There are National Parks where you can easily understand how they came by their names, like those that are named for the mountain ranges they protect such as Rocky Mountain in Colorado, Grand Teton in Wyoming, and Olympic in Washington. Then there are those whose names are a bit of a mystery. How is there a reef in the middle of the desert? An island surrounded by water that's dry? And why so many French names? If you’re a National Park junkie, you love learning more about the areas that you love to explore in your hiking boots, so we delved into the history of some of the most unusually-named National Parks to explain how they got their designations.
