UNFAMILIAR SCENES IN NATIONAL PARKS 



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water ; the only active volcano in the United States ; 

 glacier-carved valleys ; canyons cut by the action of the ele- 

 ments, thousands of feet deep ; mammoth trees ; and ruins 

 of cities whose prehistoric inhabitants have left no other 

 record. In extent and grandeur of natural exhibits it 

 surpasses any other scenic drive on earth. 



This wonder highway also offers to the tourist the 

 greatest exhibits of wild life in America and variations 

 in climate along its course from the torrid to the frigid, 

 often within the space of a few hours ; an excellent ex- 

 ample of this is the run from the San Joaquin Valley 

 to the Sequoia National Park, where, by simply going up 

 the mountains, one may experience any shade of climate 

 desired. 



While the Park-to-Park Highway is to be a well marked 

 definite route, it is but a nucleus of a great inter-park road 

 system which will eventually be developed. From the big 



Photograph by Herbert IV. Gleason 



THROUGH THE REDWOODS 



One of the highways in the territory which it is now proposed 

 to make into the Redwoods Park in California. 





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Courtesy of National Park Service 



MOTORING TO THE NATIONAL PARKS 



Here is a road to the Zion National Park, Utah, which leads 

 through a region rich in colorful scenic interest, where reds, pinks 

 and startling whites predominate. 



circle route there are a number of arteries of existing 

 highways of scenic or historic importance such as the 

 Columbia River Highway,- the Denver Mountain Parks 

 System, the Pikes Peak Highway and the Yosemite-Lake 

 Tahoe loop, which are an essential part of this inter-park 

 road system. The several western states offer excep- 

 tional small circle tours within the limits of their, re- 

 spective boundaries. Particularly is this true of Mori- 

 tana whose cross-state roads are being extensively de- 

 veloped. 



The motor tourist has not been neglected in the Na,^ 

 tional Parks, for in each there have been established free 

 public camp grounds, where one may bring camp equip- 

 ment and camp out.' The free public camp ground is; bc^ 

 ing extensively developed throughout the West, cities and 



