The park service’s Instagram account has also captured more than 260,000 followers with awe-inspiring shots of the national parks.
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“We have been celebrating all year so it feels good to finally reach the date that has been circled on so many of our calendars”.
Teodorski says logging would have taken away South Carolina’s only national park.
Members of the ME delegation, as well as park leaders, will be in attendance.
But it was not until August of 1916, 100 years ago Thursday, that the National Park Service was created to protect America’s natural wonders. Mather, who became the agency’s first director, believed that “the whole goal of Congress in creating the national park system was that the American people might enjoy them and benefit by them forever”.
“If we do not, then in the words of my predecessor, Director Stephen Mather, we may lose them to selfish interests who call for our parks and public lands to be developed for short-term private gain”, Jarvis said.
The newest addition is the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in ME, which President Obama designated on Wednesday.
Yellowstone, Wyoming, became the first official national park in 1872, and more followed throughout Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.
If you do get the chance to visit the splendor of Yosemite National Park though, the majority of tourists never venture beyond Yosemite Valley, so we encourage you explore some its wild back country and Tuolumne Meadows.
Spanning eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, the Great Smokies are visited by more than 10 million people each year, making it the most-visited national park in the country, according to National Geographic.
Park entrance fees will be waived nationwide from through Sunday for the celebration. Have you been to any of the one’s we mentioned? The topic seemed so vast that it felt disingenuous to only focus on a few places, but it would be way too hard to doodle all 59 national parks! He declared that the National Park Service would be “responsible for preserving our nation’s inheritance”.
John Muir said, “Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike”.
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This article was corrected on Friday, Aug. 26 to clarify that Mesa Verde National Park was created as a park, and not a monument.
