Yellowstone Highway (yellow and gray bands, black letters Y. H.), from Denver to East Entrance of Yellowstone Park, 638 miles.

Y-G Bee Line Highway, from Yellowstone to Glacier National Park via Great Falls, 355 miles.

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Great Variety of Camping Sites

The National Parks and Forests, the State Parks and Forests, and the Municipal Camping Parks offer a great variety of camping sites for the motor-camping tourist. The accommodations offered in the National Parks and Forests are, for the most part, more remote than any other class of camping sites, and the facilities offered consist mainly of fireplaces, and, in some cases, of simple [[181]]shelters also. The State Parks and Forests are much more limited in extent than the National Parks and Forests, but they are becoming very numerous. The State Parks and Forests, however, usually do not offer much more than camping privileges, though some states—New York, for example—make some provision for campers, building fireplaces and rude shelters.

It is the municipal camping parks that are most numerous and that make most extensive provision for the comfort of the touring camper. Many cities like Denver and Los Angeles expend large sums of money in the equipment of extensive camping parks that in the course of a season entertain many thousands of campers.

These various sorts of camping sites with the facilities offered are shown in tabulated form by states in the following chapter, so that the reader by looking for a given state in its alphabetical place can see what National Parks and Forests it may have, what State Parks and Forests, and what municipalities within its bounds make provision for campers. The tabulated list will also show what accommodations are offered by each site listed.

The National Parks and Forests—Four Times the Area of New England

Few people realize the extent of our National Parks and Forests. They embrace an area of about [[182]]one hundred and seventy-five million acres, which is equivalent to nearly four times the area of New England.

While located mostly in the Rocky Mountain region and in the states of the Pacific Slope they are also found in some of the states of the Atlantic Coast.