Evening star., 1922-02-17
Wants Capital Motorists
To Visit National Parks

place at once. Everybody likes .Nc
bears. Of course, 80 the only ~ sh,mG mnf
forget that a bear has keen scent:
There were 100000 automobile
campers in the various national parks
last year. A fee of $3.50 is chargeo
for each car for the season. IN tne
Yellowstone Park there are four iarge He
ones. These camps are iaid OIL I'M
cities, each automobile being given q
regular lot. on which the owner sees
up housekeeping.
ter are provided for each camp c'ey ~
OF automobilists. DR.. w. Harmon OF
the United States public health seIv.
ice is now making q thorough stuoy
Of the sanitation of these camps. anu
in the future the park serv,Se r Istest
sewage systems for the automopiils.ss,
The camps must be EXPANDED ea.n
year, 90 popular are they pecomihs'
~ X 4
The value Of q month or 80 entirety
in tho open is coming home to the
American people as never oeio.e.
And the national parks anord the
Ideal camping grounds for the peo-
ple. For 81 a day one party OF three
from Cleveland took a nine-mohtn
trip. This included the cost OF gaso-
line.
"america outdoors and On wheels
each summer." That Is one OF the
great ideals which the park sesviSs
Is helping to realization. Inc rp' III
can be taken safely. IL rs po pponar,encei %
men and each park has IT'S full qGoIs;
The rangers help with the cars. neip
supply food and are able to locate
anybody in a park by means oL a
telephone service on which they pr'oe
At the larger parks. such as yellow
stone, community houses are being
erected. Two are now hnisheo' one At
the grand canyon. the other n tne
Park there is an automobile CITY OF
5000 persons.
But the service 10 not alone boost
ing the spring. and summer camps
Winter sports arc being DEVELOPED,
and tourists at this time Of the year
can ski in Lafayette Park, Me. and
indulge in all sorts of snow fesuVi-
ties in Rocky Mountain Park, near
Denver.
When the service secures q far
southern park, such as that proposed
on the Mescalero Indian reservation,
New Mexico, it will be able to offer
the people any sort OF cline in the
United States. At present. II you
want to get warmth during winter in
a national park it is necessary to go
to the Isle Of Hawaii.
As it is. the national parks offer
great ranges of temperature each sea-
son. In the Mount Rainier PARK.
ing up the mountain, to run out OF
summer into winter. In the Sequoia
National Park, by climbing. one can
get the effect Of going to Alaska. In
Zion Park. in southwestern Utah. one
man raises figs in warm CLINE ana
corn in a temperate.
The natural wonders of the parks.
their glorious air, vttalized by nature
with health-givtng properties, and
the efforts of man. as put forth by
the park service for the people. COM
to visit them.
Some day, Mr.. Mather believes. 1t
will be as fashionable to have a wind
shield covered with stickers from the
various parks as it used to be to
have suit case plastered with
European hotel labels.
The parks administered by the
Springs, Arkansas: Yellowstone,
wyoming, Montana and Idaho:
Sequoia, California: Yosemite, Cali
fornia; General Grant, California;
Mount Rainier. Warrington; Crater
Lake, Oregon; Wind Cave. South
Dakota: Platt, Oklahoma; Sullys Hill.
North Dakota: Mesa Verde, Colorado;
Glacier, Montana; Rocky Mountain.
Colorado: Hawaii, Hawaiian islands:
Lassen Volcanic, California; Mount
Mckinley, Alaska; Grand Canyon.
Arizona; Lafayette. Maine, and Zion.
Utah,