National Parks
The American Experience
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Rugged topography often explains why open spaces near
major American cities have not been extensively developed. Here, the Marin Headlands
of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area frame the Golden Gate Bridge and San
Francisco, California.
Photograph by Richard Frear, courtesy of the National Park Service
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Gateway National Recreation Area, New York and New Jersey,
offers recreation for nearby population centers, such as bird watching, above. But urban
parks must also cope with urban problems. Below, a high rise and car abandoned at Breezy
Point in the same park.
Photographs by Richard Frear, courtesy of the National Park Service
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This controversial observation tower, constructed during the early
1970s on private land just outside Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, dramatizes the
continuing threat to all national parks from commercial encroachments.
Photograph by Richard Frear, courtesy of the National Park Service
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