Surprising US national park facts you probably didn’t know
Jacqui Agate
25 April 2022
Top trivia on the USA's backyard
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Sequoia National Park is home to the world’s largest living tree
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Tiny ice worms live inside Alaska’s glaciers
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Yellowstone has the country’s oldest free-roaming bison herd
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Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995
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There’s a fiery waterfall in Yosemite
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Bryce Canyon has the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth
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Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth
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Parts of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison get just 33 minutes of sunlight per day
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Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world
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The Great Smoky Mountains are the 'salamander capital of the world'
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The dunes sing at Great Sand Dunes National Park
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New York City's skyline could sit beneath Crater Lake
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Indiana Dunes is known as the 'birthplace of ecology'
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There are African oryx at White Sands
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You can have lunch underground at Carlsbad Caverns National Park
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There are more than 40 wrecks at Biscayne National Park
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North America’s oldest human remains were found in Channel Islands National Park
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Denali frogs freeze themselves alive in winter
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There are more than 100 endangered species at Haleakalā National Park
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The Everglades are the only place in the world where crocs and alligators co-exist
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The cacti in Saguaro National Park are enormous
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Big Bend has some fascinating fossils
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Pinnacles National Park moves by about 0.59 inches (1.5cm) each year
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The Grand Canyon is bigger than the state of Rhode Island
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Mount Rainier could be the one of the USA’s most dangerous volcanoes
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Glacier National Park’s goats like to hang out near people
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Great Basin National Park has some of the world’s oldest trees
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Zion National Park has one of the world's largest free-standing natural arches
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Grand Teton National Park has its very own airport
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Bears outnumber people at Katmai National Park and Preserve
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