Trivia: The only national park named after a person is named after whom?
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
John Muir
The correct answer is Theodore Roosevelt
So why is this answer correct? : There are 63 national parks in the United States, but only one is named after a person: Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The 26th President’s namesake park is located in the North Dakota badlands. When Roosevelt served as President from 1901 to 1909, he established more than 200 national parks, forests, wildlife reserves, and monuments across 230 million acres of public land, earning him the nickname of the “conservationist President.”