somehow it's also satisfying when you run out of answers to think of, only to realize after time lapsed that you actually did not know any of the remaining answers. Gave it my all! 12/59
Well I was certain that was one, but I was spelling it “Smokey” for some reason (faulty memory?) and it was not accepting it. So perhaps quite a few more guessed it but spelled it differently?
I was reminded of the scene in West Wing where President Bartlet offers to list and describe in detail each and every one of America's National Parks to Josh. In the US it would be feasible - and probably a worthwhile bucket list item - to visit them all. Here in Australia we have over 500 - over 200 just in my state of Queensland. Probably not gonna try and make it to all of them.
So far I've been to 41 of the 59 U.S. parks. Not sure I'll make it to them all though - American Samoa is pretty far and some of the parks in Alaska are very remote. At my age, don't think I'm up to the challenge of roughing it for a week in park only accessible by bush or seaplane.
I knew most of the ones on the west coast (only half of Utah, Alaska, and California though), mostly because my family always takes really long road trips to different parks. My dad also samples in Lassen.
I was much worse at this than I thought -- I think because I associate my thoughts/memories with actual places rather than the official nomenclature of the park.
Would've been a hard quiz either way but I surprised myself in that I only got 21 right.
DId much better after the quiz was reset recently. The national park quarters are a good visual aid for remembering all the parks. Also, I managed to visit one of the parks recently (Gateway Arch), but I still have only been to ten of the parks. It's interesting how many amazing, remarkable natural sites there are in America that aren't National Parks, either. The National Monuments alone are another incredible list of places to see.
We've tried three times to visit Carlsbad while traveling, and each time something bad happened - someone in the car became very ill or we had car trouble. It is now permanently off our list.
Yea, I'm kind of with you there. Granted, the "park" label does not mean much of anything within the NPS, but still I feel like it doesn't do justice to the spectacular peaks of Rocky Mountain to have this artifact of the automobile age sharing the distinction.
I used to agree, but now I've decided that as an urban NP it makes sense. It's not only the arch - it includes the former Jefferson Expansion Memorial Park which memorializes the Louisiana Purchase and the beginning of the Lewis and Clark journey which greatly expanded our country and opened the west to settlement. It also includes the Old Courthouse which was the site of the Dred Scott case as well as the location of an attempt in 1872 for suffragist Virginia Minor to vote. There is also a large Black History collection. The architecture of the arch is amazing, (although one trip to the top was enough for me - the jerking and creaking as the cars adapted to the curvature was a bit unnerving.) The beauty of the arch along with the setting along the Mississippi River in my opinion makes it okay to expand the designation to a National Park rather than historical park or monument - just barely.
the monument vs park is less about size and more about paperwork, tbh. A national park basically has more protections and can't be changed as easily as a monument
Arches and Yellowstone are absolutely magnificent NPs! Definitely wanna see Acadia once, that region must be wonderful. Sad that the region around Lake Tahoe isn't a national park, it's of the most iconic regions I've ever seen!
A fair number of these were National Monuments when I was younger and traveling around the US, and they only got "promoted" to National Parks much later. That made this tricky for me.
America has got probably the greatest natural beauty of any place on Earth, when taken all together. I've had the pleasure of visiting many of these places. The Grand Canyon and Yosemite probably made the biggest impression. Death Valley was cool, too.
Great quiz. I've been to many of these parks, they are amazing. Reached level 74 on this quiz! Just counted, I've been to 22 out of 62 parks. I'd love to see them all, what a great bucket list.
I do not know if I am completely right, but I am 96% sure that the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a national park in West Branch, IA. Please add it to the test or correct me if I am wrong.
It's been nearly three years, I think we are due for a new National Park. Personally I think the following are great candidates:
-Craters of the Moon (Idaho)
-Atchafalaya River Basin (Louisiana)
-Avi Kwa Ame/Spirit Mountain (Nevada)
-Delaware Water Gap (Pennsylvania/New Jersey)
Of the four states above, Nevada is the only one with a National Park thus far, and it's crazy to me that Idaho and Louisiana don't have any at all. If anyone has any other places they think would make great parks I'd love to hear your thoughts; this country has no lack of natural beauty!
For my punishment, I should go there.
Would've been a hard quiz either way but I surprised myself in that I only got 21 right.
Though I think I should have got Sequoia and Saguaro
The most Obscure ones I got were New River Gorge and Katmai
Thanks!
Basically the same thing, still within the National Park Service system, but not technically classified as a National Park.
-Craters of the Moon (Idaho)
-Atchafalaya River Basin (Louisiana)
-Avi Kwa Ame/Spirit Mountain (Nevada)
-Delaware Water Gap (Pennsylvania/New Jersey)
Of the four states above, Nevada is the only one with a National Park thus far, and it's crazy to me that Idaho and Louisiana don't have any at all. If anyone has any other places they think would make great parks I'd love to hear your thoughts; this country has no lack of natural beauty!