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Unique-Public-8594 t1_iqtn1s6 wrote

Ok. I’m confused. Isn’t Acadia the only National Park in New England?

But then there is this, 16 in Massachusetts: https://www.parkrangerjohn.com/national-parks-in-massachusetts/

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dew2459 t1_iqujljs wrote

The sites in MA are all parks run by the National Park Service.

Many get different formal titles - "national battlefield", "national historic site", "national parkway". Some people get loudly obsessed that there is some special , well defined process that gets a park the title "National Park" (there isn't, it is a political decision).

For example, the St. Louis arch, basically a city park, is titled "Gateway Arch National Park", and presumably that makes it super-special and more important than Minuteman National Historic Park (/s). Though to be fair, it is true that many of the parks titled "National Park" are amongst the more interesting NPS nature parks.

There are no national parks with that title "XXX National Park" in MA. They have formal names like "XXX National Historic Park" or "YYY National Seashore", but (again) they are all "national park units" run by the same National Park Service.

Of course, YMMV on how much that formal title matters.

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NoMoLerking t1_iqttlbw wrote

National parks are natural parks. There are also national historical parks like the Saugus iron works and the mills in Lowell.

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_iqtvd2t wrote

But the post and my link title say 16 National Parks in Mass, not Natural Parks.

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