America's State Parks is a strategic alliance formed in 2010 of all 50

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systems, the

National Association of State Park Directors National Association of State Park Directors is an organization dedicated to the preservation of state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "Federated state, state ...

(NASPD). America's State Parks is committed to giving a unified voice to all of the country's state park systems in Washington and national politics. America's State Parks ensures that the national and natural treasures are protected and that the voice from each state park visitor is heard. As the founder of the

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, has said, "Who will gainsay that the parks contain the highest potentialities of national pride, national contentment, and national health? A visit inspires love of country; begets contentment; engenders pride of possession; contains the antidote for national restlessness...He is a better citizen with a keener appreciation of the privilege of living here who has toured the nation's parks." The First Day Hikes program of free, guided

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in state parks across all fifty states is conducted under the aegis of America's State Parks.

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National Association of State Park Directors
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