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Birthday Wishes for Shenandoah National Park
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Birthday Wishes for Shenandoah National Park

Americans celebrate the 75th anniversary of Shenandoah National Park, just 75 miles from Washington, DC, but worlds away in spirit.

Published Jun 25, 2011

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Minute Man National Historical Park
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Minute Man National Historical Park

Sites relevant to the start of the American Revolutionary War are interspersed throughout the modern-day Boston metropolitan region.

Published Jul 4, 2016

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Acadia National Park
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Acadia National Park

Mountains and hills roll right up to the Atlantic Ocean in this rocky landscape that became the first national park east of the Mississippi River.

Published Jul 31, 2016

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Badlands National Park
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Badlands National Park

Published Sep 25, 2005

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Mesa Verde National Park
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Mesa Verde National Park

Falling blocks of rock in cliff alcoves became building materials for Ancestral Puebloans—and a popular draw for tourists visiting the park.

Published Aug 26, 2016

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Sequoia National Park
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Sequoia National Park

Acquired October 22, 2008, this true-color image of Sequoia National Park shows a network of varied ecosystem, including conifer forests, river valleys, alpine vegetation, and bare rocks.

Published Nov 15, 2009

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Redwood National Park
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Redwood National Park

State parks had already been established in the region when the U.S. Congress established northern California’s Redwood National Park in 1968.

Published Feb 22, 2009

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Acadia National Park
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Acadia National Park

Published Nov 23, 2003

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Badlands National Park
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Badlands National Park

Over epochs, deposition and erosion have carved sharp spires and deep canyons out of this South Dakota landscape.

Published Aug 27, 2016

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Saguaro National Park
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Saguaro National Park

The park encompasses about 37,000 hectares of the Sonora Desert.

Published Jul 24, 2005

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Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park of Canada
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Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park of Canada

Acquired August 29, 2001, this true-color image of Yoho National Park shows a landscape of naked ridges, forested slopes, meandering rivers, and jewel-toned lakes.

Published Aug 23, 2009

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Voyageurs National Park
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Voyageurs National Park

Established in 1975, the park saw fur traders nearly two centuries earlier, and it supported human inhabitants thousands of years before that. Today, almost a third of the park is water, and travel through the park is usually by boat.

Published Oct 1, 2006

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Colonial National Historical Park
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Colonial National Historical Park

The colonial communities of “America’s historic triangle” played defining roles in the road to American independence.

Published Jul 4, 2018

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Gettysburg National Military Park
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Gettysburg National Military Park

Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the “Gettysburg Address” in November 1863, appears in this Ikonos satellite image from June 25, 2003.

Published Feb 12, 2009

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Denali National Park
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Denali National Park

Published Aug 2, 2005

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