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Description:: National Parks Services are located around the United States showing us history, culture,
education, recreation and various other beauties.

The Park MUST be listed on the US National Park
Service Website before it can be accepted into this category! Please make sure that this waymark is listed on the US National Park page. Please read FULL description.

Expanded Description:

This category was originally intended for the National Park itself with the branches within the park not included. Some parks, for example Golden Gate, have places within the park which are included on the website with a page of their own. If i see that these places have a page of their own listed on the US Park Service site I will include the waymark. Otherwise only the park itself will be accepted into this category. Please include a picture of the Park Sign, and US National Park Service area you are logging. Also, get coordinates that are accurate of the area. Please include a picture or pictures of high quality of anything of interest within the park. Such as the visitors center or a monument with the Parks name included in the picture. Please include any other pictures of anything within the park that is of interest to potential visitors of this park.

The Park MUST be listed on the US National Park Service Website and the picture within the park must be of something important the park is based on.

1. Please include as many details as possible.

2. Please check off the variables included from the US National Park Service website.

3. Please take good high quality pictures.

Some EXAMPLES of what is required are:

A. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial consists of the Gateway Arch, the Museum of Westward Expansion, and St. Louis' Old Courthouse.

B. Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

C. Vicksburg National Military Park

D. Grand Canyon National Park

Instructions for Posting a National Parks (U.S.) Waymark:

Does this branch, if it is within the park and not the park, have a page of its own on the website? If so, the waymark will be accepted otherwise it will not be accepted... Please post TWO high quality pictures (or more & no low resolution cell phone pictures please) of the Park Sign and another of something within the park with the Park name in the sign if possible. Please fill in the variables as thoroughly as possible from the National Parks Service Website.

Instructions for Visiting a Waymark in this Category:

Please post a picture or pictures with this log.

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Waymarks can be added to this category
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Variables:

State/States the Park is located...
Park Designation
Times the Visitors Center (or Park) is Open....
Months the Visitors Center/Park is open...
Website From the National Parks Service Page of this Waymark...
SECONDARY website.
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view gallery	Ellis Island National Monument - Jersey City, NJ in National Parks (U.S.) Millions of Europeans passed by this point hopping to have better lives in America. Today, Ellis Island is part of the National Park System. posted by: bluesnote location: New Jersey date approved: 8/19/2016 last visited: 7/26/2003
view gallery	Pinnacles National Park - San Benito County, CA in National Parks (U.S.) This National Park was established in 2013. posted by: Metro2 location: California date approved: 7/23/2016 last visited: 11/9/2014
view gallery	African Burial Ground National Monument - New York, NY in National Parks (U.S.) A large abandoned cemetery, active in 1690 to 1794, for freed enslaved African-Americans is remembered by the African Burial Ground National Monument in lower Manhattan. posted by: bluesnote location: New York date approved: 7/13/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Stonewall National Monument - New York, NY in National Parks (U.S.) America's newest national park. The national monument includes the Stonewall Inn and the nearby Christopher Park and Christopher Street, renamed Stonewall Place. posted by: bluesnote location: New York date approved: 7/3/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Old Spanish Trail Marker #14 -US 93/I-15, Southeast NV in National Parks (U.S.) Marker #14 on the Nevada section of the Old Spanish Trail. posted by: jiggs11 location: Nevada date approved: 4/23/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Colonial Parkway - Williamsburg, VA in National Parks (U.S.) Colonial National Historical Parkway connects Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown and is considered to be part of the National Park System. posted by: bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 3/21/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Historic Jamestown - Jamestown, VA in National Parks (U.S.) The first English settlement in the Americas began here in 1607. posted by: bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 3/17/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Jones Point Park - Alexandria, VA in National Parks (U.S.) Located at the southern most tip of the original triangle of Washington, DC the park has many activities including basketball courts and running trails. At the southern tip of the park, is the nation's first federal monument that marks the tip of DC. posted by: bluesnote location: Virginia date approved: 3/17/2016 last visited: never
view gallery	Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve - New Orleans, LA in National Parks (U.S.) The Park's Visitors Center is located at 419 Decatur Street, New Orleans. Coordinates set here. posted by: Metro2 location: Louisiana date approved: 12/23/2015 last visited: 9/3/2015
view gallery	Lake Meredith National Recreational Area - Fritch, TX in National Parks (U.S.) Park Headquarters are located at coordinates given. The Park is on the Canadian River some thirty miles northeast of Amarillo in Moore, Hutchinson, and Potter counties, in the Texas Panhandle. posted by: WalksfarTX location: Texas date approved: 11/25/2015 last visited: never
view gallery	Amistad National Recreation Area -- Val Verde Co. TX in National Parks (U.S.) The visitor center for the Amistad National Recreational Area is located on the US 90 near the community of Lakeview. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Texas date approved: 9/30/2015 last visited: 7/22/2015
view gallery	César E. Chávez National Monument - Keene, CA in National Parks (U.S.) The Cesar Chavez National Monument in Keene, CA. posted by: saopaulo1 location: California date approved: 9/18/2015 last visited: never
view gallery	General Grant National Memorial - NY, NY in National Parks (U.S.) The General Grant National Memorial, commonly referred to as Grant's Tomb, is not a tomb. It is the largest mausoleum in North America. It's located at Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street in New York City. posted by: neoc1 location: New York date approved: 6/16/2015 last visited: 7/24/2015
view gallery	Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center -- Corinth MS in National Parks (U.S.) The brand new Corinth Interpretive Center, a component of the US National Park Service. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Mississippi date approved: 5/8/2015 last visited: 5/1/2015
view gallery	Great Falls Park - Mclean, Virginia in National Parks (U.S.) Views of the Great Falls and remnants of the Patowmack Canal posted by: ripraff location: Virginia date approved: 11/12/2014 last visited: 5/7/2016
view gallery	Effigy Mounds National Monument in National Parks (U.S.) Effigy Mounds National Monument preserves more than 200 prehistoric mounds built by Native Americans including numerous effigy mounds shaped like animals, including bears and birds. posted by: nomadwillie location: Iowa date approved: 10/12/2014 last visited: never
view gallery	Golden Gate - Crissy Field Marsh & Beach - San Francisco, CA in National Parks (U.S.) From a waste dump to a thriving coastal habitat, Crissy Field has gone through an amazing transformation. This former military land is now a dynamic public open space that recreates the multi-layered natural and cultural history of the site. posted by: DougK location: California date approved: 8/29/2014 last visited: 9/2/2014
view gallery	Cedar Breaks National Monument -- nr Cedar City UT in National Parks (U.S.) The amazing Cedar Breaks National Monument, 12 miles from Cedar City UT posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Utah date approved: 8/27/2014 last visited: 1/29/2016
view gallery	Navajo National Monument -- Shonto AZ in National Parks (U.S.) Navajo National Monument in Northern Arizona has dinosaurs, Puebloan Ruins, and PLENTY of amazing scenery. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Arizona date approved: 8/26/2014 last visited: 8/27/2014
view gallery	Theodore Roosevelt National Park -- Medora ND in National Parks (U.S.) Three separate units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park are scattered throughout western ND. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: North Dakota date approved: 1/23/2014 last visited: 3/17/2016
view gallery	Castle Clinton National Monument - New York City, NY in National Parks (U.S.) Castle Clinton came under the administration of the United States Park Service in 1950. posted by: Metro2 location: New York date approved: 12/13/2013 last visited: 4/16/2016
view gallery	Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail - Newport, RI in National Parks (U.S.) This statue of Rochambeau is at the start of the Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail, marking the area where he and 5,800 French forces landed before traveling to the decisive Battle of Yorktown that ended the American Revolutionary War. posted by: Chasing Blue Sky location: Rhode Island date approved: 12/8/2013 last visited: 12/28/2014
view gallery	Catoctin Mountain Park - Thurmont, MD in National Parks (U.S.) Home to Camp David, the park has a deep historic background from making charcoal to WPA and CCC camps it became to be under the NPS in 1936. posted by: nomadwillie location: Maryland date approved: 11/17/2013 last visited: 7/24/2014
view gallery	Petersburg National Battlefied , Five Forks Battlefield - Dinwiddie, VA in National Parks (U.S.) Visitor Center is located on VA 627 just about a half a mile from the intersection of 627,613 and 645. The National Historic Marker for Five Forks is located at this intersectin. posted by: nomadwillie location: Virginia date approved: 11/3/2013 last visited: 11/14/2013
view gallery	Grand Teton National Park ~ Colter Bay Visitor Center in National Parks (U.S.) This is the northermost Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park. posted by: brwhiz location: Wyoming date approved: 9/11/2013 last visited: never

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