If you’re a rock climber, you can hang upside down on Yosemite National Park on 4,000-foot cliffs.
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National Park Service Celebrates CentennialNational parks across the country are offering free admission, birthday cake, ranger talks and other special events to mark the 100th birthday of the National Park Service.News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald has more on the celebration.
The park service has also launched a campaign called find your park with the goal to help people find their own national parks and discover the outdoors.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun”, she said. “We would love for the community to come out”.
Will you visit a national park in the US this year?
As a lifelong resident of Downtown Brooklyn, I sauntered down to Brooklyn Bridge Park for the event in the afternoon and stayed there until it finished at 10 p.m. And Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky has more than 400 miles of mapped cave areas for visitor enjoyment.
However, before you pack your auto – and kids – up, know this: while the trip will take travelers from ME to California, and through 23 different states, according to The Washington Post, the 14,498 mile “national park trip” will take approximately two months to drive. The National Parks Service has launched a new app in celebration of their 100th birthday.
“We want to be sure that not only are we protecting Yellowstone, but visitors are having a great experience and gain a great knowledge of Yellowstone National Park”, Wenk says.
The National Park Service Organic Act was signed into law on August 25, 1916 as an agency of the United States Department of the Interior.
This photo provided by the National Park Service shows people on the National Mall in Washington, looking toward the World War II Memorial, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, creating a giant, living version of the National Park Service emblem.
It’s not just the number of protected areas that has changed.
But the park actually dates back to Colonial times when an Army fort operated on the northern tip of its 7-mile peninsula. Today things are different, Langianese said.
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One hundred years later, the organization manages almost 34 million hectares of land.
