Ownerguide s - National Park Foundation
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TO AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS
Presented by the National Park Foundation
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Table of Contents
Introduction Map: Sections Overview Section 1 Section 1a Section 2 Section 2a Section 3 Section 4 Section 5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 Section 9 Section 10 Section 11 Section 12 Section 13 Section 14 Section 15 Section 16 Section 17 Section 18 Section 19 Section 19a
Section 20 Section 21 Section 22
Park Directory
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About the author: Kurt Repanshek has been covering national parks for more than three decades. Following a stint with The Associated Press, his freelance career has spawned guidebooks to the national parks and articles for Smithsonian, Audubon, National Wildlife, and many other publications. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of , a web-zine that provides daily coverage of the wonders of the National Park System.
Maps provided courtesy of the National Park Service. Design and layout by Mary Frances Craig, Miesha Dennis and Kirsten Ogren. Special thanks to Angela Hearn, Dan Puskar and Mark Shields for their contributions.
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"There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people."
?PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, 1936
IN 1872, America did something unprecedented proclaiming Yellowstone the world's first national park, setting aside more than one million acres of wilderness as a "public park", not for the privileged, but for the benefit and enjoyment of all people.
For more than 100 years American citizens have continued this work of transforming the great landscapes of our country and the important sites from our history into an extraordinary public treasure. Today, because of their vision and action, each of us is a shared owner in over 400 national park sites spanning 18 million acres and including high mountain peaks, deep valleys, sacred battlefields, celebrated monuments, picturesque seashores, extraordinary museum collections... and that is just the beginning! We are truly owners of the world's greatest collection of nature, history and culture.
Our parks remind us who we were with when we first saw bison, an eagle, or a bear cub in the wild. They share the stories of our past in the places where they happened and introduce us to larger than life figures from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr., to Sacagawea. They are the places that inspire us, refresh us, and connect us so proudly as Americans.
There is so much to discover in our national parks! Let this Owner's Guide be your first step on your next national park adventure.
GO PARKS!
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