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Show 1951 Broke Records In National Parks U. S. rangers have closed their books on the greatest travel year in the history of America's national na-tional parks. From Maine to Alaska and Hawaii, Ha-waii, more than 36,700,000 people one in every four Americans visited historic shrines and saw majestic scenery that they themselves them-selves own as part of the far-flung national park system. The figure broke the 1950 record by nearly four million. Uncle Sam's public park domain mountains and monuments, canyons can-yons and caves embraces more land than the combined area of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Mass-achusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Connect-icut, Delaware and half of New Jersey. Half of the total is in 28 National Parks; the remainder in 175 National Monuments, historical histori-cal sites, battlefields, and memorials. memor-ials. National forests, ten times as big, are not included. Yellowstone is the largest National Na-tional Park. A fantastic land of geysers, hot springs, mud volcanoes, volca-noes, waterfalls, mountains, and forests, it sprawls across more than two million acres of Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Montana, and Idaho. |