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The U.S. Congress specified in the 1970 General Authorities Act [39] and the 1978 Redwood Act [40] that all units of the National Park System are to be treated on equal status, regardless of title. [41] Pinnacles is the ninth unit in the National Park System in California to be named a national park. [42]
The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km 2).
Protected areas of the ecoregion include: American River Parkway, Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, Point Reyes National Seashore, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park, Pinnacles National Park, Folsom Lake State Recreation Area and Carrizo Plain National Monument.
Pinnacles National Park is one place where captive-bred California condors are released into the wild. “Wildlife being wildlife, I hate to guarantee that you're going to see anything in ...
Named a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park has about 25 active glaciers dispersed among its 1 million acres and is home to "Going-to-the-Sun Road," a 50-mile drive said to offer some of ...
Death Valley National Park, notorious for its below sea level desert, also has soaring mountains, including Telescope Peak, its highest. This is a list of United States National Parks by elevation. Most of America's national parks are located in mountainous areas. Even among those located close to the ocean, not all are flat.
Pinnacles National Park — located within the Gabilan Range, in eastern Monterey County and southern San Benito County, California. Pages in category "Pinnacles National Park" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
View west from the Gabilan Mountains, Pinnacles National Park. One of the last relatively undeveloped corridors for wildlife passage between the southern Santa Cruz Mountains and the northern Gabilan Range runs from lands between Mount Pajaro [13] and Rancho Juristac, in southern Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties respectively, south across California State Route 129 and U.S. Highway 101 to ...