May 8th, 2019 Zion National Park, Utah Zion National ParkHumans first began to inhabit the region now known as Zion National Park around 8,000 years ago, with the Mormons showing up in the late 1850s. In 1909, President William Howard Taft named the area Mukuntuweap National Monument in order to protect the canyon from development. In 1918, upon the creation of the National Park Service, the acting director of this new agency proposed renaming the area as Zion National Monument because: "The name change played to a prevalent bias of the time. Many believed that Spanish and Indian names would deter visitors who, if they could not pronounce the name of a place, might not bother to visit it. The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience." Finally, in 1919, the monument was elevated in status to Zion National Park by President Woodrow Wilson. Pop quizZion is the fourth most-visited national park in the United States. What are the first three (in order, of course)? Music
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Sammy
5/9/2019 06:37:24 pm
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon?
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Joshua Golub
5/18/2019 04:56:41 pm
#1: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Richard Day
5/9/2019 11:39:47 pm
1) Yellowstone
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Joshua Golub
5/18/2019 04:57:07 pm
#1: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Mick
5/10/2019 12:50:54 am
Yosemite,Yellowstone,Grand Canyon
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Joshua Golub
5/18/2019 04:57:27 pm
#1: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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