Which National Parks Do You Want to Get $2 Million?

This month, you have a chance to help choose which national parks, monuments, and more will win funding for preservation.

Twenty national park sites have the chance to win part of two million dollars in corporate funding. Those with the most votes will receive up to $250,000 for a preservation or restoration project—and it’s up to the public to choose which sites those will be. (Vote here.)

The 2016 Partners in Preservation contest gives voters the chance to support sites across the mainland United States, as well as ones in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

National Geographic has partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express to also award one voter a free trip for two to Yellowstone National Park.

Each national park, recreation area, monument, memorial, or historic site participating in the contest has designated

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