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Death Valley National Park: California: $30 per-vehicle Nevada: Devils Postpile National Monument: California: $8 per-person fee for daily use of shuttle; other types of passes and limited vehicle access exist Joshua Tree National Park: California: $30 per-vehicle Kings Canyon National Park: California: $35 per-vehicle
The park was established on September 25, 1890 to protect over 400,000 acres (1,600 km 2) of mountainous forest wilderness and became a national park at the same time the National Park Service was founded on August 25, 1916; [56] today the park protects 629 square miles (1,630 km 2).
1984 (8th Session) Yosemite National Park ( / joʊˈsɛmɪti / yoh-SEM-ih-tee [5]) is a national park in California. [6] [7] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km 2) [3] in four ...
The state with the most national parks is California with nine, followed by Alaska with eight, Utah with five, and Colorado with four. The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2 ), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states.
A person takes a photo of giant sequoia trees in Grant Grove on February 19, 2023 in Kings Canyon National Park.
Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km 2) [2] of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains ...
Painted Dunes and Fantastic Lava Beds as seen from the edge of Cinder Cone's crater. Lassen Volcanic National Park is an American national park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak, the largest plug dome volcano in the world and the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range. [ 3]
Website. www .cagreatamerica .com. California's Great America, or simply Great America and abbreviated CGA, is a 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [ 1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation.