In 1843, architect Joseph Paxton designed what is considered the first urban park in the world for public use, financed with public funds in Liverpool, England: Birkenhead Park.
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Established in 1634, Boston Common is America's oldest public park. Puritan colonists purchased the land rights to the Common's 44 acres from the first European settler of the area, Anglican minister William Blackstone.
The world's oldest amusement park is located inside the Par Force Hunting Landscape of Jægersborg Deer Park. People have pilgrimaged to Bakken, or Dyrehavsbakken as it is officially known, since 1583 for its healing springs.
Evansville, Ind., industrialist Louis J.Koch created the world's first theme park as a retirement project. He was troubled that the tiny hamlet of Santa Claus, Ind., was visited by children who were disappointed when they discovered Santa was not there.
A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890.
The Yellowstone supervolcano last erupted about 640,000 years ago. A sleeping giant is nestled in the western part of the United States. Though it stirs occasionally, it has not risen from slumber in nearly 70,000 years.
From the book: “In 1872 the United States Congress created at Yellowstone in Wyoming the world's first national park. Three years later Mackinac Island, Michigan, became the site of the second.