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The Seal of the state of Alaska: 1959 Motto "North to the future" 1967 Flora. Type Symbol Year Image Flower: Forget-me-not: 1917 Tree: Sitka spruce: 1962 Fauna.
The State Park system began in 1970 with the creation of Denali State Park, Chugach State Park and Kachemak Bay State Park, three of the largest and still most popular parks in the state system. Wood-Tikchik State Park is the largest state park in the United States, comprising some 15% of total state park land in the nation. The division ...
State parks and other state sites within the U.S. state of Alaska. Pages in category "State parks of Alaska" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. [1] Kachemak Bay State Park was the first legislatively designated state park in the Alaska State Parks system. Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is the state's only legislatively designated ...
Wood-Tikchik State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Alaska north of Dillingham.Over 1,600,000 acres (650,000 ha) (6,500 km 2) in area—about the size of the state of Delaware—, comprising more than half of all state park land in Alaska and 15% of the total state park land in the country.
Chilkat State Park is a 9,837-acre (3,980 ha) Alaska state park on a peninsula south of the town of Haines, Alaska between the Chilkat and Chilkoot inlets. Remote and known for the steep 14% grade gravel access road, the park offers campsites with minimal amenities and is open to fishing, hiking, boating, sea kayaking, and sightseeing.
Semper Paratus is the title of the song and is also the U.S. Coast Guard's official motto.The precise origin of the phrase is obscure, although the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office notes the first use was by the New Orleans Bee newspaper in 1836, in reference to the actions of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service during the Ingham incident.
The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala.Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in the following years.