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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the Matson Company of direct steamship service between 

 Baltimore and Honolulu via the Panama Canal. New 

 large palatial steamships are operated on this route. 



Lafayette National Park in Maine, while mentioned 

 last, is one of the important members of the National 

 Park system. The Park area is composed of the group 

 of granite mountains upon Mount Desert Island. The 

 Cadillac Mountain, altitude 1,532 feet, is the highest point 

 of the eastern coast. Hotel accommodations are available 

 at Bar Harbor, which is reached by train and boat service 



Yellowstone Trail, National Parks Highway and Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt International Highway. There are other 

 highways beginning in the Middle West and reaching 

 several of the Parks. The Custer Battlefield Highway 

 extends from Omaha, Nebraska, to the Glacier National 

 Park. The Black and Yellow Trail extends from Chi- 

 cago to the Yellowstone National Park. 



All these highways, with the exception of the Old Span- 

 ish Trail and Bankhead Highway, join and give access to 

 the National Park-to-Park Highway, which was estab- 



Courlesv of Xational Park Service 



CAMPING UNDER THE GIANT SEQUOIAS 



Attractive camps in the shadow of these noble trees are dotted throughout the forest during the season in the Sequoia National 

 Park, California, and every year finds more and more campers taking advantage of the opportunity offered for a delightful trip. 



from practically all points in the East ; also good motor 

 roads reach the Island. 



But one will say that the above information is of no use 

 to the person who is planning a motor trip through the 

 National Parks, and the question arises whether one can 

 go by motor ; the answer is yes. In fact, 60 per cent of 

 the Park travel last year was by private automobile. From 

 south to north there are nine main transcontinental high- 

 ways crossing the United States from east to west. These 

 named in order are : Old Spanish Trail, Bankhead High- 

 way, National Old Trails, Roosevelt National Highway, 

 Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, Lincoln Highway, 



lished and designated last fall by the National Park-to- 

 Park Highway Association in cooperation with the Amer- 

 ican Automobile Association, and with the approval of 

 the Department of the Interior. The National Park-to- 

 Park Highway is 4,700 miles long. It passes through nine 

 western States and links in a great circle chain Rocky 

 Mountain, Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Rainier, Crater 

 Lake, Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite, General Grant, Se- 

 quoia, Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde National Parks 

 the heart of the Continental Divide ; geysers ; glaciers ; 

 ice-clad mountain peaks piercing the sky ; crater of long 

 dead volcano filled with a wonderful lake of deepest blue 



