As a part of the National Parks Service 100th birthday, Williamson County celebrated its own piece of the park system, the Natchez Trace Parkway.
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Thursday marks the the National Park Service’s 100th birthday.
In celebration of the centennial of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service, both of which were created in 1916, admission to Acadia is free this weekend.
(Marc Adamus/The Register-Guard via AP, File)., FILE – In this January 2006, file photo, the sun rises over Crater Lake, Ore., in Crater Lake National Park. The sequoia tree and bison represent vegetation and wildlife.
The closest national parks to Houston are the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas (about a nine-hour drive) and Big Bend along the Rio Grande (eight and a half hours away).
The park service is also celebrating with a massive social media campaign encouraging people to get out to the parks. The 87,500 acre area, which was donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, will now be taken care of by the National Park Service. Those areas include national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails.
At the other end of the park, a portion of the road leading to Yellowstone’s South Entrance remained closed because of a wildfire.
The park is also in the midst of the superintendent’s “Hike 100 Challenge”, which encourages visitors to hike 100 miles in the Smokies in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial this year. Taylor tells 47 ABC, “It’s not just places like Assateague Island National seashore but there are places like the National Mall and Edgar Allen Poes home and the Grand Canyon and working farms and anything that you can think of that is unique is probably protected by the National Park service”.
Will you visit a national park in the US this year? You sure do look good for your age.
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