Since its founding on August 25, 1916, the U.S. National Park Service has assembled 419 protected units, of which 62 hold the ...

More than 300 million visitors explored America’s national parks last year ... on Rialto Beach near the natural landmark, Hole-in-the-Wall. Sea and mountains meet at Acadia National Park ...

This is also the case with the new National Geographic National Parks app ... The main window contains a beautifully styled photo wall of all parks to choose from or alternatively a map (with fluent ...

Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor ... We adhere to this long-held mission by creating the world’s best wall maps, outdoor recreation maps, travel maps, atlases ...

This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The seashore is now one of the first national parks in the country to explicitly address—and accept—the ...