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In the Capitol Reef National Park (pic. 82) in Utah you’ll see lost of beautiful cliffs. Many of them are covered with petroglyphs (rock carvings) and
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- just like the Anasazi - mysteriously disappeared in 1300AD. |
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The Land of Volcanoes |
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The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (pic. 83) has two of the world’s most active volcanoes. You can hike on lava trails or you can take a photo of real flowing lava! Don’t worry, however, the park rangers won’t let you get too close.
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Petrified Trees
The Petrified Forest National Park (pic. 86 – 87) is located in Arizona. It has lost of petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to a thousand years ago. The park is also covered with fallen trees that are as hard as rocks. These trees fell and were washed away about 225 million years ago! The park also has a whole museum full of early dinosaur fossils!
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The Grand Canyon (pic. 88) in Arizona is one of the true natural wonders of the world. ItСmakes up most of the Grand Canyon National Park and millions of tourists visit it every year.
The Grand Canyon is over 320 km long and up to 6 km deep. The top and the bottom of the canyon have very different weather and vegetation. In fact, going from the top to the bottom is somewhat like going from Canada to Mexico.
There are signs that people lived in the Grand Canyon 4,000 years ago.
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Old Faithful
The Yellowstone National Park (pic. 89 – 90) is the first and the oldest national park in the United States of America. It’s famous for its geysers and hot springs. The most famous geyser is called ‘Old Faithful’ because it’s one of the few geysers that shoots regularly-once every 75 minutes. It shoots hot water and steam up to.
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Amazing Caves |
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If you were a pirate two hundred years ago, you’d need a good place to hide your stolen treasure. Some people say that the best hiding place in the
world is the Mammoth Cave National Park (pic. 91). It’s a huge under- |
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ground cave maze. Many of the caves are still unexplored! |
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Fantastic Trees |
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The Redwood NationalСPark (pic. 92 – 93) in California is home to the oldest trees in the world. One of them, called General Sherman, is more than 3,000 years old. It’s about 84 m tall.
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The Saguaro National Park (pic. 94 – 96) in Arizona is the only place in the United States where you can find the magnificent saguaro cactus. It’s
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one of the slowest-growing plants - it takes seventy-five years before it even grows its first branch!
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Death Valley
Going to Death Valley (pic. 97 – 98) once meant danger and even death. It’s the hottest place in the United States and summer temperatures there can reach 54 degrees C.! Today, Death Valley is a national park and thousands of people drive there (in air-conditioned Иcomfort, of course) to enjoy the beauty of this strange land.
There are lost of ghost towns in Death Valley. In the 1800s people streamed to Death Valley looking for gold and silver. The terrible heat combined with hard work made people leave the towns. Today, you can visit these eerie ghost towns and look inside old houses, prisons and banks
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СBack to the Ice Age |
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In Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park (pic. 99 – 101) it’s easy to imagine what our planet looked like at the end of the Ice Age. There’re lost of glaciers there-and they are still moving! But if you’re good at canoeing or rafting, you’ll have nothing to worry about!
From: Speak Out/3, 2006
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