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home to white-tailed deer, black bear and bobcats, as well as abundant wildflowers and birdlife.
Skyline Drive, the 105-mile scenic byway, runs the length of the park providing spectacular views from any of the 75 overlooks.
Congress authorized the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 to celebrate the nation’s legacy of conservation. The legislation recalls noteworthy steps in the nation’s preservation movement and quotes Theodore Roosevelt who said that nothing short of defending this country in wartime “compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”
The legislation directs the Mint to strike and issue 56 circulating quarter-dollars with reverse (tails side) designs showcasing a national park or other national site in each state, the District of Columbia and
U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa,
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