Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1917 — The National Parks. [ARTICLE]

The National Parks.

Every person living in the United States ought to know more about the national parks and ought to visit them. Considered together, they contain more features of conspicuous grandeur than are readily accessible in all the rest of the world, while considered individually they equal, if they do not excel the most celebrated scenic places abroad. There are, for instance, some geysers In Yellowstone park larger than can be found anywhere else on the globe, the nearest approach being the geysers of Iceland and far-off New Zealand. There is no other valley so strikingly beautiful as Yosemite, and nowhere else can be found a canyon of such size and marvelous coloring as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. In the Sequoia National park grow trees so huge and old that, none elsewhere compares with them. One of the striking features of the eight greater national parks of our country is that each one of them is quite different from the others; each has marked peculiarities of its own.— Kathleen Hills, in Leslie’s Magazine.