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1 week agoScary Mommy 2026 Readers' Choice Awards Best Budget-Friendly Amusement Park
Local amusement parks offer budget-friendly, historic, and fun alternatives to larger, more expensive parks.
That eminent figure is Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist who founded the Sierra Club and hosted President Theodore Roosevelt on a camping trip in Yosemite in 1903. Muir is called the "father of the national parks," in part because the writing he did in his Martinez study persuaded Americans to see their wilderness areas as treasures to preserve, not as resources to be exploited.