In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act imbuing presidents with the authority to create national monuments on public land to preserve areas of natural or historic interest. More national parks followed including Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park. The Act also set aside public land in the future states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, breaking away from the established policy of transferring public lands in the West to private ownership. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln responded to pressure from activists by creating the Yosemite Grant Act to protect land in the Yosemite Valley while in 1872 Congress established Yellowstone as the country's first national park via the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act. The National Park Service (NPS) is a federal agency within the US Department of the Interior. A Brief History of the US National Park Service For example, Utah’s Arches National Park rolled out a timed entry program with reservations to be made 3 months in advance. So much so that the National Park Service, which administers all national parks in the United States, has had to impose new systems to control crowds in some parks. While the pandemic years of 2020-21 saw overall visitor numbers across the national park system drop to below pre-pandemic levels, some of the best-known national parks experienced record visitation numbers. One of the largest countries in the world by landmass, the US contains a diverse range of spectacular landscapes, ranging from vast deserts to snow-capped mountains, spectacular canyons to haunting forests, roaring rivers and waterfalls, mammoth springs, gorgeous meadows, sandstone cliffs … And this stunning array of sceneries are best reflected in America’s 63 national parks whose incredible beauty and awe-inspiring vistas draw visitors from across the US and the world, year after year.

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