Other Protected Areas

National Seashores Fact Box Assateague Island Maryland and Virginia Established 1965 39,630 acres Visitation(2009) 2,129,658 Fact Box Canaveral Florida Established 1975 57,662 acres Visitation(2005) 1,007,446 Fact Box Cape Cod Massachusetts Established 1961 43,500 acres Visitation(2005) 3,712,812 Fact Box Cape Hatteras North Carolina Established 1953 30,319 acres Visitation(2005) 2,260,628 Fact Box Cape Lookout North Carolina Established 1966 28,243 acres Visitation(2005) 692,857 Fact Box Cumberland Island Georgia Established 1972 36,415 acres Visitation(2005) 40,291 Fact Box Fire Island New York Established 1964 19,579 acres Visitation(2005) 670,456 Fact Box Gulf Islands Florida and Mississippi Established 1971 135,458 acres Visitation(2005) 1,689,400 Fact Box Padre Island Texas Established 1962 130,434 acres Visitation(2005) 666,580 Fact Box Point Reyes California Established 1962 71,068 acres Visitation(2007) 2,232,082 National Lakeshores Fact Box Apostle Islands Wisconsin Established 1970 69,372 acres Visitation(2009) 170,202 Fact Box Indiana Dunes Indiana Established 1966 15,067 acres Visitation(2005) 2,127,336 Fact Box Pictured Rocks Michigan Established 1966 73,236 acres Visitation(2005) 476,888 Fact Box Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan Established 1970 71,187 acres Visitation(2005) 1,222,313 National Rivers Fact Box Alagnak River Alaska Established 1980 Fact Box Big South Fork Tennessee and Kentucky Established 1974 125,310 acres Visitation(2009) 686,747 Fact Box Bluestone River West Virginia Established 1988 Fact Box Buffalo Arkansas Established 1972 Fact Box Great Egg Harbor New Jersey Established 1992 710 acres Fact Box Middle Delaware River New Jersey and Pennsylvania Established 1965 68,714 acres Visitation(2005) 5,052,264 Fact Box Mississippi River Minnesota Established 1988 53,775 acres Fact Box Missouri River Nebraska and South Dakota Established 1978 33,800 acres Fact Box New River Gorge West Virginia Established 1978 72,808 acres Visitation(2004) 1,100,000 Fact Box Niobrara River Nebraska Established 1991 23,074 acres Visitation(2004) 54,385 Fact Box Obed River Tennessee Fact Box Ozark River Missouri Established 1964 80,000 acres Visitation(2007) 1,789,783 Fact Box Rio Grande Texas 125,440 acres Fact Box St. Croix River Minnesota and Wisconsin Established 1968 92,738 acres Visitation(2005) 521,695 Fact Box Upper Delaware River New York Established 1978 55,575 acres Visitation(2005) 251,083 National Parkways Fact Box Baltimore-Washington Baltimore,MD-Washington,D.C 33 miles Fact Box Blue Ridge Parkway Waynesboro,VA-Great Smoky Mountains NP,NC 469 miles Established 1936 Visitation(2005) 17,882,567 Fact Box Colonial Parkway Jamestown, Yorktown,Williamsburg 23 miles Fact Box Foothills Parkway Tennessee 71 miles Fact Box George Washington Mem. Pky. Mt.Vernon-Washington,D.C Established 1930 Visitation(2005) 7,284,165 Fact Box John D. Rockefeller Yellowstone NP,WY-Grand Teton NP,WY 27 miles Established 1972 Visitation(2003) 1,137,117 Fact Box Natchez Trace Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi 444 miles Established 1938 Visitation(2005) 5,482,282 Fact Box Rock Creek and Potomac Washington,D.C Established in 2005 National Cemeteries Fact Box Andersonville Georgia 495 acres Visitation(2009) 136,267 Several Union prisoners from the Battle of Ft. Sumter are buried here. Fact Box Abraham Lincoln Illinois 982 acres Fact Box Andrew Johnson Tennessee Has the grave of 17th president Andrew Johnson Fact Box Antietam Maryland 3,256 acres Visitation(2009) 392,477 Has only the graves of Union soldiers from the Civil War Fact Box Arlington Virginia 624 acres Soldiers, nurses, and officers from wars ranging from the Civil War to the Iraq War were buried here. The cemetery is divided into 70 sections. Fact Box Chalmette Louisiana 17.5 acres Veterans of military campaigns from the  Revolutionary War to Vietnam War.  Former site of the Battle of New Orleans. Fact Box Custer Montana 765 acres Visitation(2005) 328,668 Victims of the Battle of Little Bighorn are buried here. Fact Box Fort Donelson Kentucky and Tennessee 15 acres 670 Union troops are buried here, as well as veterans from some later wars. Fact Box Fredericksburg Virginia 8,374 acres Visitation(2005) 534,636 Fact Box Gettysburg Pennsylvania Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, many Union soldiers were buried here. Fact Box Poplar Grove Virginia Many union soldiers were buried in this cemetery near Petersburg,VA Fact Box Shiloh Tennessee and Mississippi 3,997 acres Visitation(2005) 315,296 Fact Box Stones River Tennessee 728 acres Visitation(2005) 206,425 Fact Box Vicksburg Mississippi and Louisiana 1,853 acres Visitation(2005) 703,484 Fact Box Yorktown Virginia 9,349 acres Visitation(2007) 3,346,675                                                                                                                                                                                   Other Protected Areas (continued)