America’s National Parks Podcast
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On May 10th, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, two sets of ordinary railroad tracks met under extraordinary circumstances. Together the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies, building from Sacramento, California, and Omaha, Nebraska, joined to revolutionize travel. Before that day, a single person would pay $1000 to travel from east to west in the United States. On a steam engine train, it only cost $150. More than 1700 miles of track were laid in just seven years, across deserts, over plains, and through mountains. Its completion was one of the most defining moments in our nation’s history.
On today’s episode of America’s National Parks, the Golden Spike National Historical Park, and the nation’s first transcontinental railroad, celebrating its 150th anniversary this May.
Marsh Billings Rockefeller: Conservation on a Grand Scale
News FromThe Parks | ”Fee Free”Smokies to End, Rabbit Disease, Bird Migration & More
Betty Reid Soskin
Behind The Scene’s of Netflix’s ”Our Great National Parks”
The Women of Lowell
The House on Brattle Street
National Park News | New Mask Rules, Fewer Humpbacks, Missions Damaged, & a New Nat’l Historic Site
Discovering Yellowstone
Steamtown and Pheobe Snow
Ansel Adams
National Park News | 2021 Visitation Shatters Records, New Park Reservations, a First for USS Constitution
Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct
Imprisoned at Fort McHenry
Changes to National Parks in 2022
Weir Farm
National Park News | New NPS Director, 19% of Giant Sequoias Gone in 2 years, Hiker Remains Found After 38 Years
Mary Colter and the Grand Canyon
Badlands Symbiotic Species — Prairie Dogs and Burrowing Owls
What Makes a National Trail?
National Park News | Monuments Restored, Sequoias Destroyed, Mammoth Grows, Wolves Killed, White Sands Discovery, & More
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