Read Sections 3 to 5. After reading each section, you will create an adventure tour for that park. A tour plan for the Grand Canyon is shown here as an example. It includes a map showing the route the tour will take. Follow these steps to create an adventure tour for each park you read about: Tour Plan for Grand Canyon National Park Stop : Hopi Point Stop 3: Granite Gorge,500 feet,000 feet Rappel down Hopi Wall using rock-climbing equipment Visit Lookout Tower Drive along the South Rim in a four-wheel-drive vehicle spectacular views of the canyon walls the dramatic cliffs of the Inferno Hopi Wall and Salt Creek How you ll get to Stop : four-wheel-drive vehicle White-water rafting on the Colorado through Granite Gorge suspension bridges spanning the river rapids along the Trail and through Granite Gorge How you ll get to Stop 4: raft Stop : El Tovar Hotel Stop 4: Yavapai Point,900 feet,50 feet Have dinner and spend the night at the El Tovar Hotel Take a horseback tour down Bright Angel Trail along Garden Creek Hike Plateau Point and then continue on horseback to the Suspension Bridge on the Colorado Bright Angel Trail winding down,000-foot cliffs Garden Creek at the bottom of the canyon buildings and shops surrounding the South Rim Raft through the rapids Take a helicopter tour over the Colorado, the Natural Arch, O Neill Butte, Yaki Point, and Mather Point Land at Yavapai Point and visit the museum there stunning aerial views of the canyon exhibits on geology and theories on how the Grand Canyon was formed at the Yavapai Point Museum How you ll get to Stop 3: horseback. Turn to the section of Reading Notes for that park.. On the topographic map of that park, draw the route your tour will take. Your tour must: connect all four major stops. Stops are shown with stars. be exciting for tourists. use transportation in an adventurous but realistic way. 3. In the tour plan for that park, use the map and your book to describe how many days you will stay at each location. The total trip can t be more than 0 days. the elevation at each stop (where the red star is). what tourists will do at each stop (any activities your company has planned for them). what tourists will see at each stop (flora, fauna, human features, physical features). how tourists will get to the next stop (mode of transportation). See Step 4. National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 3
4. Decide what kind of transportation tourists will use to get from place to place and for the activities at each stop. Choose from the list below. For each adventure tour, you cannot use any mode of transportation more than once. Grand Canyon National Park (detail) Intermittent stream Roads Buildings Index contour Elevation above sea level Grand Canyon National Park Trail Campground Tour stop Picnic area Contour lines 0 miles 0 kilometers Arizona Distance between contour lines = 80 feet Distance between index contours = 400 feet helicopter hiking gear jet skis rock-climbing equipment kayaks snowshoes rafting gear hang-gliding equipment bicycles horses four-wheel-drive vehicles cross-country skis National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 4
3 Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Follow the directions on pages 3 and 4 to complete the tour plan and map for this park. Tour Plan for Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Stop : Lake McDonald Stop 3: How you ll get to Stop : How you ll get to Stop 4: Stop : Stop 4: How you ll get to Stop 3: National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 5
R E A D I N G N O T E S Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (detail) CO NT INE NT M C LA DO K NAE LD AL Lake Trail Index contour Roads Elevation Buildings Tour stop Glacier National Park Montana Intermittent stream Cascades/ falls Glacier/ snowfield Continental Divide Campground Picnic area Distance between contour lines = 80 feet Distance between index contours = 400 feet 0 Contour lines 0 miles kilometers National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada
4 Prince Edward Island National Park Follow the directions on pages 3 and 4 to complete the tour plan and map for this park. Tour Plan for Prince Edward Island National Park Stop : Green Gables House Stop 3: How you ll get to Stop : How you ll get to Stop 4: Stop : Stop 4: How you ll get to Stop 3: National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 7
Prince Edward Island National Park Cavendish Sandspit New London Bay Trout Gulf of St. Lawrence Cavendish Beach Cavendish Green Gables 400 400 400 Hunter North Rustico Orby Head Trail Roads Building Campground North Rustico Harbour Rustico Island Rustico Bay Brackley Beach Brackley Bay 5 Navigational beacon Park Contour lines Index contour Tour stop 0 3 miles 0 3 kilometers Cape Stanhope Ross Lane Beach Stanhope Beach Covehead Bay Dalvay Stanhope Prince Edward Island National Park Distance between contour lines = feet Distance between index contours = feet Tracadie Bay Hunter Wheatley 7 Winslow 5 Black 5 Winter DuSable DeSable West West 9 Clyde Clyde Cornwall 9 North Charlottetown Hillsborough Stratford 9 Bonshaw 9 West 9 Hillsborough Bay N W E Northumberland Strait S National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 8
5 Yosemite National Park Follow the directions on pages 3 and 4 to complete the tour plan and map for this park. Tour Plan for Yosemite National Park Stop : Lower Yosemite Falls Stop 3: How you ll get to Stop : How you ll get to Stop 4: Stop : Stop 4: How you ll get to Stop 3: National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 9
R E A D I N G N O T E S Yosemite National Park (detail) Upper Yosemite Fall ft. 4,00 0 ft. Lower Yosemite Fall 5,0 00 Mirror Lake 8,84 ft. Half Dome R ME D CE RI R VE 3,500 ft. Y O S E M Campground Intermittent stream Contour lines Trail Index contour Picnic area Elevation Roads Tour stop I T E Yosemite National Park California N Building W 0.5 0 0 0.5 mile kilometer Distance between contour lines = 40 feet Distance between index contours = feet E S National Parks: Saving the Natural Heritage of the U.S. and Canada 0