President Biden added 10 national park units. Seven are historic civil rights sites: Amache NHS, Blackwell School NHS, Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School NM, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley NM, Frances Perkins NM, New Philadelphia NHS, and Springfield 1908 Race Riot NM. And three are national scenic trails: Ice Age, New England and North Country NSTs.
President Biden’s parks legacy is now complete, and overall he’s accomplished more than the first term of his predecessor, who approved five small park units, cut Bears Ears & Grand Escalante by over a million acres, and removed 19 US Biospheres from UNESCO. Biden doubled the scenic trails units from three to six, and his parks help protect the history of American Concentration Camps, desegregation in education, the Underground Railroad, and Black History.
Biden has also made many other changes that don’t affect the official total of park units.
- Elevated to national historical parks
- Created new national monuments
- Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada
- Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni in Arizona
- Camp Hale Continental Divide in Colorado
- Castner Range in El Paso Texas (no current public access due to unexploded ordnance)
- Expanded existing national monuments in California
- San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles
- Berryessa Snow Mountain in Lake County
- Restored protections
- Bears Ears in Utah
- Boundary Waters in Minnesota
- Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah and Arizona
- NE Canyons & Seamounts (south of Cape Cod)
- Tongass National Forest in Alaska
- Limited exploitation and protected wildlife
- Aransas and Big Boggy in Texas
- Bristol Bay in Alaska
- Chaco Canyon in New Mexico
- Chumash Marine in California
- Everglades in Florida
- Lost Trail in Montana
- Muleshoe in New Mexico and Texas
- Paint Rock River in Tennessee
- Roanoke River in North Carolina
- Thompson Divide in Colorado
- Wyoming Toad
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