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U.S. National Parks by Wikipedia Descriptions

For each line, name which of the 63 U.S. National Parks has that line in it's Wikipedia article, Have Fun!
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U.S. National Park
___________ Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America and is centered over the ___________ Caldera, the largest supervolcano on the continent
Yellowstone
As the most visited national park in the United States, the _____________________ National Park anchors a large tourism industry based in Sevier County, Tennessee adjacent to the park
Great Smoky Mountains
UNESCO included ____________ as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984
Death Valley
___________ has no streams flowing into or out of it. All water that enters the lake is eventually lost from evaporation or subsurface seepage. The lake's water commonly has a striking blue hue, and the lake is refilled entirely from direct precipitation in the form of snow and rain
Crater Lake
___________ National Park is only 10 miles (16 km) south of Yellowstone National Park, to which it is connected by the National Park Service–managed John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway
Grand Teton
_______ National Park is a United States national park located in the State of Washington, on the _______ Peninsula. The park has four regions: the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west-side temperate rainforest, and the forests of the drier east side
Olympic
In 1896, a gold prospector named it "______________" in support of then-presidential candidate William ________; that name was the official name recognized by the federal government of the United States from 1917 until 2015. In August 2015, 40 years after Alaska had done so, the United States Department of the Interior announced the change of the official name of the mountain to ______
Denali
In the lead-up to Super Bowl XLVIII, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution on Friday, January 31, 2014, temporarily renaming the mountain Mount Seattle Seahawks until the midnight after the Super Bowl, Monday, February 3, 2014, in response to the renaming of 53 mountains in Colorado after the 53 members of the Denver Broncos by Governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper
Mount Rainier
Cadillac Mountain, named after the French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, is on the eastern side of the island. Cadillac is the tallest mountain along the eastern coastline of the United States
Acadia
The park covers 70,446 acres of land in three sections: the North Unit, the South Unit, and the Elkhorn Ranch Unit. The park's larger South Unit lies alongside Interstate 94 near Medora, North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt
The park is completely surrounded by the military installations of ___________ Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, and has always had an uneasy relationship with the military. Errant missiles often fell within the park's boundaries, occasionally destroying some of the visitor areas
White Sands
The park consists of two separate parcels, the Tucson Mountain District (TMD) to the west of Tucson, Arizona, and the Rincon Mountain District (RMD) to the east. Each parcel comes within about 10 miles (16 km) of the center of the city
Saguaro
The Green River runs through the park, with a tributary called the Nolin River feeding into the Green just inside the park. ____________ is the world's longest known cave system with more than 420 miles (680 km) of surveyed passageways
Mammoth Cave
The park is best known for Skyline Drive, a 105-mile (169 km) road that runs the length of the park along the ridge of the mountains. 101 miles (163 km) of the Appalachian Trail are also in the park. In total, there are over 500 miles (800 km) of trails within the park
Shenandoah
2 Comments
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Level 86
Dec 27, 2022
Mammoth Cave contains the name of the Park. Love the quiz otherwise.
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Level 68
Dec 27, 2022
Yeah, that was an oversight, fixing!