It's National Park Week! Check out these lesser-known fun facts about national parks across the country.
It’s National Park Week — a unique time to appreciate the beauty and splendor of the great American outdoors. While the U.S. park scene offers plenty of notable historic sites and landscapes, there are also many features and facts about our national parks that are far lesser known.
The park is made up of seven small islands that can only be reached by boat or plane, making it one of the most remote national parks in the U.S. 5. Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky offers the longest cave system in the world The cave system has 426 mapped miles with what's been discovered to date, according to NPS. 6.
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