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Random National Park Facts (300+ possible answers)

For each given fact, name the only US National Park that fits the description. There are 310 possible facts: 5 for each of 62 parks.
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Contains the Hoh Rainforest, the wettest place in the contiguous US
Olympic
Contains the White Rim trail, a 71-mile route overlooking the Colorado River
Canyonlands
Is the only national park in Florida inaccessible by car
Dry Tortugas
Contains Medano Creek, a seasonal stream that forms the division between subalpine forest and high desert ecosystems
Great Sand Dunes
Is named for the largest species of cactus in the US
Saguaro
Contains the Javelina Rocks, named after the small, native mammal
Saguaro
Protects Half Dome, a 4,800-foot granite dome
Yosemite
Was the first park to be designated in the 21st century
Cuyahoga Valley
Was first fully traversed by boat by John Wesley Powell in 1869
Grand Canyon
Protects peaks in the Sangre de Christo range as well as the adjacent San Luis Valley
Great Sand Dunes
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Once held the world's oldest tree, a 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine
Great Basin
Now contains land originally designated as Cinder Cone National Monument
Lassen Volcanic
Includes Paradise Visitor Center which is the snowiest measured place on earth
Mount Rainier
Is connected to Yellowstone via the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway
Grand Teton
Is the least visited
Gates of the Arctic
Is the northernmost in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Yosemite
Contains South Dakota's richest fossil bed, one of the highest-density beds in the world
Badlands
Protects 275 square miles of gypsum dunes, the largest such dunefield on the planet
White Sands
Contains America's largest glacier system, including the 127-mile-long Bagley Icefield
Wrangell- St. Elias
Is comemmorated on Florida's America the Beautiful quarter
Everglades
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