We talk about all our favorites from the Harbor Islands, to Lowell National Historical Park, to the Boston African American National Historic Site.
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More than 1,000 children and adults used brown, green and white umbrellas to create a living version of the Park Service emblem on the National Mall, which the agency photographed from a helicopter above.
Google is no different, devoting its Google Doodle on Thursday to the parks and its watershed moment of existence.
Park entrance fees will be waived nationwide from through Sunday for the celebration. He declared that the National Park Service would be “responsible for preserving our nation’s inheritance”.
Thursday is the actual centennial marking the day in 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson signed an act creating the National Park Service to protect the 35 national parks and monuments in existence at the time.
There will also be a free raffle with National Park Service Centennial Prizes!
For those of you homebound, Google has created a pretty incredible virtual tour of five national parks: Kenai Fjords National Park, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, and Dry Tortugas National Park (check out the below embedded video).
As the national parks system attracts greater numbers of visitors each year, the agency is facing key challenges ahead.
Today is the 100th birthday of the National Park Service.
In this handout provided by NASA from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite shows the drought-fueled Rim fire burning on August 23, 2013 near Yosemite National Park, California. “But I realized that I probably had the chance of still being in the park service when I was going to be able to celebrate the 100th”, he said. “We have to work a little harder”. U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tennesee), U.S. Rep. Phil Roe (Tennessee), U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross (New Jersey), Superintendent Cassius Cash, and Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Chairman, Leon Downey spoke to more than 400 park employees, partners, and local tourism officials.
Here in Nebraska the parks have several facilities available for visitors.
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“Mesa Verde was always a special place for me”, he said.
