* 1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.

Norway is now preparing to apply for nomination as a World Heritage Site for areas with traces and traditions of reindeer hunting in Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Reinheimen National Park and Rondane National Park in Central Sør-Norge ( Southern Norway ).

Rondane National Park, which lies partially in Dovre, was the first Norwegian National Park, established on 21 December 1962.

In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged.

It is the site of the Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, lies just north of Jotunheimen National Park and lies just west of Rondane National Park, so tourism and outdoor sports such as skiing are also important.

The Vågå municipality lies in a mountainous region just to the north of Norway's Jotunheimen National Park, west of Rondane National Park, and south of the Dovrefjell mountains.

Smiubelgen in Rondane National Park.

* Rondane National Park, which lies partially in Nord-Fron, was the first Norwegian National Park, established on 21 December 1962.

In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged.

Large parts of the very first national park in Norway, Rondane National Park is situated in the municipality of Sel and has its main entrances from the mountain villages of Høvringen and Mysuseter.

Smiubelgen in Rondane National Park

In 2003, Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged adjacent to the park.

Rondane National Park () is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962.

After nearly a decade of planning, Rondane was established as the first Norwegian National Park on 21 December 1962.

Norman Heitkøtter was president of the commission, and made it possible by Royal resolution to establish Rondane National Park.

A new national park, Dovre National Park, between Rondane and Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park was also opened.

It is located between Rondane, which lies to its southeast, and Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella on its northwest.

Kvam is located at the northern end of the Peer Gynt Road, which passes through high roads with excellent views of the Jotunheimen, Dovrefjell, and Rondane mountain.

Rondane contains a few small canyons which were created by the rapid ice melting, most prominently Jutulhogget and Vesle-Ula.

Probably the best-known work is Peer Gynt ( 1867 ), a play by Henrik Ibsen, which is partly set in Rondane:

North-east lies the massif Rondane, which areas became the first national park in Norway in 1962, and has several mountains over 2, 000 metres.

Rondane lies just to the east of Gudbrandsdal and two other mountain areas, Dovre and Jotunheimen are nearby.

The park lies between the two larger and older parks Rondane to the southeast and Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella to the north.

Soon after, in 1955, community meetings were held in the municipalities close to Rondane, and a commission was founded.

Although Rondane was the first national park in Norway, many others followed.

Its opening was part of the larger expansion of Rondane, when Rondane National Park was enlarged and smaller areas of nature protection were opened or enlarged.

The landscapes of Rondane have inspired many Norwegian writers.

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, writer and gatherer of Norwegian folk tales in the mid-19th century, collected many stories connected with Rondane, including Peer Gynt, the story that inspired Ibsen.

* Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management map of Rondane

* Norway: trails are maintained by organizations like Skiforeningen in the Oslomarka area and Norwegian Mountain Touring Association in mountain areas like Hardangervidda, Rondane and Jotunheimen.

Together with the reindeer in Rondane National Park the last remaining population of wild Fennoscandian reindeer of Beringia origin ( other wild Norwegian reindeer are of European origin and have interbred with domesticated reindeer to a various extent ), wolverine, and various large birds as golden eagle and gyrfalcon can be seen, and also the recently ( 1930s ) imported ( and potentially dangerous ) musk oxen.

The mountain chain swings eastwards south of Trondheim, with ranges such as Dovrefjell and Rondane, and reaches to the border with Sweden, where they are mostly gently sloping plateaus.

The district stretches from the mountains of Rondane and in the east to Jotunheimen in the west.

That area comprises lowland parishes 200 m above sea-level and mountain parishes 800 m above sea-level, fertile soil in the main valley and barren summits in Rondane and Dovrefjell.

Generally, Rondane does not receive enough precipitation to generate persistent glaciers, but glacier-like heaps of snow can be found in the flat back valleys.

The peaks of Rondane, seen from the south.

Large climate changes allowed reindeer to spread widely across Scandinavia, only to be forced back to a much smaller area — including the Rondane mountain area — only some hundreds of years later.

Smiubelgen, the western part of Rondane.

Prairie National Park

The National Park Service now proposes to preserve an area in Pottawatomie County, northeast Kansas, as a `` Prairie National Park ''.

North to Acadia National Park, Maine, with views of a rockbound coast and dark, magnificent forests.

Silver Springs features glass-bottom boat rides and in Everglades National Park there are opportunities to photograph rare wildlife.

Along the 127-mile route through Great Smoky Mountains National Park you can photograph the breath-taking peaks, gorges and valleys which come into view at every turn.

While here, visit Theodore Roosevelt National Park for its spectacular scenery.

In the Utah area are Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park.

The National Park Service hopes by 1966 to have 30,000 campsites available for 100,000 campers a day -- almost twice what there are at present.

The couple will honeymoon in Sequoia National Park, Calif..

Monument to Johnston at Shiloh National Military Park.

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon's northern rim.

The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.