On our second day's long drive to the eastern Glacier National Park, we talked about how many states we / I have visited, and how many national parks we / I have visited, as during this summer vacation, we were going to visit two more national parks: Glacier and Yellowstone in one week.
The National Park Service was created by an Act signed by President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916. Yellowstone National Park was established by an Act signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, as the Nation's first national park.
There are over 365 National Park Service areas in the Unites States, including two-thirds of small historic sites. But when people think of National Parks, they think most often of places like Yellowstone. There are 58 officially-designated National Parks in the United States and its dependent areas.
Let's start from the shorter list of mine: national parks in the United States with established dates not my visit dates!
Yosemite NP, California, Oct. 1, 1890
Sequoia NP, California, Sept. 25, 1890
Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado, Jan. 26, 1915
Cuyahoga Valley NP, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2000
Great Smoky Mountains NP, North Carolina and Tennessee, May 22, 1926
Grand Canyon NP, Arizona, Feb. 26, 1919
Glacier NP, Montana, May 11, 1910
Yellowstone NP, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, Mar. 1, 1872
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