What park founded in 1872 is the oldest national park in the world?

First national park: Yellowstone Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States; Yellowstone was the first national park in the world. In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established as the United States' first national park, being also the world's first national park.



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In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established as the United States' first national park, being also the world's first national park.

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Yellowstone, the First National Park.

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Yellowstone National Park Act, 1872 - The Act signed into law on March 1, 1872, established the world's first true national park.

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Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is not only the oldest national park in the United States but also in the world. It is also one of the largest, and probably the best-known, national parks in the United States.

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Instead, the name was attributed as early as 1805 to Native Americans who were referring to yellow sandstones along the banks of the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana, several hundred miles downstream and northeast of the Park.

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The New River Gorge was given National Park Service protection in 1978 as a national river, and was expanded to New River Gorge National Park & Preserve — this country's newest national park — in the plague year of 2020 courtesy of legislation drafted by Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito.

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The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska.

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Bakken is an amusement park in Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune, Denmark, (near Klampenborg (Gentofte Kommune (municipality), approximately 10 km (6 mi) north of central Copenhagen. It opened in 1583 and is the world's oldest operating amusement park.

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