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Canyon Lodge at Yellowstone National Park

By Jennifer John, Northern Arizona University
Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park had been selected by the Park Service to be the inaugural project for Mission 66 since it was the first national park. Like most national parks, planning for new building projects started well before…

Beaver Meadows Visitor Center at Rocky Mountain National Park

By Jennifer John, Northern Arizona University
On January 26, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Rocky Mountain National Park Act, establishing Rocky Mountain as a national park and securing its boundaries. Lodge keepers owned private lands throughout the park where they maintained roads,…

Painted Desert Visitor Center at Petrified Forest National Park

By Jennifer John, Northern Arizona University
In the 1850s U.S. Army Lieutenant Amiel Whipple passed through the Painted Desert while surveying a route along the 35th Parallel. Impressed by the deposits of petrified wood, Whipple documented the finding, recording the first published account of…

Quarry Visitor Center at Dinosaur National Monument

By Jennifer John, Northern Arizona University
In 1909, Earl Douglass, a paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, discovered a site riddled with fossilized dinosaur bones in the northeastern corner of Utah and created a camp where he began excavating remains. In the following six…
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