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over the forests that cloak its slopes. Its first recent explosion was in May 

 of 1914. Previously, it had been quiescent for two hundred years. Since 

 1914 it has from time to time threatened eruption, to the great interest of 

 travelers in this area. 



In addition to the volcano, this national park, one of the newest and least 

 developed and known, has other charms. It is a region of fine forests, 

 streams, lakes, and other mountain scenery, the heart of a popular vacation 

 area. One of its attractions is a boiling lake with a circumference of 

 approximately two thousand feet. Within the park area are numerous fissures 

 from which issue gases, steam, and rumblings, similar to those of Yellow 

 stone. 



Lassen Volcanic Park may be reached by the Southern Pacific Railroad 

 from the west or by the Western Pacific from the south. By automobile it 

 is reached from Red Bluff, California, on the Pacific Highway, or Reno, 

 Nevada, on the Lincoln Highway. Hotel accommodations are available at 

 points near the park, and camping is permitted within the park. 



MOUNT McKINLEY NATIONAL PARK 



The highest mountain in North America, Mount McKinley, forms the 

 basis for creation of Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska. This enor 

 mous peak rises 20,300 feet, nearly four miles, above sea level. It is snow 

 capped the year around and down its slopes push many great glaciers, some 

 of them among the largest in the world. At its base are forests, meadows, 

 and valleys, above which the mountain towers for 17,000 feet, a magnificent 

 spectacle. A view of this monster two-headed mountain is one of the reasons 

 for a visit to Alaska. 



In addition to Mount McKinley, the park is a great wild game retreat, 

 being the natural home of the caribou, the grizzly, and Alaskan brown bears, 

 fiercest and largest of the bruins, moose, the beautiful white Dall sheep, a 

 species of bighorn, and numerous other animals, as well as many varieties 

 of bird life. 



Mount McKinley is reached by train which connects with boats to Alaska 

 at Cordova and Seward. As yet, it is a great undeveloped wilderness, but a 

 road is being pushed farther each year into its interior fastnesses and seven 

 camps have been established within the boundaries. From these, saddle-horse 

 trips are possible. 



HAWAII NATIONAL PARK 



Within Hawaii National Park are found three volcanoes of world re 

 nown : Haleakala on the island of Maui, and Mauna Loa and Kilauea on the 

 island of Hawaii. Haleakala has been inactive for centuries, but its summit 

 is a crater of size and beauty that makes it one of the world's show places. 

 This crater is eight miles long and three miles wide. Its surrounding walls 

 rise two thousand feet. Its broad, rolling, rainless, sandy floor is decorated 

 with plants famous under the name of silver swords, yucca-like shrubs three 

 to four feet high, whose drooping leaves gleam like polished stilettos. From 



