Meander Outdoors

Meander Outdoors encourages interaction with our environment & culture through our public lands, our communities, & our history.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

A leading voice in the civil rights movement, Medgar Evers was assassinated in 1963. Today we honored his fight for equality in our nation by adding his Mississippi home to the African American Civil Rights Network https://t.co/TkfLuJ0yVI

[Bloomberg Originals @bbgoriginals]

THREAD ⬇️ A 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures: Here's how America uses its land https://t.co/QtriJOsRev

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

#OTD in 1872, President Grant signed the bill creating the nation’s first national park at @YellowstoneNPS. The founding of Yellowstone began a worldwide national park movement. Today more than 100 nations contain some 1,200 national parks or equivalent preserves.
#FindYourPark

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Happy Birthday @GoParks! https://t.co/zEKvU8VZPB

[National Park Foundation @NationalParkFdn]

https://t.co/EX9jA6jr31 ⬅️ OTD in 1967, @GoParks was established to serve as the official national nonprofit of the @NatlParkService. 🎉 Help us celebrate and share why you stand with us by using #WeAreParks!

#FindYourPark #EncuentraTuParque

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Griffith Park is one of the largest municipal parks with urban wilderness areas in the United States.

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Griffith Park includes many amenities including the LA Zoo, museums, a theater, and the Griffith Observatory.

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Griffith Park in Los Angeles is 4,210 acres of both natural chapparal-covered terrain and landscaped parkland.

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Exploring sea caves is a favorite activity among visitors at Channel Islands. The NPS permits tours & outfitters in the area.

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Channel Islands National Park encompasses 5 of the 8 islands off of the California coast west of Los Angeles.

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Island Beach State Park is a 10 mile barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean & the Barnegat Bay, south of Seaside Park.

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The Ryves Holt House, built in 1665 in Lewes, Delaware by early Dutch settlers.

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John Dickinson Plantation, home of the "penman of the Revolution."

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Fort Christina & Old Swedes Church in Wilmington where colonists landed in 1638 to establish New Sweden.

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1,100 acres of Beaver Valley, first deeded to William Penn.

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The Dover Green. Where the US Constitution was signed in a tavern on December 7, 1787, the first state to ratify.

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First State is divided into 7 sites. New Castle Court House, Green, & Sheriff's House.

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First State National Historical Park celebrates the early colonial history of Delaware and it's role in the country's establishment.

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The combined parks cover 593,000 acres, protecting rainforests that have been heavily altered in the area.

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The Iguazu Falls have an estimated 275 drops with the largest being over 80 meters.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg, today 1863: