A Birthday Wish for America’s National Parks — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

When I was 16 years old, I went to Yosemite and fell in love with America’s national parks, so much so that I now live next to one—Acadia, in Maine. In 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) turns 100, and planning for commemorations has already begun. Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872, leading the British diplomat James Bryce in 1912 to declare national parks “the best idea America ever had.”

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