While most of us play in our vast system of 63 national parks, others work there. Today, on National Park Service Founders Day, we recognize their efforts and the priceless gift of our country"s national parks. The NPS protects and maintains these parks as well as hundreds of national monuments and other natural, historical, and recreational properties. They include some of our most stunning natural landscapes, like North Cascades National Park in Washington state, featured here. This image, of the Triplets and Cascade Peak, is taken from atop Forbidden Peak.
National Park Service Founders Day
Today in History
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
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Maritime forest on Cumberland Island, Georgia
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Superbloom in Carrizo Plain National Monument, California
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Fall comes to the Last Frontier
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Paleontology meets art
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Bridge over the River Tara
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’Chess on ice’
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Hyalite Creek at Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana
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Hoisting a flag for seafarers
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Languid life on the Lakes
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National Bird Day
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Happy birthday to the Peak!
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The Zugspitze: Germany s highest point
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The desert blooms
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Rock formations at Sedona, Arizona
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Holidays in the Venetian Lagoon
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A day to take a moment
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Earth Day
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Fibonacci Day
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Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska
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