What is national Park ?

They're not speaking to us, they're speaking to people who have never visited and therefore won't know the difference. "National Park" is being used as a generic term here. All the variations would get confusing to the uninformed; they don't want them to be confused, they want them to visit.

There a lot of "National" sites that have nothing to do with the National Park service. They jut use the name national in their title, and usually have a small-type disclaimer that they have no connection to the NPS. CW doesn't have anybody that knows the difference. I would not be suprised to see them advertised as a "National" RV sales and service store.

I think they just linked parks and monuments in the group i.e. like you said anything run by the national park service.

There is some other stuff going on this year with National Parks on the Air. Hams operating withing the parks to sponsor the anniversary.

All kinds of things of national merit, including historic sites, national monuments, national memorials, historic trails, national recreation areas, and, of course, the national parks. All of these are run by the NPS, part of the Department of the Interior. The NPS has some places that are run in conjunction with tribal agencies.

This listing does not include the wilderness areas, national monuments and other protected areas run by the BLM, Department of the Interior. The largest portion, though, is simply public land, much of it leased out to ranchers and others for cheap.

And, of course, there are the national forests, run by the US Forest Service, part of the Department of Agriculture.

:)
Lynn