Prairie Creek Visitor Center

The most impressive achievement of the CCC was the construction of the "concession and recreation building" which is now the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park Visitor Center. With the exception of the window lights, plumbing, and chimney flue, all the ...

Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Ranchers and homesteaders pre-empted most of the lands bordering on Prairie Creek, north of Orick, in the 1880s and 1890s, with the rest of the area now included in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park being staked out as mining and ...

Big Prairie

One attribute that the east and west sides of the park have in common is a major problem with exotic plant species. In the North fork prairies, leafy spurge and yellow toadflax have invaded disturbed areas and pose a major ...

Prairie Land

The vast prairies of Illinois intimidated the frontier settlers that arrived here in the early 1800's. Pioneers worried about horrendous grass fires, bitter winter winds, scarcity of water, and deadly fumes seeping from the ground. The early settlers gradually learned, ...

Prairie

A year-round palette of colors

A sea of grasses and wildflowers - the tallgrass prairie - once covered America's heartland. It is now one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, and many of its inhabitants are struggling to survive.

Thousands ...

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park

The area of Payne's Prairie is rich in history.The many archaeological sites within or adjacent to the prairie demonstrate that it was used by Native Americans at least 7,000 years ago. Cuscowilla, one of the largest and earliest (ca. 1740-1830) ...

National Historic Landmark-Huffman Prairie Flying Field

National Historic Landmark- Huffman Prairie Flying Field

The Huffman Prairie Flying Field is the site used by the Wright Brothers from 1904 to 1905 to develop and test the world's first practical airplane, the Wright Flyer III.

It was on this ...

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park

This preserve protects one of the largest remaining stretches of Florida dry prairie, home to an array of endangered plants and animals. While driving the five-mile-long road into the park, visitors can enjoy sweeping vistas of grasslands reminiscent of the ...

Welcome to the Prairie

You have arrived at the only unit in the National Park Service dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Tallgrass prairie once covered a vast region that stretched from Mexico into Canada. Today, only a small fraction - perhaps less than ...