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The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve was assembled in several stages; two parcels, comprising 3,100 acres (13 km 2), were purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1984. The intervening parcels were purchased in the 1990s by the State of California , the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District , [ 3 ] and the Metropolitan Water ...
The national parks set a visitation record in 2021, with more than 92 million visitors. [9] Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee has been the most-visited park since 1944, [10] and had almost 13 million visitors in 2022. [11]
Virginia - Tennessee - North Carolina - South Carolina: Pony Express National Historic Trail: Missouri - California: Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (official unit) Virginia - Maryland - Pennsylvania - Washington, D.C. 0.00 acres (0 km 2) Santa Fe National Historic Trail: Missouri - New Mexico: Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail ...
The California State Parks system alone has 270 units and covers 1.3 million acres (5,300 km 2), with over 280 miles (450 km) of coastline, 625 miles (1,006 km) of lake and river frontage, nearly 18,000 campsites, and 3,000 miles (5,000 km) of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails.
National Memorial (List of national memorials of the United States) 31 National Recreation Area: 18 National Seashore (List of United States national lakeshores and seashores) 10 National Lakeshore (List of United States national lakeshores and seashores) 3 National River: 14 National Reserve 2 National Parkway: 4 National Trail: 6 Other 11 ...
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.
The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the western part of the national monument and is one of the nation's first National Scenic Trails established by the National Trails System Act (Public Law 90-543). This segment of the trail is managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a 72,259-acre (292.42 km 2) wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert , above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular Range , between La Quinta to ...