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​ [|Mountain Park Website] The Catoctin National Park is located in Maryland in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. The Catoctin National Park also known as the Catoctin Mountain park is 5,809.87 acers larger. There are cabin visitors are allowed to rent out the cabins are [|Camp Misty Mount]. , [|Camp Green Top], and [|Camp Round Medow]. The park has a four-season climate and it percipitates 44 inches a year and and 35 inches of snow a year. A very popular visitors atraction is president Franklin Rosevelt's private retreat called Camp David the retraet is still used by presidents now.

Catoctin became a national park in 1936 and [|President Rosevelt] made resonable donations to help and protected it by enforcing security after a terrerist attack. A very influential person in the making of Catoctin of a national park was president Rosevelt who made a number of donations to the park. This land was chosen to become a national park because it has over 1,000 native plants and animal species living in it. An event that made the park worthy of National Park status was the evidence that archeologists found that said [|Native Americans] around the 8000 to 1,200 B.C. used to hunt on the lands. The land of Catoctin National Park is all natural except the cabins for visitors to stay in, the visitors to the park are warned about cleaning up after themselfs so the animals and the environment can stay clean and unharmed.

The [|climate] of the Catoctin Naitonal park is a mild climate with the normal four seasons. The average amount of snow fall in the park is 35 inches a year. The temperature in the park in the summer averages to about 80 degrees fehrenheit. Some of the wildlife in the park consists of cold blooded [|reptiles] like lizards and skinks which make up the largest group of living reptiles, 3,000 species world wide. Turtles are another kind of reptile in the park, one of the species of turtle living in the park is the [|box turtle], which can have a 6 inch long shell. There are also many [|mammals] living in the park such as [|white tailed deer] and [|black bear]. There are also a wide veriety of birds in the park like the [|bald eagle], blue heron and the blue jay. The deer have no natural predator in the park and hunting is prohibated so deer population has increased by many and is getting so out of hand the park has made a deer managment plan so that the number of deer can be thinned out. A popular natural land feature is Misty Mountain were there is a camp for kids and was established in 1937 and cost nearly 6,000 dollars. __**Recreational Activities**__:


 * [|Cross County Skiing][[image:http://www.thetravelpeach.com/europe-vacations/switzerland/skiing.jpg width="340" height="177"]]
 * [|Fishing][[image:http://www.toursaver.com/images/toursaver.com/Image/alaska-fishing.jpg width="184" height="174"]]
 * [|Hiking][[image:http://gotnomilk.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/hiking.gif width="255" height="245"]]
 * [|Horseback Riding][[image:http://www.northshore.com/community/directory/sport/images/horse-riding.jpg width="331" height="146"]]
 * [|Rock Climbing][[image:http://www.adventurehills.com/gifs/climbing-rock.jpg]]
 * [|Orienteering]

Works Cited:

Catoctin Mountain Park Service Web-site, U.S. National Park Service, [], 2/2010.