The National Park Service is studying all three of these courses and documenting their histories in order to understand their significance and make plans for their future use and preservation. The third course in the National Capital Parks-East system, Rock Creek Golf Course in Washington, D.C., was opened by President Warren G. East Potomac Park is also home to one of the country’s oldest continuously operating miniature golf courses. The course was built in response to a campaign from members of the black golfing community at a time when nearly all golf facilities were segregated.Ī second course, the East Potomac Park Golf Course, which was built from 1918 to 1923, was part of efforts to desegregate public golf courses in Washington, D.C., in 1941. Langston Golf Course, situated along the Anacostia River, opened in 1939 and was named for John Mercer Langston, the first black American elected to the U.S. Golf courses of historical interest are found in three of those parks. To the south, in the Washington, D.C., area, the National Capital Parks-East comprises numerous parks and historical sites in the nation’s capital and the Maryland suburbs. Like other courses in national parks, Highland Links is on federal land but is managed by a private company.
Highland Links Golf Course in North Truro, Mass., is an authentic links course that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and sits next to the first lighthouse on Cape Cod. Kennedy signed the Cape Cod National Seashore Act. national park first opened in 1892, but it only became part of a national park in August 1961, when President John F. Several national parks have significant turfgrass acreage in addition to their historical and natural features, and some of those parks and a few others also have an unexpected attraction - one or more golf courses. territories, from the coral reefs and rainforests of American Samoa to Alaska’s glaciers, the coastal islands of Maine and the mangrove forests of the U.S. National parks are found in 28 states and two U.S. national parks, however, recall images of natural wonders and grand vistas - geysers in Yellowstone, Half Dome in Yosemite and the canyon in, well, the Grand Canyon. Parks bring to mind turfgrass, picnics and games of catch. A golfer finishes a hole at Langston Golf Course, a historic 18-hole course in Washington, D.C., that’s part of the National Capital Parks-East complex.
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