Did You Know ... ? The 1964 Good Friday earthquake, the continent’s largest, destroyed 90% of Seward. More than 100,000 birds feed on the 4.5-mile sliver of land called Homer Spit. The Harding Icefield is larger than Rhode Island and is half a mile deep. The first major Alaska oil
Did You Know? The westernmost inhabited spot in the U.S. is on Kauai. Kauai has Hawaii’s only navigable rivers. “South Pacific” (1958) is among the more than 60 films and TV shows with scenes shot on Kauai. Only 10% of Kauai’s landscape is accessible by road. Nineteenth century Portuguese immigrants
Did You Know? Joshua trees don’t have growth rings, making it hard to calculate their ages. Prospectors developed about 300 mines within today’s park, most not worth much. But, the park’s Lost Horse Mine produced gold and silver worth about $5 million today, between 1894 and 1931. Early proponents of
Did You Know? The Diamond Lady docked at Bettendorf was America’s first casino riverboat in the modern era (1991). The U.S. Lock and Dam No. 19 at Keokuk was the world’s largest electricity generating plant when built (1913). The Council Bluffs name stems from a council held by Lewis and
Did You Know ... ? Tongass is America’s largest national forest at 16.8 million acres. Juneau is the only state capital in the U.S. with no road access. Admiralty Island claims North America’s highest concentration of nesting eagles. Malaspina Glacier is North America’s largest glacier. In another era, there were
Did You Know? There are more than 1,135 native plant species in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The national park’s 126-foot-high Mount Baldy moves inland at an average rate of four feet a year. It takes 1.6 times more energy to run on sand than on a hard surface. Lake
Did You Know? Cave-in-Rock State Park is named for a cave that sheltered outlaws until the 1830s. Edward Everett Hale used Illinois’ Fort Massac as a setting for his classic, “The Man Without a Country.” The Native American city of Cahokia was larger than London in the year 1250. Bison
Did You Know? Hells Canyon is North America's deepest river gorge, 8,913 feet at its deepest. Idaho has more river miles (3,100) than any other U.S. state. Idaho is the nation’s largest producer of trout. Soda Springs Geyser, released during drilling in 1937, is the world’s largest manmade geyser (70+
Did You Know? Hot Springs Reservation (later national park) was America’s first federally protected land (1832). Approximately 15% of Eureka Springs’ residents are working artists. Blue Spring at Eureka Springs generates 38 million gallons of cold water daily. The waters at Hot Springs are rainwater, from rainfalls of about 4,400
Did You Know? The Walkway Over the Hudson (Highland to Poughkeepsie) is the world’s longest pedestrian bridge (1.28 miles). West Point is America’s oldest continuously occupied military post (1779). New Paltz’s Huguenot Street is considered America’s oldest street with its original houses (built 1705-1894). Philadelphia Cream Cheese originated in Chester
