Hot Springs, Burling- | Jan. 9, 1903 ton route and Chicago & North Western.
Cavern having many miles of galleries
and numerous chambers of consid-
erable size containing many peculiar
formations.
Many sulphur and other springs pos-
sessing medicinal value.
Small park with woods, streams, and a
lake Is an important wild-animal
preserve.
(Most notable and best preserved, pre-
historic cliff dwellings in United
States, if not in the world.
15, 923. 24 Rugged mountain region of unsurpassed
Alpine character-250 glacier-fed
lakes of romantic beauty-60 small
glaciers-Precipices thousands of feet
deep-Almost sensational scenery of
marked individuality-Fine trout
fishing.
Mesa Verde (ma'sa věr' Southwestern Colo- Mancos, Denver & Rio
1 In Wyoming, 3,114 square miles; in Montana, 198 square miles; in Idaho, 36 square miles. 2 Estimated.
Heart of the Rockies-Snowy range, peaks 11,000 to 14,255 feet altitudeRemarkable records of glacial period.
3 separate areas: 2-Kilauea, continuously active for century and section of interesting Kau Desert, and Mauna Loa, altitude 13,675 (largest active volcano in world, erupting every decade) are on Hawaii; Haleakala, on Maui, 10,000 feet high, with tremendous rift in summit 8 miles across and 3,000 feet deep; contains many cones, gorgeous tropical forests; mahogany groves, and lava caves. erupted 200 years ago.
National parks administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior-Continued
3 Formerly Grand Canyon National Monument.
4 Formerly Sieur de Monts National Monument; donated to the United States. Formerly Zion National Monument.
THE NATIONAL MILITARY AND OTHER PARKS ADMINISTERED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT [Number, 7; total area, 22 square miles or 14,038 acres; chronologically in order of creation]
ADMINISTERED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[Number, 30; total area, 1,857.83 square miles or 1,189,010.21 acres; chronologically in order of creation]
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Remarkable natural rock tower, of volcanic origin,
1,200 feet in height.
Prehistoric cliff-dwelling ruin of unusual size situated
in a niche in face of a vertical cliff. Of scenic and
ethnologic interest.
(Enormous sandstone rock eroded in form of a castle,
upon which inscriptions have been placed by early
Spanish explorers. Contains cliff-dweller ruins. Of
great historic, scenic, and ethnologic interest.
[Abundance of petrified coniferous trees, one of which
forms a small natural bridge. Is of great scientific
interest.
Numerous cliff-dweller ruins, including communal
houses, in good condition and but little excavated.
(One of the most noted redwood groves in California, and
was donated by Hon. William Kent, ex-Member of
Congress. Located 7 miles from San Francisco.
[Many spire-like rock formations, 600 to 1,000 feet high,
visible many miles; also numerous caves and other
formations.
(3 natural bridges, among largest examples of their kind.
Largest bridge is 222 feet high, 65 feet thick at top of
arch; arch is 28 feet wide; span 261 feet; height of
span, 157 feet. Other two slightly smaller.
(Immense limestone cavern of great scientific interest,
magnificently decorated with stalactite formations.
Now closed to public because of depredations by van-
dals.
Ruin of Franciscan mission dating from seventeenth
century. Being restored by National Park Service as
rapidly as funds permit.
Numerous pueblo, or cliff-dweller ruins, in good pres-
ervation.
Cavern of considerable extent, near Cody.
(One of the most important of earliest Spanish mission ruins in the
pueblo ruins. Southwest. Monument also contains
Port of call for steamships, Mar. 23, 1910 from Seattle.
Park of great natural beauty and historic interest as
scene of massacre of Russians by Indians. Contains
16 totem poles of best native workmanship.
Unique natural bridge of great scientific interest and
symmetry. Height 309 feet above water, and span
is 278 feet, in shape of rainbow.
Many lofty monoliths, and is wonderful example of
erosion, and of great scenic beauty and interest.
1,940. 43 Splendid collection of characteristic desert flora and
numerous pictographs. Interesting rock formations.
Deposits of fossil remains of prehistoric animal life of
great scientific interest.
Cinder cone of geologically recent formation.
Includes Crowhigh Butte, peculiar mountain forma-
tion, from which Explorer Verendrye first beheld ter-
ritory beyond Missouri River.
These ruins are one of the most noteworthy relics of a
prehistoric age and people within the limits of the
United States. Discovered in ruinous condition in
1694.
Wonderland of great scientific interest in the study of
volcanism. Phenomena exist upon a scale of great
magnitude. Includes "Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes.'
Region of historic and scientific interest. Many famous
old trails traversed by the early pioneers in the win-
ning of the West passed over and through this monu-
ment.
Located on eastern slope of Sleeping Ute Mountain.
Ruins of great archæological value, relic of prehistoric
inhabitants.
Area containing deposits of plant fossils.
Prehistoric ruin of pueblo type containing 500 rooms
Four groups of prehistoric towers, pueblos and cliff
dwellings.
Old stone fort and spring of pure water in desert region
Serves as memorial to early western pioneer life.
Limestone caverns of extraordinary proportions and
of unusual beauty.
Weird volcanic region containing remarkable fissure
eruption together with its associated volcanic cones,
craters, lava flows, caves, natural bridges, and other
phenomena.
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3 From Mar. 2, 1889, until Aug, 3, 1918, classified as a national park
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