Fun Fact 1
What state is home to the Great Sand Dunes National Park?
Colorado
The lake was named Lake Alamosa after the largest town in the valley. Additional sand comes from natural erosion from both the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan mountains.
Welcome to Enjoy the Parks
This website is dedicated to helping folks find parks to enjoy, whether it be in your neighborhood, your state, or almost anywhere else, eventually including parks all over the world. The focus of the website will be on the map, the Details page for each park, monument, gallery, etc. and the collected data to create all of these features.
This map goes a bit deeper than your standard map found on the web, so please check out the tutorial which should help you find the information you may be seeking. Also make sure to look for the numerous links to other sites, such as the National Park Service pages and many others.
The site recently launched on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2022, so is still very young.
(Think of this as Version 1.0 and there will be more updates to come...)
The largest Lake on the island is Siskiwit which contains Ryan Island which contains a seasonal pond called Moose Flats. Moose Boulder sits inside of the flats and when the Flats flood each season, it becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world. Isle Royale itself sits in Lake Superior which is the largest lake (by surface area) in the world!
Residing at the north end of the Floriday Keys, Biscayne NP contains four types of marine ecosystem; Coral Reefs, the Keys, the Bay, and Magrove Forest. The Maritime Heritage Trail has artifacts of human existance dating back 10,000 years. It links a number of dive sites with most of them being shipwrecks. The park is home to dolphins, turtles, pelicans as well as a number of endangered species like the American crocodile, perigrine falcon, sea turtle, and the West Indian Manatee.
Take a stroll down Bathhouse Row and the Grand Promenade and imagine what life was like when the park was first designated Hot Springs Reservation, before the time when the idea of a National park existed. In addition to the urban walks one can take, it also has 26 miles of nature trails in the surrounding Hot Springs Mountains.
