Exploring Historic U.S. Parks
Five Parks Highlight Midwest and Southwest Heritage Through Nature and History
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These articles spotlight five U.S. parks offering distinctive nature, history, and outdoor experiences. Illinois’ Pere Marquette State Park pairs rugged bluffs and roughly 15 miles of trails with scenic drives along the Mississippi and a visit to nearby Grafton. Missouri’s Onondaga Cave State Park centers on guided tours of a National Natural Landmark, alongside camping, hiking, fishing, and Meramec River access. Ohio’s Malabar Farm State Park preserves author and conservationist Louis Bromfield’s farm and his work demonstrating more sustainable farming practices. Kentucky’s Cove Spring Park offers a quieter natural escape along Benson Creek, while Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park protects thousands of archaeological sites, including Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings such as Cliff Palace.
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Pere Marquette State Park covers more than 8,000 acres of forested bluffs and river bottomlands, with around 15 miles of marked trails.
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Missouri has more than 6,000 known caves, formed as groundwater dissolved the state’s limestone and dolomite over millions of years; Onondaga Cave is among the country’s standout show caves.
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Louis Bromfield left behind literary and social circles in Paris and New York to return to Ohio and spend decades demonstrating that restoring damaged farmland by working with nature could be practical.
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Cove Spring Park is a natural area managed by the City of Frankfort, and its landscape is described as classic Kentucky karst terrain.
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Established in 1906, Mesa Verde was the first national park created specifically to preserve human-made works. It protects more than 4,700 archaeological sites, including about 600 cliff dwellings; its Cliff Palace is a 150-room complex that housed roughly 100 people.
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