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The logo of the National Park Service. The Official Units of the National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. As of August 2024, there are 433 official units of the National Park System; [1] however, this number can be misleading.
Name Location Year established Area (2024) [3] [4] Acres km 2; Acadia National Park: Maine: 1919 49,076.65 198.6062 National Park of American Samoa: American Samoa
The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area is sometimes abbreviated as MNRRA (often pronounced like "minn-ruh") or MISS, the four-letter code the National Park Service assigned to the area. The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area is classified as one of four national rivers in the United States, and despite its name is ...
[4] A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890.
Yellowstone National Park in the United States was the first national park in the world. [1] [2] This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nearly 100 countries around the world have lands classified as a national park by this definition.
The National Park Service investigated the potential of a national park or national seashore recreation area on California's Lost Coast. [51] Part of the area is now protected by the Bureau of Land Management in the King Range National Conservation Area. Study of a National Seashore Recreation Area: Mobile-Tensaw Delta National Park Alabama 2013
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...
National Park Service; Peakbagger; www.climb.mountains.com These two external lists may not necessarily agree 100% with Wikipedia's list, but serve as useful comparisons. The primary difference is that these lists do not include associated national preserves. Postholer Maps; contains clear, zoomable topographic maps of the entire USA.