Honors 3900
National Parks
- U.S. National Park Service
- PBS site for films The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- Timeline for the National Park Service
- Impacts of Visitor Spending in Yellowstone, 2006
National Parks by date of designation.
Note: Dates in parenthesis refer to the first designation in the NPS
system, when different from the year the area was designated a National
Park. For instance Death Valley was a National Monument from 1933 to
1994, when it became a National Park.
1872 Yellowstone
1890 Yosemite (1864)
Sequoia
1899 Mount Rainier
1902 Crater Lake
1903 Wind Cave
1906 Mesa Verde
1910 Glacier
1915 Rocky Mountain
1916 Lassen Volcanic (1907)
1919 Grand Canyon (1908)
Zion (1918)
1921 Hot Springs (1832)
1926 Great Smoky Mountains
Shenandoah
Mammoth Cave
1928 Bryce Canyon (1923)
1929 Acadia (1916)
Badlands (1929)
Grand Teton
1930 Carlsbad Caverns (1923)
1931 Isle Royale
1934 Everglades
1935 Big Bend
1938 Olympic (1909)
1940 Kings Canyon (1890)
1956 Zion (1937)
Virgin Islands
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1960 Haleakala (1916) 1961 Hawaii Volcanoes (1916) 1962 Petrified Forest (1906) 1964 Canyonlands 1966 Guadalupe Mountains 1968 North Cascades Redwood 1971 Capitol Reef (1937) Voyageurs 1978 Arches (1929) Theodore Roosevelt (1947) 1980 Channel Islands (1938) Biscayne (1968) Denali (1917) Katmai (1918) Glacier Bay (1925) Gates of the Artic (1978) Kenai Fjords (1978) Kobuk Valley (1978) Lake Clark (1978) Wrangell St. Elias (1978) 1986 Great Basin (1922) 1988 National Park of American Samoa 1992 Dry Tortugas (1935) 1994 Death Valley (1933) Saguaro (1933) Joshua Tree (1936) 1999 Black Canyon of the Gunnison (1933) 2000 Cuyahoga Valley (1974) 2003 Congaree (1976) 2004 Great Sand Dunes (1932) |