olympic national park became a park on june 29, 1938.
when did olympic national park became a park?
june 29 , 1938
president theodore roosevelt originally designated mount olympus national monument on 2 march 1909. the monument was redesignated as a national park by congress and president franklin roosevelt on june 29, 1938. in 1976, olympic national park was designated by unesco as an international biosphere reserve, and in 1981 as a world heritage site. in 1988, congress designated 95 percent of the park as the olympic wilderness.





























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olympic national park
in 1937, president franklin d. roosevelt visited the olympics to determine their suitability as a national park, and was greeted in port angeles by more than 3000 local school children asking him to ‘give us our olympic national park’. he signed olympic national park into law in 1938. in 1953, the park was enlarged with the addition of the coastal strip, and more coastal areas along lake ozette were added in 1976. also that year, unesco named the park an international biosphere reserve, and a world heritage site in 1981. in 1984, congress designated 5 wilderness areas in the olympic national forest, and declared 95% of olympic national park a wilderness area in 1988.
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