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May.6.2021
Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park has been designated an International Dark Sky Park, making it the 100th location to receive this honor.
Designation as a Dark Sky Park is a recognition from both the National Park Service and the International Dark-Sky Association of a park’s high-quality views of night skies. This recognition helps the park instigate new astronomy education resources for visitors and improves the quality of its already grand night sky viewing.
“This recognition is the result of great work accomplished by employees of Mesa Verde National Park and the Mesa Verde Museum Association,” Park Superintendent Cliff Spencer said in a statement. “National parks are some of the best places in America to see a breathtaking array of stars, planets, and neighboring galaxies.”
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New citizens naturalized in ceremony at Joshua Tree National Park
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-05-05 16:08:39-04
More than two dozen people became U.S. citizens this week at Californiaâs Joshua Tree National Park.
Under sunny skies, 25 people started the ceremony by saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
This is the first time a naturalization ceremony has been held at the national park. You know, it s it s, it s an emotional day for me to see these people welcome, to look at their families, to look at their siblings with them, celebrating this special day with them. It just warms my heart,â said David Smith, the Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent.
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Unless you know something we don’t, your chances of coming across an actual alien spacecraft in the middle of the desert are pretty slim. But thanks to Airbnb, you can at least pretend to.
The Area 55 Futuro house is a 520-square-foot red ellipsoid located in the middle of California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Though it’s not the only one of its kind, it’s the only one in the U.S. that you can rent for a few nights’ stay. According to Thrillist, Futuro houses were conceived and constructed by a Finnish architect named Matti Suuronen in 1968, when the world was captivated by the space race and futuristic architecture was all the rage. Suuronen originally intended his innovation to function as a skiers’ hut that could easily sit on a mountain and avoid snow pileup on its round roof. While one Futuro house in Dombay, Russia, is occupied by visiting skiers to this day, the other 80 or so are scattered in random locations and used for random purposes (or no purpose