Identifier: glimpsesofournat01unit (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of our national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: United States. National Park Service Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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its own. Mount Eainier, for instance, is an extinct volcano, down the sidesof which flow 28 glaciers, or rivers of ice. Crater Lake fills with water of astonishing blue the hole left whenthe top of Mount Mazama, another volcano in the same chain asMount Eainier, was swallowed up in some far distant past. The Yosemite National Park, in addition to its celebrated Yo-semite Valley and lofty waterfalls, has in the north a river calledthe Tuolumne which spouts wheels of water 50 feet and more intothe air. It has great areas of snow-topped mountains. The Sequoia National Park contains more than a million sequoiatrees, of which 12,000 are more than 10 feet in diameter, and sometwice that and several from 25 to 36 feet through from side to side.Measure 36 feet on the sidewalk and see what that means. Some ofthese trees are older than human history. The Glacier National Park was made by the earth cracking insome far distant time and one side thrusting up and overlapping the OUR NATIONAL PARKS.
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The Highest Waterfall in the World, Yosemite National Park The Upper Yosemite Fall drops 1,430 feet sheer, nearly as high as nine Niagaraspiled one above the other. The Lower Yosemite Fall drops 320 feet. Theircombined height, including intermediate cascades and rapids, is half a mile. 8 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. other. It has cliffs several thousand feet high and more than 60glaciers feed hundreds of lakes. One lake floats icebergs all summer. The Yellowstone National Park, beside its geysers, has many hotsprings which build glistening plateaus of highly colored mineraldeposits. It has a canyon gorgeous with all the colors and shadesof the rainbow, and it is literally the greatest wild animal sanctuary. The Rocky Mountain National Park straddles the ContinentalDivide at a lofty height, with snow-capped mountains extendingfrom end to end. Its glacier records are remarkable. The Mesa Verde National Park hides in its barren canyons thewell-preserved ruins of a civilization which passed out of

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