first year. Camp Curry, as it became known, was a hit. The Curry's

were adept at promotion and revived in old tradition started by James McCauley on the 4th of July

1872. At sunset piles of burning logs were pushed off Glacier Point

creating what was known as the Firefall.

David Curry died in 1917 and left the management of the Curry Company to his widow Jenny. Meanwhile, the National Park Service's first director Stephen Mather had his eyes set on a grand

hotel experience in the Yosemite Valley.

In 1915, he convinced a man named D.J. Desmond to convert old

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