National Recreation Area

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National Recreation Area ( NRA ), German: National Recreation Area , is a category designation for nationally important protected areas in the United States of America . Often these areas are large natural or artificial water reservoirs , where the focus is on water-related leisure activities of broad sections of the population. According to the IUCN definition, theprotection status corresponds roughly tothat of a German nature park . In addition to the National Recreation Areas, various states have also established State Recreation Areas in their area(for example,the Kickapoo State Recreation Area in Illinois , which has the status of a state park ).

The NRA are under the administration of the US federal agency National Park Service . However, maintenance is carried out by various federal agencies, most of which (such as the NPS or the Bureau of Land Management ) are subordinate to the US Department of the Interior or (such as the US Forest Service ) to the Department of Agriculture .

history

The first area designated as a National Recreation Area was the Boulder Dam Recreation Area (later renamed Lake Mead National Recreation Area ). The early NRAs were established through agreements between the US Bureau of Reclamation and the National Park Service. It was not until 1963 that the President's Recreation Advisory Committee set up binding criteria for National Recreation Areas and demanded that the United States Congress be responsible for designating new areas. The first NRA to be designated by a formal statute of Congress was the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 1964 . The first NRA under the administration of the US Forestry Administration became the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area the following year . In 1972, Congress established the Gateway National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service, as the first “urban national park”. The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area was rededicated in October 2000 to Cuyahoga Valley National Park .

List of areas

Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Surname State
Amistad National Recreation Area Texas
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area Kentucky , Tennessee
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area Montana , Wyoming
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Massachusetts
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area Georgia
Chickasaw National Recreation Area Oklahoma
Curecanti National Recreation Area Colorado
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area New Jersey , Pennsylvania
Gateway National Recreation Area New York , New Jersey
Gauley River National Recreation Area West Virginia
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Utah , Arizona
Golden Gate National Recreation Area California
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area Oregon , Idaho
Lake Chelan National Recreation Area Washington
Lake Mead National Recreation Area Nevada , Arizona
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area Texas
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Washington
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Minnesota
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area Oregon
Mount Rogers National Recreation Area Virginia
Ross Lake National Recreation Area Washington
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area California
Sawtooth National Recreation Area Idaho
Smith River National Recreation Area California
Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area California
Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area Vermont
White Mountains National Recreation Area Alaska
Former National Recreation Areas
Surname Establishment Desedication Result
Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area December 27, 1974 October 11, 2000 rededicated to Cuyahoga Valley National Park .
Shasta Lake Recreation Area May 22, 1945 July 1, 1948 transferred to the US Forest Service.
Lake Texoma Recreation Area April 18, 1946 June 30, 1949 returned to the US Army Corps of Engineers .
Millerton Lake Recreation Area May 22, 1945 November 1, 1957 transferred to the state of California.
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area July 22, 1963 1st October 1968 transferred to the Forest Service.
Shadow Mountain Recreation Area June 27, 1952 March 1, 1979 transferred to the Forest Service.

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