Great Smoky Mt. Chimney Poster Plateau Capitol Reef National Monument was

Capitol Reef National Monument was created to preserve the landscape and history of this desert oasis

Completed on June 6

Visits to The Wave are administered by the Bureau of Land Management via a lottery system

Improved roads soon followed

the first of which was completed in 1934

Great Smoky Mt. Chimney Poster Plateau Capitol Reef National Monument wasDescription 14" x 22" poster Interpretive Copy Hope for a national park between the cities of Asheville, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee gathered steam in the early 1920s. In May 1926, President Calvin Cooledge signed a bill providing for the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Purchasing the land, however, proved difficult, and years passed before development began. The park was finally dedicated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on