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> One of my favorite transformations: Spectacle Island, which doubled in size after being used as a city dump from the 1920s until 1959, is now a national park.
by prottog 4y ago
> One of my favorite transformations: Spectacle Island, which doubled in size after being used as a city dump from the 1920s until 1959, is now a national park.
Nitpick: it's a National Recreation Area, not a (capital) National Park. I suppose in lowercase it carries a different meaning :-)
- lapetitejort 4y agoThe naming scheme used by the National Park Service is so confusing. My only contribution is that "National Park" means funding has been designated via Congress; "National Monument" means designated via the executive branch.
- blamazon 4y agoA nice page with all the various NPS designations: https://www.nps.gov/articles/nps-designations.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/nps-designations.htm TIL of National Preserves and National Reserves, which are different.... The parkways are also somewhat odd. I didn't know NPS operated so many miles of urban roadway.