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National Parks Bring Record Summer Travel to 1925
John D. Dickinson Sherman surveys the 1925 travel boom as Americans flood toward national parks and scenic West regions. He notes more cars, wide road networks, and thousands of camps and hotels fueling a projected 10 million motorists and hundreds of millions in tourism revenue, with Rocky Mountain and Palisades parks highlighted for their beauty and conservation value.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Europe
West
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Maine
National Parks
Chicago
New York
Washington
Estes Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado Rockies
This
National Park
Longs Peak
Rocky Mountain
Park
Front Range
Continental Divide
Grand Lake
Fall River
National Park System
Timber Line
No. 3
Mercury
Omaha
St. Louis
Longspeak
The
Rockies
Charles D. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Walcott
Doctor Walcott
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
Canada
North America
Congress of the
Parliament
Dominion of Canada
Canadian
Noah
Palisades Interstate Park
Hudson
New Jersey
New York State
Bear Mountain
Anthony's Nose
Peekskill
EE. H. Harriman