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25-488: Catharine Valley Trail is a state park and recreation trail located in Schuyler and Chemung counties, New York . The park is located near Watkins Glen State Park and maintained by its staff, as well as by volunteers. The park encompasses a recreation trail that follows abandoned railroad grades and canal towpaths between Watkins Glen and Horseheads . The trail is level and finished with crushed limestone , and

50-526: A land lease from the U.S. government , while Mackinac National Park was handed down to become the first of the Michigan state parks . As with national parks, facilities at state parks are often leased to concessionaires to operate. Breaks Interstate Park is operated under an interstate compact by Virginia state parks , although it is also one of the Kentucky state parks , straddling both sides of

75-589: A few exceptions such as Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California, and Wood-Tikchik State Park in Alaska, the largest state park in the United States . In addition to preserving natural landscapes and providing recreational opportunities, many state parks also serve as important educational resources . They often offer guided tours, interpretive programs, and exhibits that help visitors learn about

100-622: A particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology , nationality , ethnicity , social class , and/or gender . The term was coined by Richard Hoggart in 1964 when he founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies . It has since become strongly associated with Stuart Hall , who succeeded Hoggart as Director. The BBC has produced and broadcast a number of educational television programmes on different aspects of human cultural history: in 1969 Civilisation , in 1973 The Ascent of Man , in 1985 The Triumph of

125-699: A restaurant) for lodging at some parks. These typically use "Resort" in the name, such as "_____ Resort State Park" in West Virginia state parks and "_____ State Resort Park" in neighboring Kentucky state parks , which has 17 such resort parks, the most of any state. Other states use the Resort name inconsistently (like DeGray Lake Resort State Park , the only one out of three resorts in Arkansas state parks ), or have only one such park ( South Carolina state parks ' Hickory Knob State Resort Park ), or do not use

150-462: Is often characterized as replacing the allegedly dominant, allegedly Marxist , "social interpretation" which locates the causes of the Revolution in class dynamics. The revisionist approach has tended to put more emphasis on " political culture ". Reading ideas of political culture through Habermas' conception of the public sphere, historians of the Revolution in the past few decades have looked at

175-406: Is wheelchair-accessible. The trail is open year-round, and allows for walking, biking, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing. As of 2016, six miles (9.7 km) of the trail are open to the public, with plans for the trail to grow to 12 miles (19 km) in length. Catharine Valley is named for Catherine Montour , a prominent Seneca leader who died in the late eighteenth century. Portions of

200-660: The Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales . The equivalent term used in Canada, Argentina, South Africa, and Belgium, is provincial park . Similar systems of local government maintained parks exist in other countries, but the terminology varies. State parks are thus similar to national parks , but under state rather than federal administration. Similarly, local government entities below state level may maintain parks, e.g., regional parks or county parks . In general, state parks are smaller than national parks, with

225-630: The Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration . Cultural history Many current cultural historians claim it to be a new approach, but cultural history was already referred to by nineteenth-century historians, notably the Swiss scholar of Renaissance history Jacob Burckhardt . Cultural history overlaps in its approaches with the French movements of histoire des mentalités (Philippe Poirrier, 2004) and

250-746: The Internet (culture of capitalism ). Its modern approaches come from art history , Annales , Marxist school, microhistory and new cultural history. Common theoretical touchstones for recent cultural history have included: Jürgen Habermas 's formulation of the public sphere in The Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere ; Clifford Geertz 's notion of ' thick description ' (expounded in The Interpretation of Cultures ); and

275-663: The 'revisionist' approach retains the idea of the French Revolution as a watershed in the history of (so-called) modernity and that the problematic notion of modernity has itself attracted scant attention. Cultural studies is an academic discipline popular among a diverse group of scholars. It combines political economy , geography , sociology , social theory , literary theory , film/video studies , cultural anthropology , philosophy , and art history / criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how

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300-738: The country's state parks. The NASPD further counts over 43,000 miles (69,000 km) of trail, 217,367 campsites, and 8,277 cabins and lodges across U.S. state parks. The largest state park system in the United States is Alaska State Parks , with over 100 sites encompassing 3.3 million acres. Many states include designations beyond "state park" in their state parks systems. Other designations might be state recreation areas , state beaches, and state nature reserves . Some state park systems include long-distance trails and historic sites . To encourage tourism in rural areas, several states have simple lodges, inns, hotels, or motels (usually with

325-547: The creation of the park since the 1970s. The first mile of the trail was opened in 2000. This article about a location in Chemung County, New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in Schuyler County, New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . State park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at

350-478: The designation at all (such as the lodges of Georgia state parks ). The term "lodge" may also refer to a hiking lodge , essentially a large cabin for hikers rather than a large facility with private rooms and a restaurant. Other lodging may include yurts and tipis . Not all parks owned by a state are necessarily part of its state-park system, such as Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta. Some Texas state parks are

375-543: The idea of memory as a cultural-historical category, as discussed in Paul Connerton 's How Societies Remember . The area where new-style cultural history is often pointed to as being almost a paradigm is the " revisionist " history of the French Revolution , dated somewhere since François Furet 's massively influential 1978 essay Interpreting the French Revolution . The "revisionist interpretation"

400-493: The local flora , fauna , geology , and cultural history of the area. These programs are designed not only to enhance the visitor experience but also to promote conservation awareness and encourage responsible enjoyment of natural resources. There are 6,792 state park units in the United States, according to the National Association of State Park Directors (NASPD). There are some 813 million annual visits to

425-536: The paradigmatic nature of the new history of the French Revolution. Colin Jones, for example, is no stranger to cultural history, Habermas , or Marxism, and has persistently argued that the Marxist interpretation is not dead, but can be revivified; after all, Habermas' logic was heavily indebted to a Marxist understanding. Meanwhile, Rebecca Spang has also recently argued that for all its emphasis on difference and newness,

450-569: The park's trail are built upon towpaths originally constructed for the Chemung Canal , which was completed in 1830 and closed in 1878. Much of the trail's remainder follows the defunct Chemung Railroad , which was built parallel to the canal in 1850. The land that became the park was donated to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1997 by Ed Hoffman, a local resident who had worked toward

475-441: The role and position of cultural themes such as gender , ritual , and ideology in the context of pre-revolutionary French political culture. Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are Roger Chartier , Robert Darnton , Patrice Higonnet , Lynn Hunt , Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf, and Sarah Maza . Of course, these scholars all pursue fairly diverse interests, and perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on

500-506: The so-called new history, and in the U.S. it is closely associated with the field of American studies . As originally conceived and practiced in the 19th century by Burckhardt, in relation to the Italian Renaissance , cultural history was oriented to the study of a particular historical period in its entirety, with regard not only to its painting, sculpture, and architecture, but to the economic basis underpinning society, and to

525-1012: The social institutions of its daily life. Echoes of Burkhardt's approach in the 20th century can be seen in Johan Huizinga 's The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919). Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as: carnival , festival , and public rituals ; performance traditions of tale , epic , and other verbal forms; cultural evolutions in human relations (ideas, sciences, arts, techniques); and cultural expressions of social movements such as nationalism . Cultural history also examines main historical concepts as power , ideology , class , culture , cultural identity , attitude , race , perception and new historical methods as narration of body. Many studies consider adaptations of traditional culture to mass media (television, radio, newspapers, magazines, posters, etc.), from print to film and, now, to

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550-474: The state line. Other multi-state parks are legally two separate parks with the same name and more informal cooperation between them. The title of oldest state park in the United States is claimed by Niagara Falls State Park in New York , established in 1885. Several public parks previously or currently maintained at the state level pre-date it. Indian Springs State Park has been operated continuously by

575-454: The state of Georgia as a public park since 1825, although it did not gain the title "State Park" until 1931. In 1864 Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove were ceded by the federal government to California until Yosemite National Park was proclaimed in 1890. In 1878 Wisconsin set aside a vast swath of its northern forests as "The State Park" but, needing money, sold most of it to lumber companies within 20 years. Mackinac National Park

600-506: The sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or recreational potential. There are state parks under the administration of the government of each U.S. state , some of the Mexican states , and in Brazil . The term is also used in

625-473: Was established in 1875 as the second U.S. national park before being converted to a state park in 1895. The first state park with the designation of "state park" was Itasca State Park in Minnesota , established in 1891. Many state park systems date to the 1930s, when around 800 state parks (and several national ones) across the country were developed with assistance from federal job-creation programs like

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