What They Mean....

On the National Park Service website.  There are always a saying at the beginning of the page for each park.  Here is what they say for each park that I have been too.

Parks
1) Birmingham Civil Rights - The fight for Civil Rights
2) Denali - More than a mountain
3) Kenai Fjords - Where Mountains, Ice, and Ocean Meet
4) Canyon de Chelly - Not all who wander are lost
5) Casa Grande Ruins - For More Than 650 Years the Casa Grande Has Stood as a Meeting Place and Landmark
6) Chiricahua - A Wonderland of Rocks
7) Coronado - A Journey of Conquest and Exploration
8) Fort Bowie - A Clash of Cultures
9) Grand Canyon - Grand Canyon National Park
10) Hubbell Trading Post - Shhep, Rugs, Jewelry and So Much More...
11) Montezuma Castle - Would Your House Look This Good 800 Years From Now?
12) Petrified Forest - A Place for Discovery
13) Saguaro - Welcome to Saguaro National Park
14) Sunset Crater Volcano - The Destruction and Rebirth of a Landscape
15) Tonto - Quintessential Arizona
16) Tumacacori - Culture, Nature, and Community
17) Tuzigoot - Built By a Thriving Community
18) Walnut Canyon - Remarkable Rocks and Ancient Cliff Dwellings
19) Wupatki - Experience A Legacy
20) Channel Islands - Close to the California Mainland... Yet Worlds Apart
21) Golden Gate - Parks For The People
22) Santa Monica Mountains - From the Mountains to the Sea
23) Sequoia & Kings Canyon - A Land of Giants
24) Black Canyon of the Gunnison - Deep, Steep and Narrow
25) Colorado - The Heart of the World
26) Curecanti - Deep Water and Big Fish
27) Dinosaur - Discover Dinosaur
28) Mesa Verde - Preserving Pueblo Heritage
29) Rocky Mountain - Feel Like You're On Top of the world!
30) Fords Theatre - Abraham Lincoln's Legacy Lives
31) Lincoln Memorial - Savior of the Union
32) National Mall and Memorial Parks - Icons of the Nation's Capital
33) President's Park White House - The President of the United States lives in a National Park
34) Vietnam Veterans - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
35) Washington Monument - First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen
36) World War II Memorial - Service, Sacrifice, Unity, and Victory
37) Craters of the Moon - A Violent Past, Calm Present, and Uncertain Future...
38) Boston - "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people..."
39) Lowell - All was expectancy. Changes were coming...nobody could guess what. - Lucy Larcom
40) Minute Man - A Revolution begins - A Nation is born
41) Salem Maritime - "To the Farthest Ports of the Rich East"
42) Saugus Iron Works - Explore the birthplace of the American iron and steel industry
43) Jefferson - Gateway to the West
44) Agate Fossil Beds - Fossils and Much, Much More
45) Homestead - FREE LAND was the cry!
46) Scotts Bluff - A Landmark for Many Peoples
47) Lake Mead - America's First National Recreation Area
48) Tule Springs Fossil Beds - Explore the Ice Age
49) Bandelier - An Open Book of Human History
50) Carlsbad Caverns - Beauty and Wonder; Above and Below
51) El Morro - Paso por aqui...
52) Fort Union - A Fort For a Young America
53) Gila Cliff Dwellings - Shedding Light on the Mogollon Culture
54) Manhattan Project - Dawn of the Atomic Age
55) Pecos - Gateway to the Plains
56) Petroglyph - A Landscape of Symbols
57) Salinas Pueblo Missions - Salt, Societies, and Spirituality: A Tale of Two Cultures
58) Valles Caldere - The Nation's Newest National Preserve
59) White Sands - Like No Place Else on Earth
60) Sagamore Hill - The Summer White House
61) Cape Lookout - Explore the Undeveloped Islands of Cape Lookout
62) Independence - "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal..."
63) Valley Forge - Determined to Persevere
64) Badlands - Good Times in the Bandlands
65) Jewel Cave - Explore and Discover One of the Last Frontiers in the World
66) Mount Rushmore - American History, Alive in Stone...
67) Wind Cave - A hidden world beneath the prairie
68) Chamizal - Where History and Culture Come to Life
69) Guadalupe Mountains - Wilderness Waiting to be Exploreed!
70) Padre Island - The Longest Stretch of Undeveloped Barrier Island in the World
71) San Antonio Missions - A New God and King
72) Arlington House, the Robert E Lee Memorial - The Robert E Lee Memorial
73) Colonial - Witness America's Beginnings, from and English colony in 1607 to an independent nation in 1781
74) Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle unit - Rebuilt from Ashes, a Gateway to Adventure
75) Wing Luke Museum - Step Into a Uniquely American Story
76) Grand Teton - Mountains of the Imagination
77) Yellowstone - Observe Inspiring Nature
78) El Malpais - Rivers of Ancient Fires


Trails
1) Pony Express - Long Distance Communication
2) El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro - The Royal Road of the Interior Land
3) Old Spanish - An Arduous Adventure of Rich Trade
4) Santa Fe - The Great Prairie Highway
5) Oregon Trail - Westward Migration
6) Juan Bautista de Anza - An Epic Journey Through New Spain
7) Captain John Smith Chesapeake - Chesapeake Bay  Journeys

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