An Act to establish a national trails system, and for other purposes
PL 90-543 (S.827), enacted 10/02/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-543-OCT. 2, 1968 
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Public Law 90-543 
AN ACT 
October 2, 1968 
To establish a national trails system, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Refresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
National Trails 
System Act. 
SHORT TITLE 
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "National Trails System 
Act". 
STATEMENT OF POLICY 
SEC. 2. (a) In order to provide for the ever-increasing outdoor rec-
reation needs of an expanding population and in order to promote 
public access to, travel within, and enjoyment and appreciation of the 
open-air, outdoor areas of the Nation, trails should be established (i) 
primarily, near the urban areas of the Nation, and (ii) secondarily, 
within established scenic areas more remotely located. 
(b) the purpose of this Act is to provide the means for attaining 
these objectives by instituting a national system of recreation and 
scenic trails, by designating the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific 
Crest Trail as the initial components of that system, and by prescrib-
ing the methods by which, and standards according to which, addi-
tional components may be added to the system. 
NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM 
SEC. 3. The national system of trails shall l)e composed of— 
(a) National recreation trails, established as provided in section 
4 of this Act, which will provide a variety of outd(M)r recreation 
uses in or reasonably accessible to urban areas. 
(b) National scenic trails, established as provided in section 5 of 
this Act, which will be extended trails so located as to provide for 
maximum outdoor recreation potential and for the conservation 
and enjoyment of the nationally significant scenic, historic, natu-
ral, or cultural qualities of the areas through which such trails may 
pass. 
(c) Connecting or side trails, established as provided in section 
6 of this Act, which will provide additional points of public access 
to national recreation or national scenic trails or which will pro-
vide connections l^etween such trails. 
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, in 
consultation with appropriate governmental agencies and public and 
l)rivate organizations, shall establish a uniform marker for the national 
trails system. 
NATIONAL RECREATION TRAILS 
SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Interior, or the Secretary of Agricul-
ture where lands administered by him are involved, may establish and 
designate national recreation trails, with the consent of the Federal 
agency. State, or political subdivision having jurisdiction over the 
lands involved, upon finding that— 
(i) such trails are reasonably accessible to urban areas, and, or 
(ii) such trails meet the criteria established in this Act and 
such supplementary criteria as he may prescribe. 
(b) As provided in this section, trails within park, forest, and other 
recreation areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior or the 
Secretary of Agriculture or in other federally administered areas may 
be established and designated as ''National Kecreation Trails'' by the 
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Rights-of-way. 
Administration. 
Advisory 
councils. 
Members; term 
of office. 
appropriate Secretary and, when no Federal land acquisition is 
involved— 
(i) trails in or reasonably accessible to urban areas may be 
designated as "National Recreation Trails" by the Secretary of the 
Interior with the consent of the States, their political subdivisions, 
or other appropriate administering agencies, and 
(ii) trails within park, forest, and other recreation areas owned 
or administered by States may be designated as "National Recre-
ation Trails" by the Secretary of the Interior with the consent of 
the State. 
NATIONAL SCENIC TRAILS 
SEC. 5. (a) National scenic trails shall be authorized and designated 
only by Act of Congress. There are hereby established as the initial 
National Scenic Trails: 
(1) The Appalachian Trail, a trail of approximately two thousand 
miles extending generally alon^ the Appalachian Mountains from 
Mount Katahdm, Maine, to Sprmger Mountain, Georgia. Insofar as 
practicable, the right-of-way for such trail shall comprise the trail 
depicted on the maps identified as "Nationwide System of Trails, Pro-
posed Appalachian Trail, NST-AT-101-May 1967", which shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the office of the Director of 
the National Park Service. Where practicable, such rights-of-way shall 
include lands protected for it under agreements in effect as of the date 
of enactment of this Act, to which Federal agencies and States were 
parties. The Appalachian Trail shall be administered primarily as a 
lootpath by the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
(2) The Pacific Crest Trail, a trail of approximately two thousand 
three hundred fifty miles, extending from the Mexican-California 
border northward generally along the mountain ranges of the west 
coast States to the Canadian-Washington border near Lake Ross, fol-
lowing the route as generally depicted on the map, identified as 
"Nationwide System of Trails, Proposed Pacific Crest Trail, NST-
PC-103-May 1967" which shall be on file and available for public 
inspection in the offi.ce of the Chief of the Forest Service. The Pacific 
Crest Trail shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Interior. 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall establish an advisory council 
for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, and the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall establish an advisor;^ counoil for the Pacific Crest 
National Scenic Trail. The appropriate Secretary shall consult with 
such council from time to time with respect to matters relating to the 
trail, including the selection of rights-of-way, standards of the erection 
and maintenance of markers along the trail, and the administration of 
the trail. The members of each advisory council, which shall not exceed 
thirty-five in number, shall serve without compensation or expense to 
the Federal Government for a term of five years and shall be appointed 
by the appropriate Secretary as follows: 
(i) A member appointed to represent each Federal department 
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trail route passes and each appointee shall be the person designated 
by the head of such department or agency; 
(ii) A member appointed to represent each State through which 
the trail passes and such appointments shall be made from recom-
mendations of the Governors of such States; 
(iii) One or more members appointed to represent private orga-
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nizations, including landowners and land users, that, in the opinion 
of the Secretary, have an established and recognized interest in the 
trail and such appointments shall be made from recommendations 
studies. 
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of the heads of such organizations: Provided,, That the Appala-
chian Trail Conference shall be represented by a sufficient number 
of persons to represent the various sections of the country through 
which the Appalachian Trail passes; and 
(iv) The Secretary shall designate one member to be chairman 
and shall fill vacancies in the same manner as the original 
appointment. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture 
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where lands administered by him are involved, s:hall make such addi-
tional studio as are herein or may hereafter be authorized by the 
Congress for the purpose of determining the feasibility and desira-
bility of desigiiating other trails as national scenic trails. Such studies 
shall be made in consultation with the heads of other Federal agencies 
administering lands through which such additional proposed trails 
would pass and in cooperation with interested interstate. State, and 
local governmental agencies, public and private organizations, and 
landowners and land users concerned. When completed, such studies ^^^fp"*"^ J-°„r'^^^^' 
shall be the basis of appropriate proposals for additional national 
scenic trails which shall be submitted from time to time to the Presi-
dent and to the Congress. Such proposals shall be accompanied by a 
report, which shall be printed as a House or Senate document, showing 
among other things— 
(1) the proposed route of such trail (including maps and illus-
trations) ; 
(2) the areas adjacent to such trails, to be utilized for scenic, 
historic, natural, cultural, or developmental, purposes; 
(3) the characteristics which, in the judgment of the appro-
priate Secretary, make the proposed trail worthy of designation 
as a national scenic trail; 
(4) the current status of land ownership and current and poten-
tial use alon^ the designated route; 
(5) the estimated cost of acquisition of lands or interest in lands, 
(6) the plans for developing and maintaining the trail and the 
cost thereof; 
(7) the proposed Federal administering agency (which, in the 
case of a national scenic trail wholly or substantially within a 
national forest, shall be the Department of Agriculture); 
(8) the extent to which a State or its political subdivisions and 
public and private organizations might reasonably be expected to 
participate in acquiring the necessary lands and in the administra-
tion thereof; and 
(9) the relative uses of the lands involved, including: the num-
ber of anticipated visitor-days for the entire length of, as well as 
for segments of, such trail; the number of months which such trail, 
or segments thereof, will be open for recreation purposes; the eco-
nomic and social benefits which might accrue from alternate land 
uses; and the estimated man-years of civilian employment and ex-
penditures expected for the purposes of maintenance, supervision, 
and regulation of such trail. 
(c) The following routes shall be studied in accordance with the 
objectives outlined in subsection (b) of this section: 
(1) Continental Divide Trail, a three-thousand-one-hundred-mile 
trail extending from near the Mexican border in southwestern New 
Mexico northward generally along the Continental Divide to the 
Canadian border in Glacier National Park. 
(2) Potomac Heritage Trail, an eight-hundred-and-twenty-five-mile 
trail extending generally from the mouth of the Potomac Eiver to its 
sources in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including the one-
hundred-and-seventy-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath. 
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(3) Old Cattle Trails of the Southwest from the vicinity of San 
Antonio, Texas, approximately eight hundred miles through Okla-
homa via Baxter Springs and Chetopa, Kansas, to Fort Scott, Kansas, 
including the Chisholm Trail, from the vicinity of San Antonio or 
Cuero, Texas, approximately eight hundred miles north through Okla-
homa to Abilene, Kansas. 
(4) Lewis and Clark Trail, from Wood River, Illinois, to the Pacific 
Ocean in Oregon, following both the outbound and inbound routes of 
the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 
(5) Natchez Trace, from Nashville, Tennessee, approximately six 
hundred miles to Natchez, Mississippi. 
(6) North Country Trail, from the Appalachian Trail in Vermont, 
approximately three thousand two hundred miles through the States of 
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 
to the Lewis and Clark Trail in North Dakota. 
(7) Kittanning Trail from Shirleysburg in Huntingdon County to 
Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. 
(8) Oregon Trail, from Independence, Missouri, approximately two 
tliousand miles to near Fort Vancouver, Washington. 
(9) Santa Fe Trail, from Independence, Missouri, approximately 
eight hundred miles to Sante Fe, New Mexico. 
(10) Long Trail, extending two hundred and fifty-five miles from 
the Massachusetts border northward through Vermont to the Canadian 
border. 
(11) Mormon Trail, extending from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake 
City, Utah, through the States of Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming. 
(12) Gold Rush Trails in Alaska. 
(13) Mormon Battalion Trail, extending two thousand miles from 
Mount Pisgah, Iowa, through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and 
Arizona to Los Angeles, California. 
(14) El Camino Real from St. Augustine to San Mateo, Florida, 
approximately 20 miles along the southern boundary of the St. Johns 
River from Fort Caroline National Memorial to the St. Augustine Na-
tional Park Monument. 
CONNECTING AND SIDE TRAILS 
SEC. 6. Connecting or side trails within park, forest, and other recrea-
tion areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of 
Agriculture may be established, designated, and marked as components 
Gi a national recreation or national scenic trail. When no Federal land 
acquisition is involved, connecting or side trails may be located across 
lands administered by interstate, State, or local governmental agencies 
with their consent: Fro aided. That such trails provide additional 
lioints of pviblic access to national recreation or scenic trails. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT 
SEC. 7. (a) Pursuant to section 5(a), the appropriate Secretary shall 
select the rights-of-way for National Scenic Trails and shall publish 
notice thereof in the Federal Register, together with appropriate maps 
and descriptions: Provided^ That in selecting the rights-of-w^ay full 
consideration shall be given to minimizing the adverse effects upon the 
adjacent landowner or user and his operation. Development and man-
agement of each segment of the National Trails System shall be 
designed to harmonize with and complement any established multiple-
use plans for that specific area in order to insure continued maximum 
benefits from the land. The location and width of such rights-of-way 
across Federal lands under the jurisdiction of another Federal agency 
shall be by agreement between the head of that agency and the appro-
Motorized ve -
h i d e s ; prohibi-
tion, exceptions. 
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priate Secretary. In selecting rights-of-way for trail purposes, the Sec-
retary shall obtain the advice and assistance of the States, local govern-
ments, private organizations, and landowners and land users concerned. 
(b) After publication of notice in the Federal Kegister, together ri^h^tl"^.^^';;" ^[^ 
with appropriate maps and descriptions, the Secretary charged with termination'!' 
the administration of a national scenic trail may relocate segments of a 
national scenic trail right-of-way, with the concurrence of the head of 
the Federal agency having jurisdiction over the lands involved, upon 
a determination that: (i) such a relocation is necessary to preserve 
the purposes for which the trail was established, or (ii) the relocation 
is necessary to promote a sound land management program in accord-
ance with established multiple-use principles: Provided, That a sub-
stantial relocation of the rights-of-way for such trail shall be by Act 
of Congress. 
(c) National scenic trails may contain campsites, shelters, and re- ^^a^fg"^'"^'' °" 
lated-public-use facilities. Other uses along the trail, which will not 
substantially interfere with the nature and purposes of the trail, may 
be permitted by the Secretary charged with the administration of the 
trail. Reasonable efforts shall be made to provide sufficient access op-
portunities to such trails and, to the extent practicable, efforts shall be 
made to avoid activities incompatible with the purposes for which such 
trails were established. The use of motorized vehicles by the general 
public along any national scenic trail shall be prohibited and nothing 
in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the use of motorized ve-
hicles within the natural and historical areas of the national park sys-
tem, the national wildlife refuge system, the national wilderness preser-
vation system where they are presently prohibited or on other Federal 
lands where trails are designated as being closed to such use by the 
appropriate Secretary: Provided, That the Secretary charged w4th the 
administration of such trail shall establish regulations which shall 
authorize the use of motorized vehicles when, in his judgment, such 
vehicles are necessary to meet emergencies or to enable adjacent land-
owners or land users to have reasonable access to their lands or timber 
rights: Provided further, That private lands included in the national 
recreation or scenic trails by cooperative agreement of a landowner 
shall not preclude such owner from using motorized vehicles on or 
across such trails or adjacent lands from time to time in accordance 
with regulations to be established by the appropriate Secretary. The 
uniform markers. 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, in con-
sultation with appropriate governmental agencies and public and pri-
vate organizations, shall establish a uniform marker, including there-
on an appropriate and distinctive symbol for each national recreation 
and scenic trail. Where the trails cross lands administered by Federal 
agencies such markers shall be erected at appropriate points along the 
trails and maintained by the Federal agency administering the trail in 
accordance with standards established by the appropriate Secretary 
and where the trails cross non-Federal lands, in accordance with writ-
ten cooperative agreements, the appropriate Secretary shall provide 
such uniform markers to cooperatni^ agencies and shall require such 
agencies to erect and maintain them in accordance with the standards 
established. 
(d) Within the exterior boundaries of areas under their adminis- iands^"use'°" °^ 
tration that are included in the right-of-way selected for a national ^" ^' "^^ 
recreation or scenic trail, the heads of Federal agencies may use lands 
for trail purposes and may acquire lands or interests in lands by 
written cooperative agreement, donation, purchase with donated or 
appropriated funds or exchange: Provided, 
That not more than ,,^„"^^^^ 
iimita-
twenty-five acres in any one mile may be acquired without the consent 
of the owner. 
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Right-of-way 
lands outside ex-
terior boundries. 
Property suit-
able for exchange. 
Use of con-
demnation pro-
ceedings to 
acquire private 
lands. 
Limitation. 
Pacific Crest 
Trail. 
Lands within 
federally admin-
istered areas. 
(e) Where the lands included in a national scenic trail right-of-
way are outside of the exterior boundaries of federally administered 
areas, the Secretary charged with the administration of such trail shall 
encourage the States or local governments involved (1) to enter into 
written cooperative agreements with landowners, private organiza-
tions, and individuals to provide the necessary trail right-of-way, or 
(2) to acquire such lands or interests therein to be utilized as segments 
of the national scenic trail: Provided^ That if the State or local gov-
ernments fail to enter into such written cooperative agreements or to 
acquire such lands or interests therein within two years after notice of 
the selection of the right-of-way is published, the appropriate Secre-
tary may (i) enter into such agreements with landowners, States, local 
governments, private organizations, and individuals for the use of 
lands for trail purposes, or (ii) acquire private lands or interests 
therein by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds or 
exchange in accordance with the provisions of subsection (g) of this 
section. The lands involved in such rights-of-way should be acquired 
in fee, if other methods of public control are not sufficient to assure 
their use for the purpose for which they are acquired: Provided^ That 
if the Secretary cnarged with the administration of such trail perman-
ently relocates the right-of-way and disposes of all title or interest in 
the land, the original owner, or his heirs or assigns, shall be otfered, by 
notice given at the former owners last known address, the right of hrst 
refusal at the fair market price. 
(f) The Secretary of the Interior, in the exercise of his exchange 
authority, may accept title to any non-Federal property within the 
right-of-way and in exchange therefor he may convey to the grantor of 
such property any federally owned property under his jurisdiction 
w^hich is located in the State wherein such property is located and which 
he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal. The values of 
the properties so exchanged either shall be approximately equal, or if 
they are not approximately equal the values shall be equalized by the 
payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the circumstances 
require. The Secretary of Agriculture, in the exercise of his exchange 
authority, may utilize authorities and procedures available to him in 
connection with exchanges of national forest lands. 
(g) The appropriate Secretary may utilize condemnation proceed-
ings without the consent of the owner to acquire private lands or in-
terests therein pursuant to this section only in cases where, in his judg-
ment, all reasonable eiforts to acquire such lands or interests therein bv 
negotiation have failed, and in such cases he shall acquire only sucli 
title as, in his judgment, is reasonably necessary to provide passage 
across such lands: Provided^ That condemnation proceedings may not 
be utilized to acquire fee title or lesser interests to more tlian twenty-
five acres in any one mile and when used such authority shall be limited 
to the most direct or practicable connecting trail right-of-way: Pro-
vided further. 
That condemnation is prohibited with resjject to all 
acquisition of lands or interest in lands for the purposes of the Pacific 
Crest Trail. Money appropriated for Federal purposes from the land 
and water conservation fund shall, without prejudice to appropria-
tions from other sources, be available to Federal departments for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands for the purposes of this Act. 
(h) The Secretary charged with the administration of a national 
recreation or scenic trail shall provide for the development and main-
tenance of such trails within federally administered areas and shall 
cooperate with and encourage the States to operate, develop, and main-
tain portions of such trails which are located outside the boundaries 
of federally administered areas. When deemed to be in the public in-
terest, such Secretary may enter written cooperative agreements with 
the States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private organi-
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zations, or individuals to operate, develop, and maintain any portion 
of a national scenic trail either within or outside a federally admin-
istered area. 
Whenever the Secretary of the Interior makes any conveyance of re?ifvItx°oir^^ 
land under any of the public land laws, he may reserve a right-of-way 
for trails to the extent he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this Act. 
(i) The appropriate Secretary, with the concurrence of the heads of 
Regulations. 
any other Federal agencies administering lands through which a na-
tional recreation or scenic trail passes, and after consultation with the 
States, local governments, and organizations concerned, may issue regu-
lations, which may be revised from time to time, governing the use, 
protection, management, development, and administration of trails of 
the national trails system. In order to maintain good conduct on and 
Publication. 
along the trails located within federally administered areas and to 
provide for the proper government and protection of such trails, the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall pre-
scribe and publish such uniform regulations as they deem necessary 
and any person w^ho violates such regulations shall he guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and may be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by Penalty 
imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such tine and im-
prisonment. 
STATE AND ME'IT.OPOLITAN AREA lltAlLS 
SEC. 8. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is directed to encourage 
States to consider, in their comprehensive statewide outdoor recreation 
plans and proposals for financial assistance for State and local projects 
submitted pursuant to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, [^ sta^ 897-^ 
needs and opportunities for establishing park, forest, and other recrea- note. 
tion trails on lands owned or administered by States, and recreation 
trails on lands in or near urban areas. He is further directed, in accord-
ance with the authority contained in the Act of May 28, 1963 (77 Stat. 
49), to encourage States, political subdivisions, and private interests, ^^QIY^^^ '*^°^' 
including nonprofit organizations, to establish such trails. 
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is directed, 
in administering the program of comprehensive urban planning and 
assistance under section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954, to encourage yg^starV//-^' 
the planning of recreation trails in connection with the recreation and si stat. 262.' 
transportation planning for metropolitan and other urban areas. He 
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is further directed, in administering the urban open-space program 
under title VII of the Housing Act of 1961, to encourage such recrea- 
J^ sta^ ua^ 
tion trails. 
et seq. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture is directed, in accordance with 
authority vested in him, to encourage States and local agencies and 
private interests to establish such trails. 
(d) Such trails may be designated and suitably marked as parts of 
the nationwide system of trails hj the States, their political subdi-
visions, or other appropriate administering agencies with the approval 
of the Secretary of the Interior. 
Suitable mark-
ings. 
RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER 
PROPERTIES 
SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agri-
culture as the case may be, may grant easements and rights-of-way 
upon, over, under, across, or along any component of the national trails 
system in accordance with the laws applicable to the national park sys-
tem and the national forest system, respectively: Provided, That any 
conditions contained in such easements and rights-of-way shall be 
related to the policy and purposes of this Act. 
Easements and 
rights-of-way. 
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Fede°r°ara^ln°c"ie°s 
^^^ "^^^^ Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, 
gencies. 
^j^^ Interstate Connnerce Connnission, the Federal Communications 
Commission, the Federal Power Commission, and other Federal agen-
cies having jurisdiction or control over or information concerning the 
use, abandonment, or disposition of roadways, utility rights-of-w^ay, or 
other properties which may be suitable for the purpose of improving 
or expanding the national trails system shall cooperate with the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture in order to 
assure, to the extent practicable, that any such properties having 
values suitable for trail purposes may be made available for such use. 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 10. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands not more than $5,000,000 for 
the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and not more than $500,000 for 
the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. 
Approved October 2, 1968. 
Public Law 90-544 
October 2, 1968 
AN ACT 
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q\i establish the North Cascades National Park and Ross Lake and Lake Chelan 
National Recreation Areas, to designate the Pasayten AVilderness and to modify 
the Glacier Peak Wilderness, in the State of Washington, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatices 
of the 
. ^**'^ °^ Wash- 
United States of America in Congress 
assembled. 
xngton. 
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Certain recrea-
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TITLE I—NOKTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK 
Establishment. 
SEC. 101. In order to preserve for the benefit, use, and inspiration 
of present and future generations certain majestic mountain scenery, 
snow fields, glaciers, alpine meadows, and other unique natural features 
in the North Cascade Mountains of the State of Washington, there is 
hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the North Cascades 
National Park (hereinafter referred to in this Act as the "park"). 
The park shall consist of the lands, waters, and interests therein 
within the area designated "national park'' on the map entitled "Pro-
posed Management Units, North Cascades, Washington," numbered 
NP-CAS-7002, and dated October 1967. The map shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the office of the Director, National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior, and in the office of the Chief, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.