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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Mound City Group

• Type: Place

Mound City Group is the smallest of the Hopewell sites in Ross County, but it very well may contain the largest stories of this remarkable culture. The site is home to the park's only visitor center. Grounds are open every day from dawn to dusk while the visitor center building maintains regular hours of operation.

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park

Thoburn's Redoubt

• Type: Place

The Confederate surprise attack in the pre-dawn fog of October 19, 1864 struck here against the 8th Corps first, then drove the rest of the Federal troops from their camps around Belle Grove Plantation.

Series: National Fossil Day Logo and Artwork – Prehistoric Life Illustrated

• Type: Article

Celebrate the wonderful diversity of fossils!

Fossils of the 2025 National Fossil Day Artwork

• Type: Article

The 2025 National Fossil Day Artwork features a 29-million-year-old Oligocene assemblage of plants and animals from the Turtle Cove Member of the John Day Formation, inspired by new and old discoveries made at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Prairie Restoration Underway at Rancho Corral de Tierra

• Type: Article

Work on the Montara Prairie Renewal Project began in Fall 2024. The restoration project aims to protect and enhance coastal grasslands in the Montara Parcel of Rancho Corral de Tierra. We have already completed pre-restoration monitoring, and removal of several acres of invasive shrubs and conifers within historic grassland footprints.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Wahweap Overlook

• Type: Place

A short journey from the Carl Hayden Visitor Center, you will find the Wahweap Overlook. This high point offers a 360-degree panorama of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. It is a “must see” at anytime of day, however, sunrise and sunset adds a fusion of brilliant color to this awe-inspiring scene. There is a shade shelter and a bench for your viewing comfort. The overlook is open from sunrise to sunset.

Wildland Fire Program

Increasing decision space for Agency Administrators with fuels work

• Type: Article

Pre-identified management actions, reduced fuels near values at risk (through both fuels treatments and management of wildfires for resource benefits), and close coordination between fire managers and Agency Administrators (AAs) assists AAs in having increased decision space to meet land management objectives in the event of a wildfire in one of our national parks.

Great Basin National Park

Strawberry Creek Birds, Pre- and Post Fire

• Type: Article

How do bird populations fare after a large wild-fire? In Strawberry Creek we have seen a slight shift in species composition for both montane riparian and mountain shrub habitats.

Yellowstone National Park

Hayden Valley (Overlook at Yellowstone River)

• Type: Place

Homestead National Historical Park

Making Rope, wayside exhibit

• Type: Place

Tool to make rope along with informational panel.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Craggy Gardens CCC Shelter

• Type: Place

The Craggy Gardens Trail Shelter is a relaxing spot at the high point of the Craggy Gardens Trail with amazing views from the adjacent meadow bald and chances to see a wide array of blooming flowers from spring to late fall. The shelter is also a historic CCC structure that pre-dates the Parkway and stands as a reminder of our past.

Grand Canyon National Park

Tusayan Pueblo Site and Self-Guiding Trail

• Type: Place

The Tusayan Pueblo site and self-guiding trail are CLOSED - SEASON OVER. Located 3 miles (4.8km) west of Desert View Watchtower, the site is a small Ancestral Puebloan village showing the outlines of rooms and a round kiva. Visitors can walk a relatively flat 0.1 mile (200 m) self-guiding trail around the site. The adjacent museum is CLOSED until further notice.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Kijik Archeological District National Historic Landmark

• Type: Place

The Kijik Archeological District, on the Shore of Lake Clark, comprises an extensive former village of Dena'ina Athabascans, dating from pre-European contact to the abandonment of Kijik village ca. 1910.

Anangula National Historic Landmark

• Type: Place

The south coast people living from the Aleutians to Prince William Sound, were skilled kayakers and sea hunters. Anangula Site is one of the areas associated with South Coast Sea Hunters.

Wales Sites National Historic Landmark

• Type: Place

Some of the oldest continuously occupied villages in Alaska are along the northwestern and northern coast, where whales, seals, walrus, and caribou have made it possible for people to live in the arctic. Wales Site is an associated site.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Huffman Prairie Interpretive Center

• Type: Place

The Huffman Prairie Interpretive Center is one of two visitor centers operated by the park in Dayton, Ohio. This center is located northeast of downtown Dayton, next to the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the National Museum of the Air Force.

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

Mosca Pass

• Type: Place

Just above the dunefield are woodlands of pinon and ponderosa pine, and subalpine aspen and conifer forests. The easiest hiking access to forest in the national park is in Mosca Pass, on the Montville Nature Trail and Mosca Pass Trail. On these trails, you are walking in the footsteps of Pleistocene mammoth hunters, indigenous tribes, diverse settlers, American explorers, and 19th century African American Buffalo Soldiers.

Shiloh National Military Park

Orientation Shelter - Tour Stop #1

• Type: Place

Shiloh Indian Mounds Shelter and trailhead.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Wheat Church

• Type: Place

The Wheat Church, or George Jones Memorial Baptist church, was a centerpiece of the Wheat community, which ultimately became the site for the K-25 plant. The Wheat Church is the only surviving structure of the pre-Manhattan Project Wheat community. Located on a short, wooded walking trail, the church remains an example of life in the region decades before World War II.

Rock Creek Park

Prehistoric Landscapes of the Nation's Capital

• Type: Article

In 1996 and 1997, Parsons Engineering Science conducted archeological excavations of the Whitehurst Freeway Corridor for the DC Department of Public Works. Excavations at the eastern end of the roadway, near the location where Rock Creek drains into the Potomac River, yielded both prehistoric and historical archeological resources.