The park was created in October 1949 to protect a small area along the banks of the Mississippi River where Native Americans built earthen mounds for millennia.
Published Sep 11, 2005
The most striking feature is Roosevelt Lake, an artificial lake created by the construction of Roosevelt Dam across the Salt River. The National Monument is surrounded by the Tonto National Forest, which includes low plains, desert scrubland, and alpine pine forests.
Published Sep 4, 2005
The park encompasses about 37,000 hectares of the Sonora Desert.
Published Jul 24, 2005
Situated in Utah, the park is home to 2,000 arches and windows in rock, as well as rock spires and pinnacles.
Published May 8, 2005
Archaeological evidence indicates that American Indians living in the area began exploring the cave system in the late Archaic period, between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. European settlers first found the caves in 1798.
Published May 1, 2005
The paleontologist Eric Douglass made the first discoveries here in 1909, and President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national monument in 1915.
Published Apr 3, 2005
It one of the oldest parks in the United States, created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Published Jan 23, 2005
The park runs roughly 40 miles along the Delaware River and the Appalachian Mountains, which are immediately adjacent to the river.
Published Jan 9, 2005
The first recorded charting of the area was done in 1794 by George Vancouver, in which he showed the bay being a small indentation in the Icy Strait with a gigantic glacier stretching off to the horizon.
Published Dec 7, 2003
The park stretches through the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
Published Sep 8, 2003
Crater Lake, a volcanic caldera in South Central Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, boasts breathtaking scenery, created about 7,700 years ago with the volcanic eruption and subsequent collapse of the summit of Mt. Mazama.
Published Jan 26, 2003
