US National Parks

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• 🌲 The United States has 63 national parks, which are protected areas operated by the Naional Park Service.
• 🌲 Total recreation visitors to the national parks in 2021: 297,115,406.
• 🌲 The first national park establised was Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
• 🌲 Three of the 10 highest waterfalls in the world are located in Yosemite National Park in California.
• 🌲 California's Sequoia National Park is home to the largest living single-stem tree in the world, the wonderfully named General Sherman. The tree is approximately 275 feet tall and weighs approximately 1,900 metric tons.
• 🌲 Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee has been the most-visited park since 1944, and had over 14 million visitors in 2021
• 🐱🐶 National parks welcome pets—in developed areas, on many trails and campgrounds, and in some lodging facilities.
  🏕 camp with your pets.