National Recreation Area

National Recreation Area (NRA ), German: National Recreation Area, is a category designation for nationally important protected areas in the United States of America. Often it is in these areas are large natural or artificial water reservoirs, where the focus is on water-related leisure activities of broad social layers. The protection status corresponds to IUCN definition to that of a German nature parks. In addition to the National Recreation Areas different states have in their field and State Recreation Areas established ( for example, in Illinois, the Kickapoo State Recreation Area, which has the status of a State Park ).

Management

The NRA are under the administration of the U.S. federal authority National Park Service. The maintenance is done, however, by different federal agencies are subject to the most (such as the NPS or the Bureau of Land Management) of the U.S. Department of Interior, or (as the U.S. Forest Service ) to the Ministry of Agriculture.

History

The first as a National Recreation Area designated area was the Boulder Dam Recreation Area (later renamed Lake Mead National Recreation Area ). The early NRA were still set by agreements between the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service. It was not until 1963, a company founded advisory committee to the U.S. President in recovery questions ( President's Recreation Advisory Committee) binding criteria for National Recreation Areas, and demanded that the future of the Congress of the United States should be responsible for the designation of new areas. The first proven by a formal statute of Congress NRA was then 1964, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The first is under management of the U.S. Forest Service NRA was the year after the Spruce Knob - Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area. In 1972, the Congress established the National Park Service managed Gateway National Recreation Area as the first "urban national park". The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in October 2000 were reclassified to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

List of sites

  • Middle Delaware National Scenic River
  • Grand Canyon National Monument Parashant

Former National Recreation Areas

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