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The United States National Parks (Most Visited Parks (Yosemite (California…
The United States National Parks
Origins
Pre NPS
Yosemite Grant 1864
Yellowstone National Park 1872
Antiquities Act of 1906
National Parks Service
NPS Created 1916
War Sites transferred to NPS 1933
Increase in Demand in 1950
Focus change to accessibility in 1966
Now Manages 417 Units, 59 national parks, and employees 21,651 people (2014)
Famous People Involved
Donors
John D. Rockefeller
Grand Tetons
George Dorr
Acadia
Government Officials
Theodore Roosevelt
Grand Canyon
Stephen Mather
First Director of NPS
Horace Albright
Second Director of NPS
Franklin Roosevelt
Barack Obama
States with the Most Parks
Utah
5
Colorado
4
California
9
Alaska
8
Most Visited Parks
Yosemite
California
5 million
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Grand Canyon
Arizona
5.9 million visitors
Zion
Utah
4.2 million
Great Smoky Mountains
Tennessee
11 million visitors