Photo by W. h- Huber 
AN END VIEW OF THE DEVIL S POST PILE 
These ruins are situated about 25 miles 
southwest of Mancos, Colorado. For a 
distance of a 8 miles the government has 
constructed a wagon road, but the re- 
mainder of the distance must be traveled 
on horseback. 
WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK 
Wind Cave National Park, in South 
Dakota, created by the act of January 9, 
1903, is situated 12 miles east of Hot 
Springs, South Dakota, and has an area 
of 10,522 acres. Its one attraction is a 
limestone cave of remarkable beauty, 
containing many fantastic and peculiar 
formations. Sullys Hill National Park, 
in North Dakota, and Piatt National 
Park, in Oklahoma, are of considerable 
local interest, but present no striking 
features to make them of general im- 
portance. Sullys Hill Park was created 
by the act of April 27, 1904, and has an 
area of 780 acres ; Piatt National Park 
was created by the acts of July i, 1902, 
and April 21, 1904. It has an area of 
848 acres. 
THE HOT SPRINGS OE ARKANSAS 
In the wooded hills of central Arkansas 
are the hot springs of Arkansas, on a 
government reservation which is not 
called a national park and which does not 
serve exactly the same purpose as the 
other parks, but whose importance is so 
great that it should be included in any 
discussion of the park system. 
While the parks are essentially rec- 
reation grounds and serve as health 
restorers only in so far as they give 
opportunities for outdoor life, the hot 
springs of Arkansas have been held by 
the Federal government solely by reason 
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