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Hint	Park	% Correct
Was the first east of the Mississippi river	Acadia	100%
Is spread across three Pacific islands	American Samoa	100%
Can be accessed by car from Pago Pago	American Samoa	100%
Was the most recent park to be established in a US territory	American Samoa	100%
Is featured on the Utah license plate	Arches	100%
Was the site of the collapse of a natural bridge in 2008	Arches	100%
Is comemmorated on Utah's America the Beautiful quarter	Arches	100%
Contains the largest protected area of the Chihuahuan Desert in the US	Big Bend	100%
Is located on a prominent large curve in the Rio Grande	Big Bend	100%
Protects the northernmost islands in the Florida Keys	Biscayne	100%
Does not protect the Key directly to its north, despite sharing a name with the island	Biscayne	100%
Protects the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers	Canyonlands	100%
Contains the desert oasis of Fruita, a Mormon pioneer town	Capitol Reef	100%
Is in New Mexico	Carlsbad Caverns	100%
Contains 119 caves, including Spider Cave, Lechuguilla Cave, and Slaughter Canyon Cave	Carlsbad Caverns	100%
Lies off the coast of Los Angeles	Channel Islands	100%
Protects the tallest American elm, swamp chestnut oak, and loblolly pine in the world	Congaree	100%
Is located in South Carolina	Congaree	100%
Is in Oregon	Crater Lake	100%
Protects the deepest lake in the US	Crater Lake	100%
Lies just south of Cleveland	Cuyahoga Valley	100%
Drains to Lake Erie	Cuyahoga Valley	100%
Contains the lowest point in North America	Death Valley	100%
Contains sailing stones, rocks which leave trails behind them as they apparently migrate across the desert	Death Valley	100%
Protects the mountain formerly known as Mt. McKinley	Denali	100%
Is commemorated on Alaska's America the Beautiful quarter	Denali	100%
Has a ranger station in Talkeetna, Alaska	Denali	100%
Protects the westernmost islands of the Florida Keys	Dry Tortugas	100%
Lies between Lake Okeechobee and the ocean	Everglades	100%
Is the least visited	Gates of the Arctic	100%
Is the northernmost	Gates of the Arctic	100%
Is in Montana	Glacier	100%
Recieves 80% of its visitors via cruise ship	Glacier Bay	100%
Is the northernmost in Arizona	Grand Canyon	100%
Is connected to Yellowstone via the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway	Grand Teton	100%
Is formed partly from lands in the Jackson Hole Valley purchased by the Rockefellers and donated to the park service	Grand Teton	100%
Is the newest Colorado national park	Great Sand Dunes	100%
Was formerly part of Hawaii National Park	Haleakala	100%
Protects the world's most massive shield volcano	Hawaii Volcanoes	100%
Is traditionally considered the sacred home of the goddess Pele	Hawaii Volcanoes	100%
Is in Arkansas	Hot Springs	100%
Borders Lake Michigan	Indiana Dunes	100%
Is in Indiana	Indiana Dunes	100%
Was previously a National Lakeshore until 2019	Indiana Dunes	100%
Is the southernmost in California	Joshua Tree	100%
Is the southernmost in Alaska	Katmai	100%
Is the most extensively glaciated, with over 50% of the park covered by ice	Kenai Fjords	100%
Borders Sequoia National Park, making this the only pair of US national parks to border each other	Kings Canyon	100%
Contains the General Grant tree, the second largest sequoia on earth	Kings Canyon	100%
Protects the upstream habitat of the largest remaining sockeye salmon fishery in the world	Lake Clark	100%
Protects landmarks including Sulfur Works, Cinder Cone, and the Fantastic Lava Beds	Lassen Volcanic	100%
Formerly allowed visitors on the Echo River tour, a boat ride on an underground river	Mammoth Cave	100%
Contains the famous Cliff Palace	Mesa Verde	100%
Was the first to be dedicated in Colorado	Mesa Verde	100%
Was a major cultural center for ancestral Puebloan natives, and possibly the site of the first domestication of corn	Mesa Verde	100%
Is the smallest in Washington	Mount Rainier	100%
Borders two British Columbia provincial parks: Chilliwack Lake and Skagit Valley	North Cascades	100%
Is the least-visited in Washington	North Cascades	100%
Contains two discontinuous units- one on the Pacific coast, and one further inland	Olympic	100%
Was formerly designated as Mount Olympus National Monument	Olympic	100%
Contains the Painted Desert, a colorful badlands ecosystem	Petrified Forest	100%
Contains a rich fossil bed, including nine species of now-extinct triassic trees	Petrified Forest	100%
Protects striking stone needles left by the Neenach	Pinnacles	100%
Was the filming location for scenes on the forest moon of Endor, in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi	Redwood	100%
Is the largest in Colorado	Rocky Mountain	100%
Contains Trail Ridge Road, the highest-elevation paved road in the country	Rocky Mountain	100%
Contains the Sonoran Desert Museum	Saguaro	100%
Contains the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on earth	Sequoia	100%
Is in North Dakota	Theodore Roosevelt	100%
Is less than one mile from the nearest British territory	Virgin Islands	100%
Was the first cave in the world to be designated a national park	Wind Cave	100%
Is named for two major mountains	Wrangell- St. Elias	100%
Was the first National Park	Yellowstone	100%
Lies atop America's largest subterranean supervolcano	Yellowstone	100%
Protects Half Dome, a 4,800-foot granite dome	Yosemite	100%
Contains Angel's Landing, one of the deadliest trails in the National Park System	Zion	100%
Contains a large canyon eroded by the Virgin River	Zion	100%
Disallows private vehicles, instead making use of a shuttle system that travels up and down the canyon	Zion	100%
Contains land both east and west of the Mississippi River	Gateway Arch	67%
Along with Alberta's Waterton Lakes National Park, was designated the world's first International Peace Park	Glacier	67%
Contains the highest peak in the Teton range	Grand Teton	67%
Became a national park under the California Desert Protection Act	Joshua Tree	67%
Protects mountains in both the Alaskan and Aleutian ranges	Lake Clark	67%
Contains the Hoh Rainforest, the wettest place in the contiguous US	Olympic	67%
Is in Minnesota	Voyageurs	67%
Borders the Pine Ridge reservation	Badlands	50%
Contains one of the most difficult whitewater kayaking runs in Colorado	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	50%
Was originally designated as a national monument under the administration of Zion National Park	Capitol Reef	50%
Protects a network of caves in the Chihuahuan Desert	Carlsbad Caverns	50%
Is home to over 400,000 Mexican free-tailed bats	Carlsbad Caverns	50%
Has only three endemic mammals, the deer mouse, spotted skunk, and island fox	Channel Islands	50%
Formerly known as Jefferson Expansion National Memorial	Gateway Arch	50%
Contains glaciers which have retreated almost 50 miles since their discovery by George Vancouver	Glacier Bay	50%
Is the most visited	Great Smoky Mountains	50%
Contains the largest glacier in the contiguous US	Mount Rainier	50%
Is the most recent California park	Pinnacles	50%
Is the northern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway	Shenandoah	50%
Protects hundreds of lakes, including the 60-mile-long Rainy Lake	Voyageurs	50%
Is the largest in the US	Wrangell- St. Elias	50%
Contains America's largest glacier system, including the 127-mile-long Bagley Icefield	Wrangell- St. Elias	50%
Is named for sulfur-colored rock	Yellowstone	50%
Is indirectly named for one of the hills of Jerusalem	Zion	50%
Contains Medano Creek, a seasonal stream that forms the division between subalpine forest and high desert ecosystems	Great Sand Dunes	25%
Is first alphabetically	Acadia	0%
Protects Mount Desert Island	Acadia	0%
Is named for a former French colony in the Northeast	Acadia	0%
Is located in Maine	Acadia	0%
Is furthest west	American Samoa	0%
Protects Mount Alava, the Maugaloa ridge, and nearby Amalau valley	American Samoa	0%
Protects the notable features of Balanced Rock and Devils Garden	Arches	0%
Protects the longest natural bridge in North America	Arches	0%
Is co-managed with the Ogalala Lakota tribe	Badlands	0%
Was the site at which Dances with Wolves was filmed	Badlands	0%
Is known to the Lakota as "Mako Sica"	Badlands	0%
Contains South Dakota's richest fossil bed, one of the highest-density beds in the world	Badlands	0%
Is bordered by the Mexican Parque Nacional Cañon de Santa Elena, located on the south side of the Rio Grande	Big Bend	0%
Was originally designated as Texas Canyons State Park	Big Bend	0%
Contains Casa Grande Peak, the place in the contiguous US with the least light pollution	Big Bend	0%
Is located within sight of Miami	Biscayne	0%
Contains more protected ocean waters than any other park in the contiguous US	Biscayne	0%
Protects Elliot Key and Old Rhodes Key	Biscayne	0%
Protects a 11-mile stretch of the Gunnison River	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	0%
Is the smallest in Colorado	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	0%
Is bordered upstream by Curecanti National Recreation Area, and downstream by the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	0%
Has the most words in its name	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	0%
Has "black" in its name because sunlight reaches the bottom of the gorge for only 33 minutes a day	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	0%
Is named after a Mormon pioneer who first settled the area	Bryce Canyon	0%
Is the smallest in Utah	Bryce Canyon	0%
Is home to the densest concentration of hoodoos in the world	Bryce Canyon	0%
Is bordered to the south by the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument	Bryce Canyon	0%
Contains the Sunset and Sunrise viewpoints, which overlook the natural amphitheater below	Bryce Canyon	0%
Includes the Needles and Maze district, as well as the Horseshoe Canyon unit	Canyonlands	0%
Contains the White Rim trail, a 71-mile route overlooking the Colorado River	Canyonlands	0%
Is the largest in Utah	Canyonlands	0%
Contains the Island in the Sky district, the most visited part of the park just southeast of Moab	Canyonlands	0%
Is named for white rock domes that resemble the Capitol building	Capitol Reef	0%
Is bordered to the west by the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument	Capitol Reef	0%
Protects a 70-mile stretch of cliffs called the Waterpocket Fold	Capitol Reef	0%
Contains the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District, an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert	Carlsbad Caverns	0%
Protects a 5-island archipelago in the Pacific Ocean	Channel Islands	0%
Includes Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands	Channel Islands	0%
Has visitor centers in Ventura and Santa Barbara	Channel Islands	0%
Shares a name with the river that forms the southern border of the park	Congaree	0%
Protects the largest area of middle Atlantic old growth forest left in the US	Congaree	0%
Contains the boardwalk loop trail, which helps preserve te delicate floodplain bottomlands	Congaree	0%
Contains Wizard Island, the "volcano within a volcano"	Crater Lake	0%
Contains Rim Drive, a popular auto route that circles the caldera of Mount Mazama	Crater Lake	0%
Contains the Old Man of the Lake, a hemlock tree that has been floating vertically in this lake for over a century	Crater Lake	0%
Is sacred to the Klamath people, whose oral history describes the collapse of a Cascades volcano that formed the park as we know it	Crater Lake	0%
Protects a river famous for catching on fire due to extreme pollution	Cuyahoga Valley	0%
Contains the former site of the Richfield Coliseum, which was demolished in 1999	Cuyahoga Valley	0%
Was the first park to be designated in the 21st century	Cuyahoga Valley	0%
Spans two western states	Death Valley	0%
Is the largest in the contiguous US	Death Valley	0%
Is the hottest place in the US	Death Valley	0%
Contains the highest point in North America	Denali	0%
Means "the high one" in Athabaskan	Denali	0%
Contains Fort Monroe, the largest brick structure in the Western Hemisphere	Dry Tortugas	0%
Is the only national park in Florida inaccessible by car	Dry Tortugas	0%
Was so named after Ponce de León caught 160 sea turtles on the islands	Dry Tortugas	0%
Contains the third-largest fort in America, located on Garden Key	Dry Tortugas	0%
Contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Americas	Everglades	0%
Protects the largest tropical wilderness in the US	Everglades	0%
Is the largest east of the Mississippi River	Everglades	0%
Is comemmorated on Florida's America the Beautiful quarter	Everglades	0%
Contains the Alatna, Noatak, and Koyukuk Rivers	Gates of the Arctic	0%
Borders Noatak National Preserve to the east	Gates of the Arctic	0%
Has exactly four words in its name	Gates of the Arctic	0%
Is in Misourri	Gateway Arch	0%
Is the smallest in the US	Gateway Arch	0%
Contains the world's tallest arch	Gateway Arch	0%
Contains the Going-to-the-Sun road, one of the most expensive stretches of road in the United States	Glacier	0%
Has the mountain goat as the official park symbol	Glacier	0%
Contains Triple Divide peak, the only point from which precipitation can flow to Hudson Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean	Glacier	0%
Is the easternmost in Alaska	Glacier Bay	0%
Borders British Columbia's Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park and the Yukon's Kluane National Park	Glacier Bay	0%
Is the closest to Juneau	Glacier Bay	0%
Is the furthest downstream of the parks on the Colorado River	Grand Canyon	0%
Is comemmorated on Arizona's America the Beautiful quarter	Grand Canyon	0%
Borders the Lake Mead and Glen Canyon National Recreation Areas	Grand Canyon	0%
Was first fully traversed by boat by John Wesley Powell in 1869	Grand Canyon	0%
Shares a name with it's highest peak, first summited by native Americans as evidenced by a man-made structure called The Enclosure near the summit	Grand Teton	0%
Contains the second-highest peak in Wyoming	Grand Teton	0%
Is in Nevada	Great Basin	0%
Once held the world's oldest tree, a 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine	Great Basin	0%
Does not drain to the ocean	Great Basin	0%
Protects Wheeler Peak and the Lehman Caves at its base	Great Basin	0%
Was originally designated as Lehman Caves National Monument	Great Basin	0%
Contains the tallest sand dunes in North America	Great Sand Dunes	0%
Is the only National Park in the contiguous US to border a National Preserve of the same name	Great Sand Dunes	0%
Protects peaks in the Sangre de Christo range as well as the adjacent San Luis Valley	Great Sand Dunes	0%
Spans two states and includes the Appalachian Trail	Great Smoky Mountains	0%
Protects the tallest tree east of the Mississippi River	Great Smoky Mountains	0%
Is at the opposite end of the Blue Ridge Parkway from Shenandoah National Park	Great Smoky Mountains	0%
Contains Grotto, Rainbow, and Laurel waterfalls	Great Smoky Mountains	0%
Contains the highest point in Texas	Guadelupe Mountains	0%
Contains El Capitan Mountain, but isn't Yosemite	Guadelupe Mountains	0%
Borders New Mexico	Guadelupe Mountains	0%
Contains the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef	Guadelupe Mountains	0%
Was the former home of the Mescalero Apaches, before military action drove them onto reservations	Guadelupe Mountains	0%
Means "House of the Sun" in the local native language	Haleakala	0%
Contains the world's shortest ascent by road from sea level to 10,000 feet	Haleakala	0%
Whose population of nene went extinct until reintroduction by boy scouts in 1946	Haleakala	0%
Has the greatest difference in altitude of visitor centers, with one almost ten thousand feet higher than another	Haleakala	0%
Contains Kilauea Volcano	Hawaii Volcanoes	0%
Was temporarily closed in 2018 due to volcano damage	Hawaii Volcanoes	0%
Contains the scenic Chain of Craters road	Hawaii Volcanoes	0%
Was the smallest park until 2018	Hot Springs	0%
Was the first parcel of land preserved by the US government for recreational purposes, in 1832	Hot Springs	0%
Was the first to be commemmorated in the America the Beautiful quarter series	Hot Springs	0%
Is managed to preserve the flow of 143-degree waters from the Ouachita Mountains	Hot Springs	0%
Is abutted on the northeast and southwest ends by significant ports and industrial areas	Indiana Dunes	0%
Lies less than ten miles from the city of Gary	Indiana Dunes	0%
Is the only park to routinely close every winter	Isle Royale	0%
Was at one point home to one of the last two remaining wolf populations in the US	Isle Royale	0%
Protects the largest island in Lake Superior	Isle Royale	0%
Is the least visited in the contiguous US	Isle Royale	0%
Is part of Keweenaw county, despite actually being closer to Cook County, Minnesota	Isle Royale	0%
Is named for the largest species of yucca	Joshua Tree	0%
Protects a section of both the Mojave and Colorado deserts	Joshua Tree	0%
Contains the 49 palms oasis	Joshua Tree	0%
Protects the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes	Katmai	0%
Is located on the Alaska Peninsula	Katmai	0%
Protects the headwaters of Alagnak River	Katmai	0%
Is named for the Aleutian volcano it protects	Katmai	0%
Was the first park damaged by the Exxon Valdez spill	Katmai	0%
Contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest in the US	Kenai Fjords	0%
Is just west of Seward, Alaska	Kenai Fjords	0%
Protects a number of glacially-carved inlets, including Nuka Bay, Harris Bay, and Aialik Bay	Kenai Fjords	0%
Protects more miles of ocean coastline than any other national park	Kenai Fjords	0%
Was originally designated as General Grant National Park, the fourth in the US	Kings Canyon	0%
Was the proposed site of a major Los Angeles hydrolectric dam prior to being protected as a National Park	Kings Canyon	0%
Is the least visited of the national parks that protect the Sierra Nevada range	Kings Canyon	0%
Protects two major volcanos, Mount Redoubt and Mount Iliamna	Lake Clark	0%
Contains five permanent settlements, populated mostly by native Dena'ina Athabaskans	Lake Clark	0%
Contains a volcano which erupted in 2009, and is known for belching ash that disrupts transpacific flights	Lake Clark	0%
Contains the southernmost volcano of the Cascades	Lassen Volcanic	0%
Is located in a California county that shares its name	Lassen Volcanic	0%
Contains Bumpass Hell Trail, a boardwalk through a colorful hydrothermal basin	Lassen Volcanic	0%
Now contains land originally designated as Cinder Cone National Monument	Lassen Volcanic	0%
Is located in Kentucky	Mammoth Cave	0%
Protects the longest known cave in the world	Mammoth Cave	0%
Contains the Frozen Niagara, a famous limestone formation	Mammoth Cave	0%
Was first extensively explored and mapped by Stephen Bishop, an african-american slave	Mammoth Cave	0%
Is the largest archaeological preserve in the US	Mesa Verde	0%
Contains the first museum built in the National Park System, which nearly burned down in the Long Mesa fire of 2002	Mesa Verde	0%
Contains the Wonderland Trail, which circumnavigates the mountain at the center of this park	Mount Rainier	0%
Contains the highest point in the Cascades	Mount Rainier	0%
Includes Paradise Visitor Center which is the snowiest measured place on earth	Mount Rainier	0%
Contains the ghost town of Boundary, a former railroad camp along the US-Canada border	North Cascades	0%
Borders Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas	North Cascades	0%
Protects fully one-third of the glacers in the contiguous US	North Cascades	0%
Is the largest in Washington	Olympic	0%
Contains the Elwha river, which was dammed until 2014 when the structures were removed to improve Pacific salmon habitat	Olympic	0%
Was traversed by the original Route 66	Petrified Forest	0%
Contains Puerco Pueblo and Crystal Forest trails	Petrified Forest	0%
Is the easternmost in Arizona	Petrified Forest	0%
Is the smallest in California	Pinnacles	0%
Protects shear fractures and chasms along the San Andreas fault, though the fault has shifted and now lies four miles east of the park	Pinnacles	0%
Is a major release site for captive-bred California Condors, and co-manages the entire central California population of these birds	Pinnacles	0%
Is the northernmost in California	Redwood	0%
Is co-managed with a California state park of the same name	Redwood	0%
Protects the tallest tree in the world	Redwood	0%
Is the most siesmically-active place in the US	Redwood	0%
Protects Longs Peak, an iconic 14,000+ foot "fourteener"	Rocky Mountain	0%
Contains the headwaters of the Colorado River	Rocky Mountain	0%
Is the southernmost park along the Continental Divide Trail	Rocky Mountain	0%
Is named for the largest species of cactus in the US	Saguaro	0%
Is composed of two non-contiguous units: Tucson Mountain and Rincon Mountain	Saguaro	0%
Was originally inhabited by the Hohokam and Tohono O'odham people	Saguaro	0%
Contains the Javelina Rocks, named after the small, native mammal	Saguaro	0%
Was the second US National Park	Sequoia	0%
Was the first to be dedicated in California	Sequoia	0%
Is named after one of the two species on the National Park arrowhead logo	Sequoia	0%
Contains the Tunnel Log, where cars can drive through a fallen tree	Sequoia	0%
Shares its name with a Bob Dylan song	Shenandoah	0%
Is the northernmost of the parks along the Appalachain Trail	Shenandoah	0%
Contains Skyline Drive, a 105-mile auto route	Shenandoah	0%
Is the closest to Washington, DC	Shenandoah	0%
Is named for a US president	Theodore Roosevelt	0%
Is composed of three non-contiguous units: the creatively-named North and South units, as well as Elkhorn Ranch	Theodore Roosevelt	0%
Contains the old cabin of the conservationist for whom it is named	Theodore Roosevelt	0%
Protects badlands along the Little Missouri river	Theodore Roosevelt	0%
Is closest to Charlotte Amalie	Virgin Islands	0%
Protects most of the island of Saint John	Virgin Islands	0%
Protects Trunk Bay, Cinnamon Bay, and Honeymoon Beach	Virgin Islands	0%
Contains the ruins of Reef Bay Sugar Factory and nearby sugar plantations	Virgin Islands	0%
Borders Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness	Voyageurs	0%
Borders Ontario	Voyageurs	0%
Named after the french word for French-Canadian fur trappers and traders	Voyageurs	0%
Protects 275 square miles of gypsum dunes, the largest such dunefield on the planet	White Sands	0%
Shares a name with a nearby major missile testing site in New Mexico	White Sands	0%
Is completely surrounded by military installations, including a missile range and Holloman Air Force Base	White Sands	0%
Was the site of the Trinity Test, the first ever nuclear detonation	White Sands	0%
Is featured in many films, including Four Faces West, Hang Em' High, and the 2007 Transformers	White Sands	0%
Lies entirely within the Black Hills	Wind Cave	0%
Lies twenty miles south of Mount Rushmore	Wind Cave	0%
Is named for a strong gust that blew the hat off an early explorer's head	Wind Cave	0%
Is a sacred site to the Lakota, who considered it a portal to the Spirit Lodge within the earth	Wind Cave	0%
Borders the Yukon	Wrangell- St. Elias	0%
Contains the second-highest peak in North America	Wrangell- St. Elias	0%
Contains territory in three different states	Yellowstone	0%
Lies at the opposite terminus of the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway from Grand Teton National Park	Yellowstone	0%
Protects El Capitan, one of the most popular climbing destinations in the world	Yosemite	0%
Is the northernmost in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	Yosemite	0%
Contains large regions including Tuolumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy, and the Cathedral Range, even though most visitors remain in the central valley	Yosemite	0%
Is the most visited in California	Yosemite	0%
Was considered a sacred "homeland" by Mormon pioneers	Zion	0%

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