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20 Most Visited Parks in the United States 2019

11 May, 202011 May, 2020 by Traveling Cook

Most Visited Parks in the United States 2019 These 20 most visited parks in the United States in 2019, by number of recreational visitors, according to the statistics of the National Park Service Rank Park Recreation Visits % of Total 1 Golden Gate NRA 15,002,227 4.58% 2 Blue Ridge PKWY 14,976,085 4.57% 3 Great Smoky Mountains NP 12,547,743 3.83% 4 Gateway NRA 9,405,622 2.87% 5 Lincoln Memorial 7,808,182 2.38% 6 Lake Mead NRA 7,499,049 2.29% 7 George Washington MEM …

Yellowstone and the COVID-19 test (coronavirus)

2 May, 2020 by Traveling Cook

Yellowstone and the COVID-19 test A strange way of life that lives in the park’s hot springs makes a protein that changed the course of biomedical history. Orange and slimy microbial mats grow in the Great Prismatic Fountain of Yellowstone National Park. Thomas Brock in Yellowstone Microbiologist Thomas Brock was camping in Yellowstone National Park in the 1960s, when he found a species of bacteria that would transform medical science. Brock investigated the tiny life forms that manage to get …