The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.

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She has spent most of her career studying wild chimpanzees in a protected area of Tanzania called Gombe National Park.

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Hyde Park is the area on the South Side of Chicago where the University of Chicago is located.

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Experts say this park has the greatest number of arches of any similar geographic area in the world.

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The first area we will visit is Arches National Park, near the town of Moab in eastern Utah.

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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created by local citizens who wanted to protect the area.

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At each stop, they can walk a short path to a viewing area where they can see a different part of the park.

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Zion National Park is an area of huge rocks that were cut through by a river.

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Only Native Americans,cowboys, and explorers entered this area before the park was established in nineteen sixty-four.

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Then the road goes lower and lower into the area of the park called Yosemite Valley.

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Another climber,John Lang, suggested Bachar free-solo an area called Double Cross, in Joshua Tree National Park,California.

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The area includes the Collier Seminole State Park and the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge.

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And hundreds of kinds of birds have been sighted in the park which serves as a stopping area for birds as they fly to other places.

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Visitors to Zion National Park can sleep under the stars in a camping area.

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Furnace Creek is the largest area of human activity within Death Valley National Park.

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For example,many tourists visit Kruger National Park in the northeastern area of South Africa.

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That area of Yosemite National Park is the traditional international center of rock climbing.

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Canyonlands National Park is a wild, lonely area of rocks, rivers and desert plants.

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From high in the air, visitors can clearly see the third area of the park -- a high broad flat rock known as the Island in the Sky.

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Another area of the park is called the Needles.

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The area had become a park.

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