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Reader Participation Day: What is the Most Iconic Image Associated With the National Park System?

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By Kurt Repanshek - December 8th, 2010

Would you say Half Dome is the most iconic image associated with national parks? Photo copyright QT Luong, www.terragalleria.com/parks, used with permission.

Yellowstone has Old Faithful, in Yosemite looms Half Dome, and Arches has Delicate Arch.

Those are just three settings that are readily identified with national parks. But which view in the National Park System do you think is the most iconic of all when talk turns to parks?

Do you think of the bison that is on the Interior Department logo or on the National Park Service shield? What about the presidential images chiseled into Mount Rushmore?

Tell us, what is the most iconic image of the National Park System?

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Submitted by y_p_w on December 9, 2010 - 4:50pm.

Dave Crowl:
National Park Foundation already uses the Ranger Hat. I think the arrow head is iconic but I bet if they were to choose a new symbol they would avoid the arrowhead for its native American reference.

I didn't get any sense that the arrowhead was controversial. My understanding is that it represents "historical and archeological values".


Submitted by Sabattis on December 9, 2010 - 10:57pm.

My first thought was Lady Liberty as well, but how about this nomine.... Martin Luther KIng Jr. standing at a podium in front of the Lincoln Memorial - or the shot of the vast crowds participating in the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" lining West Potomac Park along the reflecting pool?


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