John Muir

John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'John Muir':

  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 1897 (via Banff and Canadian Rockies); link
  • Glacier parks Alaska – 1879 (first Alaskan expedition with S. Hall Young) (Fort Wrangell, Glenora on the Stikine River, mid-October – Glacier Bay) 1880 (July-September, to Taylor Glacier with Stickeen) 1881 (May-October, Cruised aboard the Corwin, Bering Sea, Siberia) 1890 1896 1897 (via Banff and Canadian Rockies) 1899 (Harriman Alaska Expedition) (Sitka –June 1899) (Wrangell, Glacier Bay, Prince William Sound – 1899); link
  • Grand Canyon Grand Canyon (Flagstaff), Arizona – September 29, 1896 (with Gifford Pinchot), February-March 1909 (with John Burroughs) ; link
  • Mammoth Cave "The naturalist John Muir (early September 1867)" - Wiki (Mammoth Cave National Park)
  • Stone Town of Zanzibar Zanzibar, Tanzania – January – February 1912; link
  • Wrangel Island (claimed the island for the United States in 1881)
  • Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana - 1885
  • Yosemite National Park 1868: Muir's first trip to Yosemite Valley