National+Park+Quiz

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Crater Lake National Park Channel Islands National Park Mammoth Cave National Park Fundy National Park, Canada Badlands National Park Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Mississippi National Recreation Area Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Yellowstone National Park Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Grand Portage National Monument Great Smoky Mountains National Park St. Croix National Scenic River way Redwood National Park Dinosaur National Monument Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Prince Edward Island, Canada Cape Lookout National Seashore Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Acadia Grand Teton National Park Banff/Jasper + Yoho Parks, Canada Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 1. This 72 mile long Recreation area is only a small part of a river whose headquarters is located in a science museum. 2. The Rockefellers established this park located on Mount Desert Island. 3. In 1968, this National Scenic River way was one of the Original eight rivers eastablished under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. 4. This National Seashore has been known since 1590 as “Horrible Headland” in recognition of the area’s treacherous shoals and is home of a historic lighthouse and village. 5. This National Recreation Area is located in a big city and sees many stars on its Paths. 6. This National park has no foothills and rises 29,000 ft from the valley floor to the mountain tops. 7. This park includes three state parks and has the world’s tallest living tree. 8. No place this size on Earth can match this park for the variety of plant and animal species. 9. Frank Lloyd Wright described this park in 1935; “What I saw gave me an indescribable sense of the mysterious elsewhere-a distant architecture, ethereal…an endless supernatural- 10. Fossils of more than 140 species of plants can be found at this National Monument including Petrified sequoia stumps. 11. Mid 18-th century explorers followed a well-worn bison and American Indian trail through the Appalachian Mountain range through this Park. Bonus Clue: Steven worked on the ‘Ridge trail’ here for the Student Conservation Association for five weeks. 12. Beneath the sandstone and shale ridges of this park lies the most extensive cave system on Earth. 13. This is the only National Park set up to protect a historic fossil quarry. 14. William Henry Jackson’s photographs and Thomas Morans’s sketches influenced congress to establish this park as the world’s first National Park in 1872. 15. Nestled against the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this park is home to the tallest dunes in North America and cover 330 square miles. 16. This park is home to the deepest lake in North America and has an island named Wizard. 17. This monument was named “Kitchi Onigaming” by the Ojibwe and “The great carrying Place by French explorers and missionaries and bypassed rapids on the lower pigeon river. 18. An island near this park was made famous in the book ”The Island of Blue Dolphins”. 19. President Thomas Jefferson told these explorers to explore the Missouri river and other rivers “that may offer direct & practical water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce”. 20. This National Lakeshore is located on the Western shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 3 Islands that appear to look like bears off its coast. 21. This Park is located near the point of the greatest tidal variation in the world. 22. This Park is located on the southern shore of Lake Superior and was the first National Lakeshore in 1966. 23. These interlocking parks are located in the Rockies and are home to massive Glaciers. 24. Anne of Green Gables lived on this Island and scenes from this park are in the movie.
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