More About the Parks Around for All 100
One giant Sequoia from Sequoia National Park, designated a National Park on September 25, 1890, and one of the 35 within the NPS in 1916.
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Visitor Statistics
326,506 Visitors (1916)
National Park Service
292,800,082 Visitors (2014)
Total for 1916, 12 reporting sites; 2014, 370 reporting sites.
Park Size
80,469,370 acres (Federal);
84,479,064 acres (Total)
Park size as of the end of 2014
Park Fees
Vary from park to park.
Photo above: Visitors on horseback on the Glacier Point Trail, looking toward Yosemite Falls. Circa 1901. Photo courtesy, Library of Congress. One of the original 35, and designated as a National Park on October 1, 1890.
Even More Parks Around for All 100
Photo above: Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Park is one of the other parks around for the entire one hundred years of the National Park Service on its date of August 25, 1916, but in the War Department from July 1916 until reorganized into the Park Service in 1933. Right: Just one spectacular scene from Yellowstone National Park, the oldest National Park.
National Park Service 100th Anniversary
- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NPS 100th Events
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace 100th Events
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP will be finalizing their 2016 events soon. For now, there are a few 2016 events on the calendar that may be considered part of the National Park Service's 100th Anniversary celebrations. Stop back for more info on time and place when they become available.
2016 Events
Centennial of the Park
Date/Time: July 16-17, Various.
Location: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP.
Event: The park will host a weekend event to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the park's existence. Living historians portraying four Presidents - Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower - who visited the park in the past as well as Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln Farm Association Board member Samuel Clemens will be in attendance. Events will be held throughout the weekend with the main event being held on Saturday, July 16 at 1:00 P.M. EDT.
Centennial of the National Park Service
Date/Time: August 27-28, Various
Location: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHP.
Event: The park will host an event to observe the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Living historian portraying President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Organic Act that created the National Park Service, and the park's Enabling Legislation will be on hand to meet and talk with visitors. A re-enactment of the signing of the park's Enabling Legislation and Organic Act will be held beginning at 2:00 P.M. EDT.
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Photos of 1916 Parks
Original NPS 100th Park Photos
Photo Above: Climbing party on Paradise Glacier, Mt. Rainier, circa 1915, Photo courtesy Library of Congress.
Crater Lake in historic photo from the Library of Congress.
Mesa Verde National Park.
Zion National Park poster from the National Park Service, 1938. Photo courtesy Library of Congress.
Other 1916 Parks Images
Grand Canyon National Park.
Gettysburg National Military Park. 150th anniversary walk of Pickett's Charge.
Statue of Liberty.
Lithograph of the Antietam battle at Burnside Bridge, Photo courtesy Library of Congress.
Pinnacles National Park, California.
National Park Service Links
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