National Parks

Yellowstone

This year's calendar features a national park for each month. Of the 12 pictured, I have been to just two.

The National Park Service, whose job it is to protect and preserve these national treasures, will celebrate its centennial in 2016.

Yellowstone (pictured at left) was our first national park and is widely considered to have been the first in the world. President Grant established it as a national park in 1872.

Zion National Park

 Zion National Park (pictured at right), located in Utah, was established as a national park in 1919.

I will be posting January's entry in a day or so.