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| x U.S. National Park Service |
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The National Park Service (NPS) is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. It was created on August 25, 1916, by Congress...
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| x National Park |
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National Parks in the United States are considered the premier classification of protected areas of the United States. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the world ￢ﾀﾔ in 1872, there was no state government to manage it, so the...
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| x Yellowstone National Park |
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Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress as a national park on March 1, 1872, is located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho. The park was the first of its kind, and is known for...
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| x Wrangler Lake |
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Wrangler Lake is a lake located in the less-traveled portion of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is fairly isolated, a few miles from the Wapiti Lake Trailhead.
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| x Union Falls |
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Union Falls is a waterfall in southwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. It is the second highest waterfall in Yellowstone at 265 feet exceeded in height only by the lower Yellowstone Falls. Access to the falls requires an eight...
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| x Tower Falls |
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Tower Fall is a waterfall in the northeastern region of Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. On Tower Creek, approximately 1000 yards upstream from the creek's confluence with the Yellowstone River, the fall drops 132 feet (40 m)...
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| x Lewis Falls |
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The Lewis Falls are located on the Lewis River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. The falls drop approximately 30 feet (9.1 m) and are easily seen from the road, approximately halfway between the south entrance to the park and...
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| x Isa Lake |
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Isa Lake is located in Yellowstone National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. The lake straddles the continental divide at Craig Pass and was first discovered in 1891 by Hiram M. Chittenden, who was exploring the best routes for a road to connect...
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| x Madison Museum |
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The Madison Museum is one of a series of "trailside museums" in Yellowstone National Park designed by architect Herbert Maier in a style that has become known as National Park Service Rustic. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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| x Northeast Entrance Station |
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The Northeast Entrance Station to Yellowstone National Park, in Park County, Montana, is a rustic log building that serves its purpose admirably. It was built in 1935.
As a pristine example of its type, and being an ambitious one for its time, it...
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| x Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums |
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The Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums is a conglomeration of three "trailside museums" within Yellowstone National Park which together make up one National Historic Landmark of the United States.
The three elements are the Norris Museum,...
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| x Roosevelt Lodge Historic District |
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The Roosevelt Lodge Historic District comprises the area around the Roosevelt Lodge in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, near Tower Junction. The district includes 143 buildings ranging in size from cabins to the Lodge, built beginning...
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| x Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District |
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The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District in Yellowstone National Park comprises the administrative center for the park. It is composed of two major parts: Fort Yellowstone, the military administrative center for the park in the years immediately...
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| x Old Faithful Historic District |
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The Old Faithful Historic District in Yellowstone National Park comprises the built-up portion of the Upper Geyser Basin surrounding the Old Faithful Inn and Old Faithful Geyser. It includes the Old Faithful Inn, designed by Robert Reamer and itself...
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| x Grand Loop Road Historic District |
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The Grand Loop Road Historic District encompasses the primary road system in Yellowstone National Park. Much of the 140-mile (230 km) system was originally planned by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the early days of...
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| x Kepler Cascades |
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Kepler Cascades is a waterfall on the Firehole River in southwestern Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The cascades are located approximately 2.5 miles south of Old Faithful. The cascades drop approximately 150 feet over multiple drops...
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| x Gardiner |
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Gardiner is a census-designated place (CDP) in Park County, Montana, United States. The population was 851 at the 2000 census.
Gardiner was officially founded in 1880, but the area has served as a main entrance to Yellowstone National Park since its...
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| x National Monument |
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A National Monument in the United States is a protected area or a historic site that is similar to a National Park except that the President of the United States can quickly declare an area of the United States to be a National Monument without the...
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| x National Seashore |
A National Seashore, in the United States, is a seashore area federally designated as being of natural and recreational significance as a preserved area.
There are 10 National Seashores with a total area of 479,054 acres (1,938.4 km²).
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National Parkway is a designation for a protected area in the United States. The designation is given to a scenic roadway and a protected corridor of surrounding parkland. National Parkways often connect cultural or historic sites.
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| x National preserve |
National Preserve is a designation applied by the United States Congress to protected areas that have characteristics normally associated with U.S. National Parks but where certain activities not allowed in National Parks are permitted. These...
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| x National Historical Park |
A National Historical Park is a category of park maintained by the U. S. Park Service and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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| x National Recreation Area |
National Recreation Area (NRA) is a designation for a protected area in the United States, often centered on large reservoirs and emphasizing water-based recreation for a large number of people. The first National Recreation Area was the Boulder Dam...
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| x National Memorial |
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National Memorial is a designation in the United States for a protected area, that memorializes a historic person or event. National memorials are authorized by the United States Congress and are automatically included in the National Register of...
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| x National Scenic Trail |
National Scenic Trail is a designation for protected areas in the United States that consist of trails of particular natural beauty.
National Scenic Trails were authorized under the National Trails System Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-543) along with...
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| x National Military Park |
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National Military Park, National Battlefield, National Battlefield Park, and National Battlefield Site are four designations for 24 battle sites preserved by the United States federal government because of their national importance.
There exist 11...
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| x Acadia National Park |
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Acadia National Park preserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast of Maine. Originally inhabited by the Wabanaki people, the area includes mountains, an ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes. In...
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| x National Park of American Samoa |
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The National Park of American Samoa is a national park on the American territory of American Samoa, distributed across three separate islands: Tutuila, Ofu-Olosega, and Ta‘ū. The park includes coral reefs and rain forest and is popular for hiking,...
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| x Arches National Park |
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Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
The park...
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| x Badlands National Park |
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Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 244,000 acres (98,740 ha) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.
The Badlands Wilderness...
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| x Big Bend National Park |
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Big Bend National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Texas. For more than 1,000 miles (1600 km), the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms the international boundary between Mexico and the United States, and Big Bend National Park...
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| x Biscayne National Park |
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Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States. Ninety-five percent of the park is water. In addition, the...
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| x Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park |
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a United States National Park located in western Colorado, and managed by the National Park Service. There are two entrances to the park; the more-developed south rim entrance is located 15 miles (24 km)...
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| x Bryce Canyon National Park |
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Bryce Canyon National Park (pronounced /ˈbraɪs/) is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite its name, this is not actually a canyon, but rather a giant natural...
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| x Canyonlands National Park |
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Canyonlands National Park is located in the American state of Utah, near the city of Moab and preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries....
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| x Capitol Reef National Park |
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Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. It is 100 miles (160 km) long but fairly narrow. The park, established in 1971, preserves 378 mi² (979 km²) and is open all year, although May through September are...
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| x Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park for most visitors is the show cave, Carlsbad Caverns. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their...
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| x Channel Islands National Park |
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Channel Islands National Park is a United States national park that consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of the U.S. state of California, in the Pacific Ocean. Although the islands are close to the shore of densely-populated...
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| x Congaree National Park |
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Congaree National Park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States. Located in South Carolina, the park is 22,000 acre (89 km²). The lush trees growing in this floodplain forest are some of the...
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| x Crater Lake National Park |
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Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in southern Oregon, whose primary feature is Crater Lake. This National Park was established on May 22, 1902, and it was the sixth National Park to be designated in the U.S. This...
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| x Cuyahoga Valley National Park |
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The 51-square-mile (130 km) park is the only national park in Ohio.
Cuyahoga means "crooked river" in...
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| x Death Valley National Park |
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Death Valley National Park is a mostly arid United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in southern Inyo County and northern San Bernardino County in California, with a small extension into southwestern Nye County...
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| x Denali National Park and Preserve |
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Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior Alaska and contains Mount McKinley (Denali), the tallest mountain in North America. The park and preserve together cover 9,492 mi² (24,585 km²).
The word "Denali" means "the great one" in the...
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| x Dry Tortugas National Park |
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Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. The park covers 101 mi² (262 km²), mostly water, about 68 statute miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is famous for abundant...
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| x Everglades National Park |
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Everglades National Park is a national park in the U.S. state of Florida. The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida. It is visited...
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| x Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve |
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Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is a U.S. National Park in Alaska. It is the northernmost national park in the U.S. (the entirety of the park lies north of the Arctic Circle) and the second largest at 13,238 mi² (39,460 km²), about...
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| x Glacier National Park |
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Glacier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Montana, bordering the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to the North and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the East. Glacier National Park contains two mountain ranges (sub...
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| x Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve |
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The area around Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. It was changed to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on Dec. 2, 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act....
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| x Grand Canyon National Park |
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Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world. The park...
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| x Grand Teton National Park |
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Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. The park is named after the Grand Teton, which, at 13,770 feet (4,197 m), is the tallest mountain in the Teton Range.
The...
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| x Great Basin National Park |
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Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park established in 1986, located in east-central Nevada near its border with Utah. The park derives its name from the Great Basin, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and...
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| x Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve |
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park located in the easternmost parts of Alamosa County and Saguache County, Colorado, United States. Originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Great Sand Dunes...
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| x Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The border between...
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| x Guadalupe Mountains National Park |
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet (2,667 m) in elevation. It also contains El Capitan, long used as a landmark by people...
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| x Haleakala National Park |
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Haleakalā National Park is a United States national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaiʻi. The park covers an area of 30,183 acres (122.15 km), of which 24,719 acres (100.03 km) is a wilderness area.
It was originally made part...
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| x Hawaii Volcanoes National Park |
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, is a United States National Park located in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi on the island of Hawaiʻi. It displays the results of hundreds of thousands of years of volcanism, migration, and evolution...
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