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June 23, 2016  

National Parks 100th Birthday, i.e., Centennial, Is Just For The ‘Park Service’ — Not Any Famous Parks.

by Anura Guruge

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Click to access “National Park Service” (NPS) 100th Birthday celebration page. They do point out correctly that this is all about the August 25, 1916 CREATION of the ‘Park Service’.

And President Obama visited 2 National Parks
 to mark the upcoming Centennial.

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Click image to access the original “Voice of America” coverage.

To be fair the National Park Service (NPS), in general, has done a good job pointing out that this 100th Birthday celebrations relate to the CREATION of the Park Service than any of the famous National Parks.

They do, however, as I have already pointed out subscribe to this — THOUGH that is wrong! Acadia only became a National Park in 1919.

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Here is an extract from an Excel spreadsheet I created on when the
current 59 National Parks were officially established.

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Notice that Yellowstone, the first Park to be established, is now 144 years old. Yosemite & Sequoia, both of which we visited in April, are 126s old.

Yes, there are 3 Parks turning 100 this year, but they are not ‘famous’.

2019 will be THE BANNER year — with the Grand Canyon, Zion and Acadia (again).

Related posts:
++++ Search ‘Parks’ for other related posts.
 ++++ Check ‘Acadia’ tab/page at top ↑ ↑ for lots of other posts & pictures. 

by Anura Guruge

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Tags: 100 years, 100th birthday, 1916, 1919, 2016, , , August, , established, Grand Canyon, National Park, National Park Service, President Obama, Sequoia, yellowstone, Yosemite

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