r/news • u/boywithhat • 14h ago

Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona is officially named the newest US national park

https://www.kold.com/2026/10/21/chiricahua-national-monument-officially-named-countrys-newest-national-park/
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u/Alexispinpgh 11h ago

Dammit! My spouse and I are National Parks completists and we were sure we’d covered all of the Arizona parks in our trip to all the Four Corbers states a few years ago. Now we have to go back.

(In all seriousness, I am always happy for new national parks, especially in the Southwest where land preservation is so vital.)

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u/sillyhillsofnz 10h ago

You've been to American Samoa National Park then? How was it?

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u/Alexispinpgh 10h ago

Oh we’re still in the process of visiting all the parks, we only started about 7 years ago and can only take one or two trips a year. We’ve visited 28 parks so far.