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National Parks of the West "Fodor's Road Guide National Parks of the West gives you everything to see and do in America's western parks. Experience the best nature trails, scenic overlooks, ranger programs, and picnic spots in each of the West's 33 national parks. Plan the perfect adventure. Hiking, boating, bird-watching, horseback riding, bicycling, and more: whatever your sport, get detailed information on how and where to make the most of the great outdoors. Great maps and itineraries for park-to-park driving tours take you through dramatic landscapes. Savvy one- to five-day itineraries help you plan your stay. Listings for restaurants, motels, and campgrounds help you choose spots in all price ranges inside and outside the parks. And with your purchase of "Road Guide National Parks of the West, you will receive $5 off a National Parks pass! Sales of this book help support the national parks. All text in this book was reviewed for accuracy by National Park Service personnel.

From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity, most of them carved out of public land for recreation and preservation around the turn of the last century. America has changed dramatically since then, and so has its conceptions of what parkland ought to be. In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype for the twenty-first century. Cobbled together from public and private lands in a politically charged arena, the GGNRA represents a new direction for parks as it highlights the long-standing tension within the National Park Service between preservation and recreation. Long a center of conservation, the Bay Area was well positioned for such an innovative concept. Writing with insight and wit, Rothman reveals the many complex challenges that local leaders, politicians, and the NPS faced as they attempted to administer sites in this area. He tells how Representative Phillip Burton guided a comprehensive bill through Congress to establish the park and how he and others expanded the acreage of the GGNRA, redefined its mission to the public, forged an identity for interconnected parks, and struggled against formidable odds to obtain the San Francisco Presidio and convert it into a national park. Engagingly written, "The New Urban Park offers a balanced examination of grassroots politics and its effect on municipal, state, and federal policy. While most national parks dominate the economies of their regions, GGNRA was from the start tied to the multifaceted needs of its public and politicalconstituents--including neighborhood, ethnic, and labor interests as well as the usual supporters from the conservation movement. As a national recreation area, GGNRA helped redefine that category in the public mind.

National parks of Scotland - There are currently two national parks of Scotland, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, created in 2002, and Cairngorms National Park, created in 2003. These national parks were designated as such under the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000, legislation proposed by the devolved government in Scotland, almost 60 years after the idea of British national parks was first suggested, although it was a Scot, John Muir, who had initiated the first national park in the world, at Yosemite in the ...

National parks of England and Wales - The national parks of England and Wales are areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape that are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. Despite the name, national parks in England and Wales are quite different from those in many other countries, where national parks are owned and managed by the government as a protected community resource, and permanent human communities are not a part of the landscape.

National Parks of Argentina - The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 29 national parks in Argentina. The parks cover a very varied set of terrains and biotopes, from Baritú National Park on the altiplano northern border with Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego National Park in the far south of the continent.

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