National Parks

1. / Visitors are most likely to spot Roosevelt elk—named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt
5. / (two words) We visited this national park together
7. / Roosevelt spent a night beneath the giant sequoias of Mariposa Grove and compared it to “lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hands of man.”
10. / The only national park in Oregon (two words)
12. / Oldest designated national park in the United States, East of the Mississippi River
13. / Means the "high one" to native Athabaskans

2. / Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 12, 1964
3. / (Two words) Longest cave system known in the world
4. / (Two words) This national park lies in Linus' home state
6. / larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined; The highest point in the park is 11,358′ at Eagle Peak
8. / network of wetlands and forests fed by a river flowing .25 miles (0.40 km) per day out of Lake Okeechobee, southwest into Florida Bay
9. / The name comes from the Lakota, who first called it “mako sica”, or “land that is bad”.
11. / The world's tallest tree's