There seem to be countless national park stories in the media about "best this" or "best that," or "most underrated" park. More often than not, those stories revolve around the 63 "national parks" that go into the 428 units of the National Park System. What about the remaining 365 units? Let's take a look at some of the most overlooked parks in that universe.
Valles Caldera is a mountainous, forested landscape broken by sweeps of grasslands and which in places rises more than 11,000 feet in northern New Mexico. It is also, figuratively, a not quite 90,000-acre blank canvas upon which the National Park Service is working to create what it envisions will be a masterpiece.
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Valles Caldera National Preserve Added To List Of Parks With ‘Significant Thermal Features’ Under Geothermal Steam Act - 10:55 am
Sulphur Springs in VCNP contains volcanic features like sulfuric-acid hot springs, volcanic fumaroles and steaming mud-pots, and supports a range of ‘extremophile’ algae and bacteria living in the high-temperature acidic pool and stream environments. Courtesy/Seth Gayner
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JEMEZ SPRINGS – The National Park Service has added Valles Caldera National Preserve to the list of parks with “significant thermal features” under the Geothermal Steam Act.
The Preserve is only the 17th park unit to make the nationwide list.
Valles Caldera was nominated for recognition in 2016, and following a public review and comment period, received nearly unanimous public and tribal support.
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