A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. The United States has 59 national parks. These gorgeous photos highlight scenery from just few of them:
“Zion National Park” by Jack Harwick
“Virgin Islands National Park” by Iliyan Gochev
“Glacier National Park” by John Hewitt
“Petrified Forest National Park” by Ethan Kan
“Yellowstone National Park” by Kim Seng
“Arches National Park” by Daina Baker
“Badlands National Park” by Esther Lee
“Bison National Park” by Betsy Smith-McCorkle
“Olympic National Park” by Justin Kern
“Capitol Reef National Park” by mark smith
“Mount Rainier National Park” by Michael Matti
“Crater Lake National Park” by matthew hosford
“Pinnacles National Park” by Hemant Buch
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I think the author should have done a bit more research before posting this article. As mentioned there is no Bison National Park, and the image showing Pinnacles National Park is taken from the Pinnacles National Park in Australia!!
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as were these Arches National Park, Utah. what a great place it was too.
there are more images on my website.
There is no Bison National Park – There is a National Bison Range which is a National Wildlife Refuge in Montana established in1898 by Teddy Roosevelt to protect and preserve the North American buffalo.