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Coffee Break: The Great Outdoors

What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images, via NPR

August 25, 2016

August 25 is National Park Service Day, and it's a special one this year as it's the 100th anniversary of the service.

Thanks to the National Park Service for a century of recreation, conservation, and historic preservation programs. Minnesota has six national parks: Voyageurs, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area, St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Pipestone National Monument, North Country National Scenic Trail and Grand Portage National Monument.

To celebrate 100 years of national parks, what songs do you want to hear that reference anything that you might find in the great outdoors for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

Songs played


A Forest - The Cure
Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
Mosquito - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
River Deep - Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Breaking the Yearlings - Shearwater
I Am A Tree - Guided By Voices
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie

Do you deserve a Coffee Break? We at Oake & Riley think you do, and we want to bring coffee and treats from Gigi's Cafe to your workplace. Let us know why you'd like a Coffee Break - or request your own idea for a future topic.