Question

Why did the Grand Canyon became a national park?

Answer 1

Although the National Park Service wasn't established until 1916, the conservation movement gained momentum nearly a decade earlier when President Theodore Roosevelt began to designate national preserves and monuments, including parts of theGrand Canyon as a nationalmonument in 1908.

Answer 2

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Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World. The park, which covers 1,217,262 acres (1,901.972 sq mi; 4,926.08 km2) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohavecounties, received more than six million recreational visitors in 2017, which is the second highest count of all American national parks after Great Smoky Mountains National Park.[3] The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.