Recreational Use of Land in the United States EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES OF RECREATION AREAS 1. EDUCATIONAL RECREATION
Enjoyment of a thing is enhanced through understanding. The
program of presenting and analyzing the salient features of
parks and monuments has been motivated by the desire to increase
the visitor's enjoyment through making the things about him more
intelligible. The technic of presentation is unique in many
characteristics, and gives promise of untrammeled future
development. Because it is, or can be made, adaptable to a great
variety of recreational areas, elements of the technic are
presented. To provide each visitor to a national park with an
opportunity to interpret and appreciate its superlative features
has become the goal of all those interested in the highest use
of national parks, and has led to the establishment of an
educational program to attain this end. In this program there is
little which pertains to classrooms, textbooks, or other formal
educational methods. The average visit