National Seashores Fact BoxAssateague IslandMaryland and Virginia Established 1965 39,630 acres Visitation(2009) 2,129,658 Fact BoxCanaveralFlorida Established 1975 57,662 acres Visitation(2005) 1,007,446 Fact BoxCape CodMassachusetts Established 1961 43,500 acres Visitation(2005) 3,712,812 Fact BoxCape HatterasNorth Carolina Established 1953 30,319 acres Visitation(2005) 2,260,628 Fact BoxCape LookoutNorth Carolina Established 1966 28,243 acres Visitation(2005) 692,857 Fact BoxCumberland IslandGeorgia Established 1972 36,415 acres Visitation(2005) 40,291 Fact BoxFire Island
New York
Established 1964
19,579 acres
Visitation(2005) 670,456 Fact BoxGulf IslandsFlorida and Mississippi Established 1971 135,458 acres Visitation(2005) 1,689,400 Fact BoxPadre IslandTexas Established 1962 130,434 acres Visitation(2005) 666,580 Fact BoxPoint ReyesCalifornia Established 1962 71,068 acres Visitation(2007) 2,232,082 National LakeshoresFact BoxApostle IslandsWisconsin Established 1970 69,372 acres Visitation(2009) 170,202 Fact BoxIndiana DunesIndiana Established 1966 15,067 acres Visitation(2005) 2,127,336 Fact BoxPictured RocksMichigan Established 1966 73,236 acres Visitation(2005) 476,888 Fact BoxSleeping Bear DunesMichigan Established 1970 71,187 acres Visitation(2005) 1,222,313 National RiversFact BoxAlagnak RiverAlaska Established 1980 Fact BoxBig South ForkTennessee and Kentucky Established 1974 125,310 acres Visitation(2009) 686,747 Fact BoxBluestone RiverWest Virginia Established 1988 Fact BoxGreat Egg HarborNew Jersey Established 1992 710 acres Fact BoxMiddle Delaware RiverNew Jersey and Pennsylvania Established 1965 68,714 acres Visitation(2005) 5,052,264 Fact BoxMississippi RiverMinnesota Established 1988 53,775 acres Fact BoxMissouri RiverNebraska and South Dakota Established 1978 33,800 acres Fact BoxNew River GorgeWest Virginia Established 1978 72,808 acres Visitation(2004) 1,100,000 Fact BoxNiobrara RiverNebraska Established 1991 23,074 acres Visitation(2004) 54,385 Fact BoxOzark RiverMissouri Established 1964 80,000 acres Visitation(2007) 1,789,783 Fact BoxRio GrandeTexas 125,440 acres Fact BoxSt. Croix RiverEstablished 1968 92,738 acres Visitation(2005) 521,695 Fact BoxUpper Delaware River
New York
Established 1978
55,575 acres
Visitation(2005) 251,083 National ParkwaysFact BoxBaltimore-WashingtonBaltimore,MD-Washington,D.C 33 miles Fact BoxBlue Ridge ParkwayWaynesboro,VA-Great Smoky Mountains NP,NC 469 miles Established 1936 Visitation(2005) 17,882,567 Fact BoxColonial ParkwayJamestown, Yorktown,Williamsburg 23 miles Fact BoxFoothills ParkwayTennessee 71 miles Fact BoxGeorge Washington Mem. Pky.Mt.Vernon-Washington,D.C Established 1930 Visitation(2005) 7,284,165 Fact BoxJohn D. RockefellerYellowstone NP,WY-Grand Teton NP,WY 27 miles Established 1972 Visitation(2003) 1,137,117 Fact BoxNatchez TraceTennessee-Alabama-Mississippi 444 miles Established 1938 Visitation(2005) 5,482,282 Fact BoxRock Creek and Potomac
Washington,D.C Established in 2005 National CemeteriesFact BoxAndersonvilleGeorgia 495 acres Visitation(2009) 136,267 Several Union prisoners from the Battle of Ft. Sumter are buried here. Fact BoxAbraham LincolnIllinois 982 acres Fact BoxAndrew JohnsonTennessee Has the grave of 17th president Andrew Johnson Fact BoxAntietamMaryland 3,256 acres Visitation(2009) 392,477 Has only the graves of Union soldiers from the Civil War Fact BoxArlingtonVirginia 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 BoxChalmette
Louisiana
17.5 acres
Veterans of military campaigns from the
Revolutionary War to Vietnam War.
Former site of the Battle of New Orleans. Fact BoxCusterMontana 765 acres Visitation(2005) 328,668 Victims of the Battle of Little Bighorn are buried here. Fact BoxFort DonelsonKentucky and Tennessee 15 acres 670 Union troops are buried here, as well as veterans from some later wars. Fact BoxFredericksburgVirginia 8,374 acres Visitation(2005) 534,636 Fact BoxGettysburgPennsylvania Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, many Union soldiers were buried here. Fact BoxPoplar GroveVirginia Many union soldiers were buried in this cemetery near Petersburg,VA Fact BoxShilohTennessee and Mississippi 3,997 acres Visitation(2005) 315,296 Fact BoxStones RiverTennessee 728 acres Visitation(2005) 206,425 Fact BoxVicksburgMississippi and Louisiana 1,853 acres Visitation(2005) 703,484 Fact BoxYorktownVirginia 9,349 acres Visitation(2007) 3,346,675 Other Protected Areas (continued) |