National Parks, Monuments and Trails in the United States by Andy Seamans on Creators.com

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National Parks, Monuments and Trails in the United States

1. This famous rock formation was featured in the 1977 movie, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." It also has another distinction within the National Parks system. Name both the location and why it is special within the National Park Service.

2. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, Calif., have been a source of many finds for natural scientists. What caused this natural wonder?

3. There are two petrified forests located in southern Montana, which are distinctly different from the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Name the distinction.

4. What caused the standing petrified forests in southern Montana?

5. This National Historic Site, located in Cambridge, Mass., served as headquarters for General George Washington during the Siege of Boston, July 1775 - April 1776, and it also served as home for a famous American poet and scholar for nearly half a century. Name both the scholar and the site.

6. When completed, this national scenic trail will be the longest continuous hiking trail in the United States. Can you name both the trail and the states through which it will run?

7. The National Park Service manages 58 of our nation's national parks. Name the top three states that have the highest number of NPS managed parks within their state boundaries.

8. Although all natural park areas can be inherently dangerous due to natural predators, plant life and terrain, for many reasons the Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona has been ranked the most dangerous based upon a survey of National Park Rangers.

Can you name the most common reason why?

9. National parks and recreation areas are popular for Hollywood movie and television locations. This national recreation area in California was used for some scenes in the popular television series M*A*S*H. Can you name the location?

10. This national park, located in California, is one of the newest national parks in the system. It is also the title of a U2 album from 1987.

Answers

1. Devils Tower. It is the United States' first national monument.

2. The tar pits are the result of subterranean crude oil seeping upward where it evaporated leaving behind a pond of natural asphalt. Animals trapped in this were preserved for latter-day study by natural scientists.

3. The Petrified Forest in Arizona is not a forest per se, but the trunks of trees washed from other areas. While the forests in southern Montana contain standing trees.

4. Volcanic eruptions that engulfed and preserved the charred trees with their outpouring of lava.

5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Not surprisingly, the building is known as the Longfellow House —Washington's Headquarters.

6. The North Country National Scenic Trail will run through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota.

7. Alaska (8), California (8) and Utah (5).

8. Organ Pipe National Monument is one of the five national parks and monuments along the U.S.-Mexican border, and it is known for drug smugglers entering the United States from Mexico.

9. Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

10. Joshua Tree.

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