What is the smallest park in the National Park System?
Several parks in the System are one acre or less. They include five sites in New York City; Castle Clinton National Monument, Federal Hall National Memorial, General Grant National Memorial, Hamilton Grange National Memorial, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site. Two sites are in the District of Columbia: Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, and Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site. The others are the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (Mass.), and Thaddeus Kosciuzko National Memorial (Pa.). Q: Why aren= t all the parks in the system called A National Parks?@ A: There are over twenty separate designations comprising the nomenclature of the National Park System: National Parks, National Monuments, National Memorials, National Recreation Areas, National Preserves, National Historic Sites, National Battlefields, and so forth. The designations are not used according to a rigid set of rules. Names were added from time to time to the park
