US National Parks
Dates in parentheses indicate when the area was first designated a park, in most cases under a different name. Web site: <www.nps.gov/parks.html>.
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PARK |
LOCATION |
DESIGNATION DATE |
SQ MI |
SQ KM |
|
Acadia |
Bar Harbor ME |
1929 (1916) |
74 |
192 |
|
American Samoa |
American Samoa |
1993 (1988) |
14 |
36 |
|
Arches |
Moab UT |
1971 (1929) |
120 |
311 |
|
Badlands |
southwestern South Dakota |
1978 (1939) |
379 |
982 |
|
Big Bend |
curve of the Rio Grande river, Texas |
1944 |
1,252 |
3,243 |
|
Biscayne |
near Miami FL |
1980 (1968) |
270 |
699 |
|
Black Canyon of the |
near Montrose CO |
1999 (1933) |
43 |
112 |
|
Gunnison |
|
|
|
|
|
Bryce Canyon |
Bryce Canyon, Utah |
1928 (1923) |
56 |
145 |
|
Canyonlands |
near Moab UT |
1964 |
527 |
1,366 |
|
Capitol Reef |
near Torrey UT |
1971 (1937) |
379 |
982 |
|
Carlsbad Caverns |
near Carlsbad NM |
1930 (1923) |
73 |
189 |
|
Channel Islands |
Ventura CA |
1980 (1938) |
75 |
194 |
|
Congaree |
Hopkins SC |
2003 |
34 |
88 |
|
Crater Lake |
Crater Lake OR |
1902 |
286 |
741 |
|
Cuyahoga Valley |
near Cleveland and Akron OH |
2000 (1974) |
51 |
133 |
|
Death Valley |
Death Valley, California |
1994 (1933) |
5,219 |
13,518 |
|
Denali |
central Alaska |
1980 (1917) |
9,492 |
24,584 |
|
Dry Tortugas |
Key West FL |
1992 (1935) |
101 |
262 |
|
Everglades |
southern Florida |
1947 |
2,358 |
6,107 |
|
Gates of the Arctic |
Bettles AK |
1980 (1978) |
13,238 |
34,287 |
|
Glacier |
northwest Montana |
1910 |
1,584 |
4,102 |
|
Glacier Bay |
Gustavus AK |
1980 (1925) |
5,130 |
13,287 |
|
Grand Canyon |
Grand Canyon, Arizona |
1919 (1908) |
1,902 |
4,927 |
|
Grand Teton |
Moose WY |
1950 (1929) |
484 |
1,255 |
|
Great Basin |
near Baker NV |
1986 (1922) |
121 |
313 |
|
Great Sand Dunes |
Mosca CO |
2000 (1932) |
132 |
343 |
|
Great Smoky Mountains |
Tennessee and North Carolina |
1934 |
815 |
2,110 |
|
Guadalupe Mountains |
Salt Flat TX |
1972 |
135 |
350 |
|
Haleakala |
Kula, Maui HI |
1960 (1916) |
47 |
121 |
|
Hawaii Volcanoes |
near Hilo HI |
1961 (1916) |
328 |
849 |
|
Hot Springs |
Hot Springs AR |
1921 (1832) |
9 |
22 |
|
Isle Royale |
Houghton MI |
1940 (1931) |
893 |
2,314 |
|
Joshua Tree |
near Palm Springs CA |
1994 (1936) |
1,591 |
4,120 |
|
Katmai |
near King Salmon AK |
1980 (1918) |
7,385 |
19,128 |
|
Kenai Fjords |
Seward AK |
1980 (1978) |
1,047 |
2,711 |
|
Kobuk Valley |
Kotzebue AK |
1980 (1978) |
2,672 |
6,920 |
|
Lake Clark |
Port Alsworth AK |
1980 (1978) |
6,297 |
16,309 |
|
Lassen Volcanic |
Mineral CA |
1916 (1907) |
166 |
430 |
|
Mammoth Cave |
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky |
1941 |
83 |
214 |
|
Mesa Verde |
near Cortez and Mancos CO |
1906 |
81 |
211 |
|
Mount Rainier |
nearAshford WA |
1899 |
368 |
954 |
|
North Cascades |
near Marblemount WA |
1968 |
1,069 |
2,769 |
|
Olympic |
near Port Angeles WA |
1938 |
1,442 |
3,734 |
1 Key: A, arch; B, buttress; E, earth fill; G, gravity; M, multi-arch; R, rock fill. N/A indicates “not available.” 1Vaiont Dam was the scene of a massive landslide and flood in 1963 and no longer operates. 2Diversion tunnels closed and reservoir filling begun December 2002. 3Near Fort McMurray AB. 4Most of this reservoir is a natural lake.
US National Parks
|
PARK |
LOCATION |
DESIGNATION DATE |
SQ MI |
SQ KM |
|
Petrified Forest |
Arizona |
1962 (1906) |
146 |
379 |
|
Redwood |
Crescent City CA |
1994 |
172 |
445 |
|
Rocky Mountain |
near Estes Park and Grand |
1915 |
415 |
1,076 |
|
|
Lake CO |
|
|
|
|
Saguaro |
Tucson AZ |
1994 (1933) |
143 |
370 |
|
Sequoia & Kings Canyon |
near Three Rivers CA |
1940 (1890) |
1,351 |
3,498 |
|
Shenandoah |
near Luray VA |
1935 |
311 |
805 |
|
Theodore Roosevelt |
Medora ND (south unit); near |
1978 (1947) |
110 |
285 |
|
|
Watford City ND (north unit) |
|
|
|
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Virgin Islands |
St. John, US Virgin Islands |
1956 |
23 |
59 |
|
Voyageurs |
International Falls MN |
1975 |
341 |
883 |
|
Wind Cave |
near Hot Springs SD |
1903 |
44 |
115 |
|
Wolf Trap |
Vienna VA |
2002 (1966) |
130 acres |
|
|
Wrangell-St. Elias |
near Copper Center AK |
1980 |
20,587 |
53,320 |
|
Yellowstone |
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming |
1872 |
3,468 |
8,983 |
|
Yosemite |
in the Sierra Nevada, California |
1890 (1864) |
1,189 |
3,081 |
|
Zion |
Springdale UT |
1919 (1909) |
229 |
593 |
On 13 May 1864, a Confederate prisoner who died in a local hospital became the _ first soldier laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Dead from every war in which the US has participated have since been buried there. More than 300,000 I m people are interred at Arlington, and the Fields of the Dead, with their seemingly KnOWfl endless lines of plain stones, follow a pattern adopted in 1872 for use in all national cemeteries.
