Identifier: nationalparkspor1917yard (find matches)
Title: The national parks portfolio
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945 United States. National Park Service
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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; to the rivers edge; one can not do both the same day. Two ardu-ous days, therefore, will give you a rapid glance at the general features. Threedays will enable you to substitute the newer Hermit Trail, with a night in thecanyon, for the Bright Angel Trail. Four or five days will enable you to seethe Grand Canyon; but after you see it you will want to live with it awhile.There are two other trails, the Bass Trail and the Grand View. The canyon should be seen first from the rim. Hours, days, may be spentin emotional contemplation of this vast abyss. Navajo Point, Grand View,Shoshone Point, El Tovar, Hopi Point, Sentinel Point, Pima Point, YumaPoint, the Hermit Rim—these are a few only of many spots of inspiration. An altogether different experience is the descent into the abyss. This isdone on mule-back over trails which zigzag steeply but safely down the cliffs. The hotels, camps, and facilities for getting around are admirable. Yoursleeper brings you to the very rim of the canyon.
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Copyright bv Fred Harvey Hopi House at El Tovar, Reproduced from an Ancient Hopi Community Dwelling THE NATIONAL PARKS AT A GLANCE Number, 17; Total Area, 9,774 Square Miles. Arranged chronologically in the order of their creation. NATIONAL PARKand Date LOCATION Hot Springs Res-ervation1832 Yellowstone 1872 YOSEMITE1890 Sequoia1890 General Grant1890 Mount Rainier Crater Lake1902 Platt1904 Mesa Verde1906 Glacier1910 Rocky Mountain1915 Hawaii1916 Lassen Volcanic1916 Mount McKinley1917 MiddleArkansas North-westernWyoming MiddleeasternCalifornia MiddleeasternCalifornia MiddleCalifornia West central Washington SouthernOregon SouthernOklahoma SouthernColorado North-westernMontana NorthernColorado Hawaii NorthernCalifornia South central Alaska AREA squaremiles 3,34s 252 324249 77534 398118 124 distinctive characteristics 46 hot springs possessing curative properties—Many hotelsand boarding houses in adjacent city of Hot Springs—Bathhouses under public control. More geysers than in all re

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