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Chesapeake Bay
Menokin
- Type: Place
Explore Menokin, a National Historic Landmark where history, architecture, and conservation meet. See the 1769 home of Francis Lightfoot Lee, witness innovative preservation in action, and walk trails through a protected Chesapeake Bay watershed landscape. Engage with exhibits, hands-on activities, and the powerful stories of those who shaped this place. Paddle Cat Point Creek, connect with nature, and uncover the past in a truly unique setting.
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
Visitor Contact Station Kaloko Honokohau
- Type: Place
The landscape between the two waysides is filled with dark volcanic rock and low green and tan vegetation.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
A Rollicking Past
- Type: Place
VIEW FROM THE WAYSIDE: This wayside is in a small offshoot off the main boardwalk. The offshoot is surrounded by 3 to 4 foot tall scrubby bushes. Directly overlooking the wayside, the flat, scrubby grassland can be seen in the distance. Behind where you are standing are two benches, both facing the flat grassland. Turning to face the benches, the vast expanse of the rolling hillside can be seen in the distance.
- Type: Article
At night, birds use the stars to find their way. But bright lights from buildings can confuse them. That's why national parks are so important - they're like bird hotels! They give birds safe places to rest and eat, especially after flying across the ocean.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw
- Type: Place
The historic Carnegie Museum.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Painesdale Mine and Shaft
- Type: Place
Visit Painesdale Mine and Shaft.
Colorado National Monument
No Thoroughfare Canyon Trail (Colorado National Monument)
- Type: Place
No Thoroughfare Canyon Trail in Colorado National Monument travels through the most remote canyon along an unmaintained backcountry trail. Share your hiking plan with a reliable friend who is not going with you. Trail is not maintained between second waterfall (seasonal) and upper trailhead.
Capitol Reef National Park
Scenic Drive Stop 5
- Type: Place
What are those long black streaks striping the cliff walls?
- Type: Place
Step aboard Pride II, a reproduction Baltimore Clipper, and sail into the Chesapeake’s maritime past. Explore its history from privateering in the War of 1812 to life on the Bay today. Tour the deck or set sail for a hands-on adventure! As part of the NPS Chesapeake Gateways, Pride II offers a unique way to experience the Bay’s seafaring heritage.
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.
Point Reyes National Seashore
Researchers Complete First Season of Point Reyes Mountain Beaver Habitat Surveys
- Type: Article
The Point Reyes mountain beaver—a primitive rodent that isn’t a beaver—is a sort of mythical creature at Point Reyes National Seashore. Almost no one has seen one in-person with their own eyes. Not even National Park Service Wildlife Biologists Taylor Ellis and Matt Lau, who just completed their first season of surveys as a part of a 2-year mountain beaver habitat modeling project in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Still, the survey season was a great success.
- Type: Person
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.
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Plants Exhibit
- Type: Place
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Trinity Site, NM
- Type: Place
On July 16, 1945, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the world’s first atomic device, known as “the Gadget,” at 5:29 am Mountain War Time. The US Army conducted the test at the Trinity Site in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 210 miles (337 km) south of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today the Trinity Site is part of the White Sands Missile Range and can only be visited during a Trinity Site Open House, typically hosted twice a year.
Capitol Reef National Park
Pioneer Register
- Type: Place
Take a short hike in Capitol Gorge to see the historic Pioneer Register where early explorers and pioneers carved their names into the cliff wall. It is illegal to deface, vandalize, or add your own name to the Register.
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
William Moultrie
- Type: Person
William Moultrie's 2nd South Carolina Regiment successfully defended Charleston Harbor from the Royal Navy in the Battle of Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776. This Patriot victory marked the beginning of a meteoric rise for Moultrie as he achieved the rank of general and later served South Carolina as governor.
Grand Teton National Park
Historic Comfort Station
- Type: Place
During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed this comfort station for the Jenny Lake Campground. After sitting idle for more than 30 years, the building now serves campers once again.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Wayside: Where is the Sleeping Bear and Welcome to Sleeping Bear Dunes
- Type: Place
- Type: Article
When the howling started in predawn darkness, natural sound recordist Jacob Job signaled to his research assistant to stop. Wolves. Cold and crouched in snow in the remote backcountry of the park with microphones and recording gear to the ready, the Colorado State University (CSU) scientists waited and listened. Silence. Then … the stealthy sound of crunching footsteps approaching.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Gertrude Quinn Slattery
- Type: Person
Gertrude Quinn was a young survivor of the Johnstown Flood.