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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Orientation Plaza
  • Type: Place

Immediately adjacent the visitor parking area are restrooms and an orientation shelter with exhibits and picnic tables. These exhibits set the stage for an exploration of the fort. Just to the east of the shelter is the paved trail to the fort.

Grand Teton National Park

Jenny Lake Plaza
  • Type: Place

Dive deeper into the history of Grand Teton National Park. Interpretive signs introduce topics like the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, grizzly bear research, geologic forces and features, glaciers, and the Hayden Survey. A large bronze tactile relief map will help orient you in relation to where you are in the park. Different peaks, canyons, lakes, falls, and other park features are labeled throughout the map.

Grand Teton National Park

Jenny Lake & Park Orientation
  • Type: Place

Plan your Jenny Lake and park experience by reading these informational signs.

Grand Teton National Park

Jenny Lake Orientation
  • Type: Place

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Sable Falls Orientation Wayside
  • Type: Place

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Grand Sable Visitor Center Orientation Wayside
  • Type: Place

Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice (Durham, North Carolina)
  • Type: Article

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina works to increase engagement across divisions such as race, class, sexual orientation and gender identity, and spiritual practice to address enduring inequities and injustice in our local, national, and global communities. The center operates from the childhood home of Pauli Murray, a civil rights activist, lawyer, educator, writer, and minister.

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Ash Mountain Entrance Station
  • Type: Place

Visitors pay the entrance fee or use an interagency pass at the station. Entrances station staff provide a park newspaper and other orientation materials.

Shiloh National Military Park

Orientation Shelter - Tour Stop #1
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Shiloh Indian Mounds Shelter and trailhead.

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Current Archeological Prospection 2024: Advances for the 21st Century
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In its 31st year, the workshop will be held May 13–17, 2024 at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Although the schedule is weather dependent, the general format will consist of lectures planned in the morning, afternoons dedicated to hands-on fieldwork, and short evening sessions oriented toward other topics like data processing.

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Theater at Valley Forge
  • Type: Place

The Theater at Valley Forge is located behind the visitor center and adjacent to the administration building and the Mini Grand Parade. Open to the public from 9 AM to 5 PM daily (except for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Days), and the 19-minute orientation film is shown on the hour and the half-hour from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Uptown Shopping Center
  • Type: Place

The Uptown Shopping Center first welcomed customers in 1949 and was one of the first car-oriented shopping malls constructed in the United States. Although the Manhattan Project ended, the Hanford Site continued producing plutonium throughout the Cold War. The mall exemplifies the type of prosperity that the US Atomic Energy Commission promised to nuclear industry workers during the Cold War. Today, the shopping center is painted in an atomic-age design.

Fort Monroe National Monument

Fort Monroe Visitor & Education Center
  • Type: Place

Start your visit and get oriented at Fort Monroe Visitor & Education Center. Exhibits and videos tell of people and events that shaped fort's historic landscape. The Visitor & Education Center is in the former Coast Artillery Library, built in 1909.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Landscapes of Change: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
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In the summer of 1999, the Cape Hatteras Light Station was moved 2,900 feet from the spot where it had stood since 1870. Because of shoreline erosion in this dynamic coastal environment, the lighthouse was now dangerously close to the ocean's edge. The remarkable undertaking including efforts to protect the structures, maintain the coastal setting of the original site, and preserve the original orientation to the shoreline and spatial arrangements of historic structures.

Mount Rainier National Park

Paradise Trails Orientation: 4th Crossing Trailhead
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The 4th Crossing Trailhead starts from the Paradise Valley Road and connects to the Skyline Trail.

Surveillance and Control on a Plantation Landscape
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Archeology at L’Hermitage, a former plantation on the grounds of Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, revealed several 18th and 19th century slave quarters. These dwellings were spaced and oriented to expose the careful planning and focus on order and symmetry on the part of the slaveholders, aimed at promoting supervision, control, and function over the lives and work of enslaved people.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Lake View Visitor Center
  • Type: Place

Start your visit here! Get oriented to the park, explore two floors of exhibits and watch the park film, "Black Friday."

Fort Donelson National Battlefield

Fort Donelson NB Visitor Center
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One of the surviving Mission-66 visitor centers is undergoing a renovation, so you will find orientation in our current Visitor Center. Friendly staff, Civil War exhibits, the Passport to Your Parks stamps, Junior Ranger Handbooks, and a gift shop are available. One handicapped accessible restroom is located here. The Education Pavilion nearby is also stocked with information and Junior Ranger Handbooks.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Orientation Panel waysides
  • Type: Place

At the entrance to the visitor center are five upright orientation panels along a curved stone wall. The panels provide photographs, maps, text and a chart of information on park amenities, exploring Bryce canyon, the hiking trails, the Bryce Amphitheater, and Junior Ranger activities.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Fairyland Orientation wayside
  • Type: Place

Follow this trail and discover nature’s fairyland of rock castles, cliffs, and spires. It begins with spectacular views from the rim, then continues down into the amphitheater, past fragile, towering hoodoos and cathedral walls. Changes in light create a mesmerizing, colorful palette at every turn. Look for the spur trail to Tower Bridge. Some of the named features along this loop are Boat Mesa, Sinking Ship, and Chinese Wall.