Who is often called the father of the National Park System?

Muir is often called the Father of Our National Park System. In 1892, he helped found, together with Robert Underwood Johnson, the Sierra Club, to protect the newly created Yosemite National Park and to ... do something for wildness and make the mountains glad...



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Yellowstone, the First National Park.

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1808 — John Colter, who had traveled with Lewis and Clark, visited the area, probably the first white man to get a glimpse of Yellowstone.

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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.

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park is an American national park of the badlands in western North Dakota comprising three geographically separated areas. Honoring U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, it is the only American national park named directly after a single person.

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