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Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border. It covers an area of 340 km 2 (130 sq mi). [ 1 ] The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued, deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops , [ 2 ] especially the Brandwag rock. [ 3 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States. There are 36 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the park, two of which are National Historic Landmarks.
The Highlands Historic District in Grand Teton National Park is a former private inholding within the park boundary. The inholding began as a 1914 homestead belonging to Harry and Elizabeth Sensenbach, who began in the 1920s to supplement their income by catering to automobile-borne tourists.
The Golden Gate Highlands National Park with its sandstone formations and cliffs is 17 km from Clarens. Close to Clarens is the outlet from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project that brings fresh water from Lesotho to feed into the As River ( Afrikaans for "axle" because a wagon broke its axle when crossing, but has been mistakenly translated ...
The SRLC lands were added to Jackson Hole National Monument in 1949, and Grand Teton National Park absorbed the monument lands in 1950. During the 1930s the Park Service began to build visitor and administrative facilities in the original park lands. The park's first point of visitor contact was, for many years, at Jenny Lake.
The Golden Gate Highlands National Park includes parts of the northeastern end of the Maloti Range. Other parks in this high mountain area are the Sehlabathebe National Park in Lesotho and the uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park spanning parts of both KwaZulu-Natal province and Lesotho.
National Register of Historic Places in Grand Teton National Park (1 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Grand Teton National Park" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Grand Teton National Park is a national park of the United States in northwestern Wyoming.At approximately 310,000 acres (1,300 km 2), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole.