The First National Park East of the Mississippi River
People have been drawn to the rugged coast of Maine throughout history. Awed by its beauty and diversity, early 20th-century visionaries donated the land that became Acadia National Park.
The oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland and Labrador is located at the most easterly point of land in North America. It has been restored to its 1839 appearance and shows how a lightkeeper and his family might have lived in the mid-19th century.
This is one your first encounters in the Yosemite Valley.
The Romans have been mining here for gold and silver for about 400 years and mining stopped here when the Romans left.
In 1855 mining was resumed, as the international demand for copper grew during the Industrial Revolution.
Canada's oldest national park, Banff National Park was established in 1885. A jewel in the Canadian Rockies 120 kilometers (80 miles) west of Calgary, Alberta.