[PCA] NEWS: America's Newest National Park Declared

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/americas-newest-national-park-declared-175056222.html

America's Newest National Park Declared
By Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor | LiveScience.com -- 
Fri, Jan 11, 2013

Pinnacles National Monument in California was signed into law as the 
United States' 59th and newest national park, now bearing the name 
Pinnacles National Park.

The new park, with its spectacular rock formations, beautiful spring 
wildflowers and group of endangered condors, is a popular tourist 
attraction, located in the Gabilan Mountains east of central California's 
Salinas Valley, according to a statement from the Department of the 
Interior. The park encompasses 27,000 acres of wild lands.

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