parks

• Lowest point in America is located there

• summer temperatures exceed 120F (48c)

• Racetrack Playa

Death Valley

• Features the UK’s highest peak and deepest lake

• The park inspired Wordsworth poetry and early conservation movements

Lake District

• The worlds first national park contains half of Earth geothermal features, including the Old Faithful

• There is a volcano there

• 1872 act protecting it created a global model

Yellowstone

• Welsh park with abandoned slate mines and railways

• The parks waterfalls inspired Turner’s paintings

• There are peaks there however they are not covered with snow anymore

Snowdonia

• Americas deepest lake is located there

• Klamath tribes legends describe it’s formation

• There is a lake in a crater there

Crater lake

• Englands largest national park

• 2012 olympic biking events were held there

• Bronze Age Stone circles

• The parks name references its

  historic use as a royal game preserve

New Forest

• Some of the worlds oldest peaks are located there

• Trail of tears

• Biodiversity rivals tropical rainforests

Great Smoky Mountains

• Scotlands first national park

• Folklore includes the famous Scottish mythical creature

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs

• Virgin river flows there

• parallel canyon revels millions of years of geological history

• got its name from mormon pioneers

Zion

• Englands smallest national park

• Mary Anning made outstanding paleontological discoveries there

• The name reflects Jurassic era rock formations

Dartmoor