Top 7 National Parks With Surprisingly Strange Histories

RANKD Team Americana edition.

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Yellowstone — the world's first national park

Yosemite — initially protected as a state park

Hot Springs — reserved decades before Yellowstone

Yellowstone's U.S. Army era

The 1988 Yellowstone fires

The return of wolves to Yellowstone

The national-park idea itself

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