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Grand Canyon National Park
South Kaibab Trail
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This well-maintained dirt trail offering wonderful expansive views. This is a great trail for short day hiking trips into the canyon of half a day or less. During winter months foot traction and hiking poles are advised when trail surfaces are icy. There is no public parking at the South Kaibab Trailhead. Please park at the Visitor Center, then take the Kaibab (Orange) Route shuttle bus to the trailhead. It is a 9-minute ride from the Visitor Center to the Trailhead.
Colorado National Monument
Devils Kitchen Trail (Colorado National Monument)
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Devils Kitchen Trail begins just inside the East (Grand Junction) Entrance. Less than a mile hike leads to a grotto of sandstone towers and boulders.
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Estimates of visitor use levels are important for informing park management decisions. The spatial and temporal extent and resolution of visitor use estimates can limit how they can be incorporated into management decisions, research, or paired with ecological data. This article recommends how visitor use monitoring can be approached more systematically and then used in parkwide predictive models of visitor use. NPS Intermountain Park Science, 2025
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
128th New York Monument
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Veterans of New York's 128th Infantry Regiment dedicated a monument in memory of their comrades who died at the Battle of Cedar Creek. The monument marks the left end of the U.S. 19th Corps' position during the battle.
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Mrs. Recy Taylor was just 24 years old when she was brutally raped by six white men in Alabama. Upholding the Black woman's tradition of testimony and protest, Taylor actively participated in the pursuit to bring her attackers to justice. Though the men were acquitted in two separate trials, Taylor's courage speaks to the resolve of Black women to channel their pain and anger into political anger. We honor Taylor as an ancestor for teaching us a lesson on courage.
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Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson was an evangelist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker. She innovated new ways to deliver religious messages through mass media.
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Plants Exhibit
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Northern Colorado Plateau Network’s scientists use satellite observations of vegetation condition in Curecanti National Recreation Area with climate data over time to reveal how climate influences plant production and phenology. Knowing which of the wide range of 16 vegetation assemblages found in Curecanti are more or less sensitive to climate change can help managers understand what to expect over the next few decades, and plan for the changes coming their way.
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The Bayard Rustin Residence is significant as the most important resource associated with Bayard Rustin (1912- 1987), a person of great importance in American political and social history. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin lived a peripatetic life as a social activist and organizer, living intermittently in a number of different homes. In 1962, Rustin purchased apartment 9J in Building 7 of the new Penn South Complex in the West Chelsea section of Manhattan.
Nicodemus National Historic Site
Nettie Craig Asberry
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Nettie Craig Asberry is considered the first Black woman to earn a doctorate degree. Her family settled in Nicodemus in 1879, and she taught in town from 1886-1889, teaching both at the District No. 1 School and offering private music lessons. Asberry spent most of her life in Tacoma, Washington where she continued to teach music and advocated for the equal rights of all.
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These learning activities engage students with the history of women advocating for the right to vote. Each lesson uses an item from the National Woman's Party collection or an aspect of the story of suffrage to make connections to broad questions of working for change.
The White House and President's Park
White House Lit Up With Rainbow Colors in 2015
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Rainbow colors lit up the White House on the evening of June 26, 2015, in celebration of the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision. The decision, which was announced that same day, legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. On December 13, 2022, the White House was lit up in rainbow colors again, this time the south portico to celebrate the Respect for Marriage Act being signed into law by President Biden.
Women's Rights National Historical Park
The Magic Sash, Episode 1: "The Sash" Lesson Plan
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This lesson plan accompanies Episode 1 of The Magic Sash podcast. It looks at the history of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and explores how people express their support for social and political issues or candidates.
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This lesson is part of a series about the World War II home front in Tempe, Arizona American World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains readings and photos to contribute to learners’ understandings about the role of civilian contributions on the home front in Tempe: in agriculture, volunteerism, and financial support of the war efforts.
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Learn more about Tempe, Arizona, a designated World War II Heritage City by comparing it to other Heritage Cities and thinking about larger themes on the World War II Home Front.
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These four lessons support understanding the significance of Tempe, Arizona-an American World War II Heritage City. Highlights of the first two listed lessons include military training, education, civilian contributions, and volunteerism. The third lesson shares on the Papago Park German prisoner-of-war camp in Tempe, which became well-known for a large prisoner escape. All lessons highlight specific contributions and connect to larger home front themes with primary sources.
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In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.
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In winter of 1777, "Baron" Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben joined General Washington's troops at the Valley Forge encampment and put them through proper military training; creating a newer, more effective, and more professional Continental Army in the process.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Saddle Rock Trail
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The Saddle Rock Trail is the most popular hiking trail at Scotts Bluff National Monument. The trail leads 1.6 miles from the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center to the summit of Scotts Bluff. It is a 435 foot ascent featuring some of the best views in the state of Nebraska.
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First Lady, diplomat, and activist, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated her life in the cause of civil liberties and human rights.