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Pack your bags and get ready for a fascinating tour of America's national parks and their charming historic lodges. Built in the untamed landscape of the American West, they were the vision of early park enthusiasts, architects, and entrepreneurs.
Status
Ended
Type
Documentary
Seasons
2
Episodes
6
4 episodes
2 episodes

Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

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