Tag: “National Parks”
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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone is America's first national park. The park covers 3,472 square miles in the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
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Jasper National Park
Jasper National Park is located in the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta, Canada. It's a place of great natural beauty with snowcapped mountains, glaciers, and beautiful lakes.
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Bandipur National Park
Bandipur National Park is one of India's best known sanctuaries, and is an important Project Tiger reserve. It is located in the Chamarajanagar district of southern Karnataka in south India
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Tongariro National Park
Tongariro National Park was established in 1887 and was New Zealand's first national park. It has offers great hiking in summer and skiing in winter.
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Cub Scouts Journey to the Edge
An unexpected meeting of a cub scout troop leads to a fun adventure on the rocks.
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Lake Crescent, WA
A long crescent-shaped lake along Route 101 on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Lake Crescent is surrounded by hiking trails for all abilities and is close to the snow-capped mountains, rain forests and hot springs of Olympic National Park
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Bwindi National Park
Home to the mountain gorillas on the Ugandan side of the Virunga Mountains, but also the main village of the pygmies of the Impenetrable Rainforest. Bwindi isn't much, a frontier town blooming with the small amounts of cash left by the rich tourists who trickle through.
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Cabrillo National Park
Cabrillo National Park offers amazing views of the Pacific Ocean, especially during sunset.
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National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido"
The National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" is situated in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees at Huesca, Aragón.
Declared a National Park in 1918 by a Royal Decree, this IUCN Category II National Park becomes every year meeting point for mountaineers and
families around Europe and even overseas.
Today it has 156 km² and it's included in the Biosphere Reserve of "Ordesa-Viñamala" declared by UNESCO in 1997.
Its orography is dominated by the calcareous mass (the biggest of Europe) of the massiff of the Three "Sorores", "Treserols", whose greater elevation is the "Monte Perdido" (3355m), from which in a more or less radial form descend a series of impressive mountainous crests and glacial valleys beeing the most characteristic the "Ordesa Canyon (or Valley)".
In the French territory it's called "Pyrenees" National Park and it shares with Spain wonderful places like the "Circus of Gavarnie" (a glacial cirque with the highest waterfall in Europe with more than 400 meters of vertical fall) or the impressive "Brecha de Rolando -Brèche de Roland in french-" a natural gap, 40m across and 100m high at an altitude of 2804m. -
Natinal Park Palenque
Palenque is a national park (Spanish: parque nacional Palenque) in the state of Chiapas in Mexico well known for its famous mayan pyramids.
