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.
Capturing Yosemite: The Legacy of Carleton Watkins
Navigating Nature's Mysteries: Insights from 'Outside/In'"
Yellowstone Mass Shooting Foiled, Horse Rescue, Heat Incidents, and More | National Park News
The Acequias of San Antonio
Diana of the Dunes
Zion: The Art that Made the Park
Denali Worker Told to Remove U.S. Flag, Rare WHITE BISON Born, Grizzly Has Quintuplets | National Park News
Forged in a Hurricane: The Creation of Assateague Island National Seashore
The U.S. Camel Corps
The Prisoner of Shark Island
National Park News | Major National Park Rescue, Rocky Mountain Increasing Camping Fees, Grizzly Bears Return to Cascades
Capitol Reef: Fruit Trees in the Utah Desert
Echoes of the Past: The Saga of Theodore Roosevelt National Park's Wild Horses
National Park News | National Parks Get Vandalized, NPS Sued For Not Accepting Cash, New National Monument?
EXPLORE ACT Returns Filming in National Parks and Expands Access to Public Lands
The Measure of Wonder
Poaching in the Everglades
Designing a National Park Visitor Center for the 21st Century
National Park News | Biden Proposes NPS Budget, Employee Housing Crisis, & More
Wives into the Wilderness: The Unpaid Force That Shaped National Parks
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