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America Just Got Its First New National Park in Six Years. Here’s What to Know.

Arizona’s brand-new Chiricahua National Park features towering volcanic rock formations and remarkable wildlife.

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One of America’s best ideas was the National Park system. Ulysses S. Grant gets credit for creating the first national park—Yellowstone—in 1872. Theodore Roosevelt later expanded protected public lands during his time in office, essentially creating the public park system as we know it today.

Now, we have officially opened a new national park, the first in six years. Meet Chiricahua National Park, the nation’s 64th........

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