How to Use national park in a Sentence

national park

noun
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  • Over the next eight years, the girls and I went to three more national parks.
    — Bonnie MacDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • And, of course, take a stroll through the national park as well.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The area is near the western entrance of the national park.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Just look for the area of the show floor designed to look like part of a national park.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The Western tourist town of Medora is at the gates of the national park that bears his name.
    — Jack Dura, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • State parks, metroparks and national parks could be the perfect spot to catch the rare event.
    — Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time a national park closed due to extreme weather.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Lassen Park was created in 1916, one of the first national parks.
    — Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In Kosovo, the squad got a 40-minute ride from some guy to a national park and found cracked courts, in the middle of the woods, on which to practice.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • The Abyss Pool, in the southern area of the national park in Wyoming, is a 53-foot-deep hot spring, one of the deepest at Yellowstone.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Elias is the biggest national park in the United States—13.2 million acres—and one of the most remote.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The area in the southern portion of Yosemite was closed to visitors but the rest of the national park remained open.
    — CBS News, 11 July 2022
  • Beyond that, about 30 percent of the cave passages stretch past the boundaries of the national park.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The national park where the lizard was found had been surveyed routinely for over a decade.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
  • Preserving the land would link a string of national parks and 4,000 miles of wilderness.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
  • The Hat Shop certainly has the weirdest name in the national park, and it’s one of the most unusual hikes too.
    — Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The timing of the floods couldn’t have been worse for Yellowstone, the country’s first national park.
    — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 19 June 2022
  • Duffel bags of the stuff rained down on a Georgia national park, and thus Cocaine Bear was born.
    — Brian Truitt, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
  • For their part, many people who lived alongside the river opposed both the dam and the national park.
    — Bruce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
  • In October 2021, the national park asked for the public’s help in finding a man who hit a baseball over the rim.
    — Brittany Shammas, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The New River Gorge, now a national park, is a hidden gem for fall foliage lovers.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But beware: this is one of the most challenging hikes in the national park system.
    — Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In contrast, much of the national park has been heavily logged.
    — Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Some, like White Sands, are national parks for their unique landscape.
    — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The campground is on the Tennessee side of the national park, between Townsend and Gatlinburg.
    — Sarah Riley, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
  • Denali is the only national park with a kennel of sled dogs.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The excursion includes a tour of the national park led by an expert ranger.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 July 2024
  • The giant sequoias attract thousands of tourists each year to the national park.
    — CBS News, 12 July 2022
  • News of the bear’s death spread quickly on a Facebook page that tracks the sow and other wildlife in Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
    — Mead Gruver, Chicago Tribune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The site where the fossils were found, now a national park, is considered the world's epicenter of Ediacaran diversity and abundance.
    — New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024

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