Glimpses of our National Parks
Yard RS. 1920. Glimpses of our National Parks. Washington, D.C.
The national parks are areas which Congress has set apart, because of extraordinary scenic beauty, remarkable phenomena or other unusual qualification, for the use and enjoyment of the people for all time. They are administered by the National Park Service. These are not parks int he common meaning of the word. They are not beautiful tracks of cultivated country with smooth lawns and winding paths like Central Park in New York, or Lincoln Park in Chicago, or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. They are, on the contrary, large areas which nature, not man, has made beautiful and which the hand of man alters only enough to provide roads to enter them, trails to penetrate their fastnesses, and hotels and camps to live in.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Yard, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1920
- Units
- CRLA , GLAC , GRCA , HAVO , HIST , HOSP , LAVO , MEVE , MORA , ROMO , SEQU , YELL , YOSE , ZION
- Keywords
- Crater Lake, ehistory, General Grant, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, History, Hot Springs, Lafayette, Lassen, Mesa Verde, Mount McKinley, Mount Rainier, National Park, Rocky Mountain, sequoia, Yellowstone, Yosemite, ZION