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Olympic National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the far northwestern part of the state known as the Olympic Peninsula. The park can be divided into three basic regions: the Pacific coastline, the Olympic mountains, and the temperate rainforest. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt originally created Olympic National Monument in 1909 and after Congress voted to authorize a redesignation to National Park status, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the legislation in 1938. In 1976, Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve, and in 1981 it was designated a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated as the Olympic Wilderness, further enhancing the protection of the region. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²) - Width 240 miles (385 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 6. ...
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The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ...
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...
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Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 km²) - Width 240 miles (385 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 6. ...
The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. ...
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Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), often referred to as FDR, was the 32nd (1933–1945) President of the United States. ...
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Olympic Wilderness is a 3548 square km protected area comprising over 95% of Olympic National Park in Washington State. ...
Coastline Olympic's coastal strip is a rugged, often fog-enshrouded stretch of sandy beach and a small area of adjacent forest. It is 73 miles long (just a few wide), interrupted only twice at the mouths of principal rivers, each with resident native communities. The Hoh are on the Hoh River and the Quileute live in the town of La Push at the mouth of the Quileute River. The Hoh are a branch of the Quileute. Unbroken stretches of wilderness range from 10 to 20 miles, but often seem much farther removed from the familiar. Hoh is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. ...
The Hoh River is located in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, U.S.A. It rises in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park and drains into the Pacific Ocean. ...
Quileute is a group of Native American peoples from western Washington state in the United States. ...
La Push is a small unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington. ...
The Quileute River is a river in Washington. ...
While some beaches are luxurious sand, others are covered with difficult heavy rock and giant boulders. Brush, overgrowth, slippery footing, tides and rain forest weather all act to limit speed, even for strong hikers. Travel-time estimates should be doubled. It is notable that though the coastal strip is readily accessed (unlike the interior Olympics), there are typically very few folks beyond casual day-hiking distances. It is much more difficult terrain than it would seem.
The most popular piece of the coast is the 9-mile Ozette Loop. The Park must run a registration and reservation program to control usage levels. From the trailhead at Lake Ozette, one 3-mile leg of the trail is a boardwalk-enhanced path through near-primal coastal western redcedar-swamp. Once on the ocean, it is a 3-mile walk along choice aboriginal beach-habitat, with some headland trails to cross at high tides (no resident natives - an inactive branch of the Makah people of Neah Bay, not far to the north). The third 3-mile leg of boardwalk-enhanced path would be brutally impossible for most people without the elevate walkways. It is the boardwalks, and the select, benevolent beach-walk that make Ozette so popular. ImageMetadata File history File links HurricaneRidge_7392t. ...
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Species Thuja plicata Western Redcedar, Thuja plicata, a species of thuja, is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the northwestern US and southwestern Canada, from southern Alaska and British Columbia south to northwest California and inland to western Montana. ...
A Makah woman. ...
Neah Bay is a census-designated place located in Clallam County, Washington. ...
There are thick groves of trees that march right up to the sand, which results in chunks of timber from fallen trees that litter the beach. The legendary Hoh River, toward the south end of the Strip, is substantially wild and discharges large amounts of naturally eroded timber and other drift, which then tends to move north, enriching the beaches. The removal of driftwood - logs, dead-heads, tops and root-wads from streams and beaches was a major domestication measure across North America: natural driftwood deposits form a commanding presence, biologically as well as visually, and the Strip gives a taste of the original condition ... but early beach-photos show astounding accumulations. Drift-material often comes from a considerable distance - the Columbia River formerly contributed huge amounts to the Northwest Pacific coasts. A piece of waterlogged driftwood Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a shore or beach by the action of the waves. ...
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The Columbia River (French: fleuve Columbia) is a river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. ...
Interestingly, the small coastal portion of Olympic isn't even connected to the much larger, main portion of the park. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had intended for them to be connected via a continuous strip of park land, but political forces decided otherwise. FDR redirects here. ...
A view of the summit of west peak of Mount Olympus from the Blue Glacier. ...
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Glaciated mountains Within the center of Olympic National Park rise the Olympic Mountains whose sides and ridgelines are topped with massive, ancient glaciers. The mountains themselves are products of accretionary wedge uplifting related to the Juan De Fuca Plate subduction zone. The geologic composition is a curious mélange of basaltic and oceanic sedimentary rock. The western half of the range is dominated by the peak of Mount Olympus, which rises to 7965 feet (2,428 m). Mount Olympus receives a large amount of snow, and consequently has the greatest glaciation of any non-volcanic peak in the contiguous United States outside of the North Cascades. It has several glaciers, the largest of which is the Hoh glacier, nearly five kilometers in length. Looking to the East, the range becomes much drier due to the rain shadow of the western mountains. Here, there are numerous high peaks and craggy ridges. The tallest summit of this area is Mount Deception, at 7,788 feet. The Olympic Mountains The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. ...
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At 7788 feet above sea level, Mount Deception is the tallest peak of the northeastern Olympic Mountains, in western Washington States Olympic National Park. ...
Temperate rainforest
 Moss draped Bigleaf Maple near the Hoh River. The western side of the park sports a temperate rain forest, including the Hoh Rain Forest and Quinault Rain Forest, the wettest area in the continental United States (the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii gets more rain). Because this is a temperate rainforest, as opposed to a tropical one like the Amazon Rainforest in South America, it isn't dominated by tropical ferns, but rather contains dense timber, including spruce and fir, and mosses that coat the bark of these trees and even drip down from their branches in green, moist tendrils. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 317 KB) Summary Hoh Rain Forest Description: Mosses festoon Bigleaf Maple trunks. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 317 KB) Summary Hoh Rain Forest Description: Mosses festoon Bigleaf Maple trunks. ...
A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ...
Moss draped Bigleaf Maple near the Hoh River. ...
The Quinault Rain Forest is a temperate rain forest in the U.S. state of Washington in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault. ...
Kauaʻi (usually spelled Kauai outside the Hawaiian Islands and pronounced kawa-ee) is the oldest and fourth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands, having an area of 1,430. ...
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CoopersBold textBold textBold textItalic text Psilotopsida Equisetopsida Marattiopsida Pteridopsida (Polypodiopsida) A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. ...
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Subclasses Sphagnidae Andreaeidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Archidiidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. ...
Natural history Because the park sits on an isolated peninsula, with a high mountain range dividing it from the land to the south, it developed many unique plant and animal species (like the Olympic Marmot) that can't be found anywhere else in the world. The southwestern coastline of the Olympic Peninsula is also the northernmost non-glaciated region on the Pacific coast of North America, with the result that - aided by the distance from peaks to the coast at the LGM being about twice what it is today - it served as a refuge from which plants colonized glaciated regions to the north. The species marmota olympus is a member of the genus marmota, in the rodent family Sciuridae (squirrels). ...
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It also provides habitat for many species (like the Roosevelt elk) that are native only to the Pacific Northwest coast. Because of this importance, scientists have declared it to be a Biological Reserve, and study its unique species to better understand how plants and animals evolve. A good book about the natural history of the region is Olympic National Park: A Natural History Guide by Tim McNulty. Roosevelt Elk (cervus canadensis roosevelti) are also know as Olympic elk tend to live in the rain forests of the Pacific coast. ...
Human history Prior to the influx of European settlers, Olympic's human population consisted of Native Americans, whose use of the peninsula consisted mainly of fishing and hunting. However, recent reviews of the record, coupled with systematic archaeological surveys of the mountains (Olympic and other Northwest ranges) are pointing to much more extensive tribal use of especially the subalpine meadows than seemed formerly to be the case. Most if not all Pacific Northwest indigenous cultures were more or less severely adversely affected by European diseases (often decimated) and other factors, well before ethnographers, business operations and settlers arrived in the region, so what they saw and recorded was a much-reduced native culture-base. Large numbers of cultural sites are now identified in the Olympic mountains, and important artifacts have been found. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 379 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Olympic National Park...
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When settlers began to appear, extractive industry in the Pacific Northwest was on the rise, particularly in regards to the harvesting of timber, which began heavily in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Public dissent against logging began to take hold in the 1920s, when people got their first glimpses of the clear-cut hillsides. This period saw an explosion of people's interest in the outdoors; with the growing use of the automobile, people took to touring previously remote places like the Olympic Peninsula. The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the United States. ...
Timber in storage for later processing at a sawmill Timber is a term used to describe wood, either standing or that has been processed for use—from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction or wood...
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The formal record of a proposal for a new national park on the Olympic Peninsula begins with the expeditions of well-known figures Lieutenant Joseph O'Neil and Judge James Wickersham, during the 1890s. These notables met in the Olympic wilderness while exploring, and subsequently combined their political efforts to have the area placed within some protected status. Following unsuccessful efforts in the Washington State Legislature in the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt created Mount Olympus National Monument in 1909, primarily to protect the subalpine calving grounds and summer range of the Roosevelt elk herds native to the Olympics. Roosevelt Elk (cervus canadensis roosevelti) are also know as Olympic elk tend to live in the rain forests of the Pacific coast. ...
Public desire for preservation of some of the area grew until President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared ONP a national park in 1938. Even after ONP was declared a park, though, illegal logging continued in the park, and political battles continue to this day over the incredibly valuable timber contained within its boundaries. Logging continues on the Olympic Peninsula, but not within the park. A book detailing the history of the fight for ONP's timber is Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation by Carsten Lien. FDR redirects here. ...
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Recreation
A short hike leads to Sol Duc Falls. There are several roads in the park, but none penetrate far into the interior. The park features a network of hiking trails, although the size and remoteness means that it will usually take more than a weekend to get to the high country in the interior. The sights of the rain forest, with plants run riot and dozens of hues of green, are well worth the possibility of rain sometime during the trip, although months of July, August and September frequently have long dry spells. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 1727 KB) Sol Duc Falls, Olympic National Park, Washington. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2816x2112, 1727 KB) Sol Duc Falls, Olympic National Park, Washington. ...
A nearly unique feature of ONP is the opportunity for backpacking along the beach. The length of the coastline in the park is sufficient for multi-day trips, with the entire day spent walking along the beach. Although idyllic compared to toiling up a mountainside (Seven Lakes Basin is a notable example), one must be aware of the tide; at the narrowest parts of the beaches, high tide washes up to the cliffs behind, blocking passage. There are also several promontories that must be struggled over, using a combination of muddy steep trail and fixed ropes.
During winter, the popular viewpoint known as Hurricane Ridge offers alpine and Nordic skiing opportunities. The Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club operates a not for profit alpine ski area which offers ski lessons, rentals, and inexpensive lift tickets. The small alpine area is serviced by two rope tows and one poma lift. Backcountry skiers often make their way down to the main Hurricane Ridge Road in order to hitchhike their way back to the top. A view of Hurricane Ridge in the fall taken near the visitor center. ...
A ski tow, also called rope tow, is a mechanised system for pulling skiers uphill. ...
A platter lift, or just platter, is a mechanised system for pulling skiers uphill. ...
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Acadia National Park preserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast of Maine. ...
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Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations. ...
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Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. ...
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Big Bend National Park is a national park located in Texas, USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1600 km) the Rio Grande / RÃo Bravo forms the international boundary between Mexico and the United States; Big Bend National Park administers approximately one-quarter of that boundary. ...
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Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead, FL. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States. ...
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Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. ...
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Canyonlands National Park, located near Moab, Utah and the Arches National Park, was designated as a National Park on September 12, 1964. ...
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Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. ...
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park located in the Guadalupe Mountains of the southeastern corner of New Mexico (Eddy County). ...
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The Channel Islands National Park is a 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. ...
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Located in South Carolina, the 34 mi² (89 km²) Congaree National Park is the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States but one of the smallest national parks. ...
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Crater Lake National Park is the U.S.s fifth oldest[1] National Park whose most famous feature is Crater Lake. ...
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Brandywine Falls Cuyahoga Valley National Park preserves the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in northeast Ohio. ...
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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 Inyo County, California with a small extension and exclave (Devils Hole) in Nye County, Nevada. ...
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Denali National Park and Preserve is located in Interior Alaska and contains Mt. ...
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Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. ...
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Everglades National Park preserves the southern portion of the Everglades (all south of Tamiami Trail), but represents only 20 % of the original wetland area. ...
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}} Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is one of several large U.S. National Parks in Alaska. ...
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The area around Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. ...
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Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. ...
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Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. ...
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Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park, located in east-central Nevada near its border with Utah. ...
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve became a United States National Park by an act of Congress on September 13, 2004. ...
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Cades Cove panorama The 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. ...
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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. ...
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HaleakalÄ National Park is a United States national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii. ...
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Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, displays the results of 30 million years of volcanism, migration, and evolution—processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture. ...
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Established from Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs National Park is a United States National Park in central Arkansas adjacent to the city of Hot Springs. ...
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Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. ...
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A Joshua tree silhouetted by a rock Joshua Tree National Park is located in south-eastern California. ...
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Katmai National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park in Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. ...
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Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Kenai Fjords National Park is a United States National Park on the Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska near the town of Seward. ...
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This article is about Kings Canyon National Park, USA. For Kings Canyon, Australia, see Kings Canyon (Northern Territory). ...
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Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Kobuk Valley National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Alaska north of the Arctic Circle. ...
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Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park in southwestern Alaska. ...
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Map of Lassen area showing hydrothermal features (red dots) and volcanic feature or remnant (yellow cones). ...
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Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the most extensive cave system known in the world. ...
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Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. ...
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Mount Rainier National Park is a United States National Park located in southeast Pierce County, Washington. ...
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Looking toward Magic Mountain from the Cascade Pass trail North Cascades National Park is a U.S. National Park located in Washington state. ...
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Petrified Forest National Park is located in northeastern Arizona, along Interstate 40 between Holbrook and Navajo. ...
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Established in 1968 from unprotected land as well as small portions of existing state parks, Redwood National Park is a United States National Park on the northern coast of California between Eureka and Crescent City. ...
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Rocky Mountain National Park is located in the north central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. ...
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Entrance to the Visitors Center, Saguaro National Park, West. ...
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Crescent Meadow in the Giant Forest, called by John Muir the Gem of the Sierras Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia, California in the United States of America. ...
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Shenandoah National Park encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Piedmont region of Virginia. ...
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Established in 1978, Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a United States National Park comprising three geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota. ...
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Established in 1975, Voyageurs National Park is a United States National Park in northern Minnesota near the town of International Falls. ...
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Wind Cave National Park is a United States national park 10 miles (18 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. ...
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Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Wrangell-St. ...
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Yellowstone National Park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest intact ecosystem in the Earths northern temperate zone. ...
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Yosemite National Park (pronounced Yo-SEM-it-ee, IPA: ) is a national park located largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties, California, United States. ...
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Zion Canyon as seen from the top of Angels Landing at sunset Zion National Park is a United States National Park located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. ...
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Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...
Cahokia is the site of an ancient Native American city near Collinsville, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. ...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a United States National Park located in the Guadalupe Mountains of the southeastern corner of New Mexico (Eddy County). ...
Kiva at Pueblo Del Arroyo Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park and World Heritage Site which contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of large pueblos in the American Southwest. ...
Everglades National Park preserves the southern portion of the Everglades (all south of Tamiami Trail), but represents only 20 % of the original wetland area. ...
Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. ...
Cades Cove panorama The 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. ...
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, displays the results of hundreds of thousands of years of volcanism, migration, and evolution—processes that thrust a bare land from the sea and clothed it with complex and unique ecosystems and a distinct human culture. ...
Independence Hall is a U.S. national landmark located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets. ...
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La Fortaleza (or The Fortress in English) is the current residence of the Governor of Puerto Rico. ...
San Juan National Historic Site in San Juan, Puerto Rico includes colonial-era forts, bastions, powder houses, and three fourths of the old city wall. ...
Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the most extensive cave system known in the world. ...
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. ...
Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. ...
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Taos Pueblo, circa 1920 Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos), continuously inhabited for over 1000 years, is the ancient town of the Northern Tiwa speaking tribe of Pueblo people, Native Americans. ...
The Coastal redwood is the tallest tree species on Earth. ...
Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté), is a colossal statue given to the United States by France in 1886, standing at Liberty Island, New Jersey in the mouth of the Hudson River in New...
The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is the name of the union of the Glacier National Park in the United States and the Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada. ...
Yellowstone National Park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest intact ecosystem in the Earths northern temperate zone. ...
Yosemite National Park (pronounced Yo-SEM-it-ee, IPA: ) is a national park located largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties, California, United States. ...
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