The Great Ride of Our Parks
Highline Autos Highline Autos Yellowstone Bus- photo Museum of the Rockies Grand Canyon Railway GreatGarages Crater Lake National Park Lodge Our National Parks at 100: What a Ride! by David M. Brown This year, our National Park Service (NPS) is celebrating The Boats of Crater Lake its Centennial, and what a ride, and rides, it has been for the Approximately 500,000 visitors enjoy Crater Lake millions of visitors who have enjoyed them: on horse, by National Park annually, including driving the 33-mile Rim stagecoach, car, carriage, bus and boat. Drive around the spectacular lake, the deepest in the United President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park States at 1,943 feet. The deep-blue waters, considered the Service Act on August 25, 1916. At the time, the Department world’s cleanest body of water, fill a caldera scooped out 7,700 of Interior was overseeing 14 national parks, 21 national years ago when volcanic 12,000-foot Mount Mazama col- monuments and Native American reservation sites at Hot lapsed. Similarly, near the southwest shore, Wizard Island is Springs, Arkansas, and the Casa Grande Ruins, Arizona. But, a cinder cone on a platform built after the climactic eruption. disorganization was creating many challenges. Private watercraft have never been permitted on Crater Crater Lake: the deepest in the U.S.- photo Susan Manganiello The Boats of Crater Lake The NPS was, therefore, established, “to conserve the Lake since its now 183,000 acres were placed under federal scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life protection in 1902 as a national park.
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