US National Parks

National Parks in the United States is a classification of protected areas of the United States. Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the world in 1872, there was no state government to manage it, so the federal government assumed direct control. Yosemite National Park began as a state park the land for the park was donated by the federal government to the State of California in 1864 for perpetual conservation. Yosemite was later returned to federal ownership.