Recreational Demonstration Area
ONE OF 46 PUBLIC PARKS THAT THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HAD BUILT IN THE 1930S–1940S, IN 24 U.S. STATES, CHIEFLY NEAR URBAN AREAS
Recreation Demonstration Area; Recreational demonstration area; Recreational Demonstration Areas
The Recreational Demonstration Area program (also known as the Recreation Demonstration Area program) was a National Park Service program during the 1930s and early 1940s that built forty-six public parks in twenty-four states on , chiefly near urban areas in the United States. The NPS used labor from a variety of Great Depression federal relief programs, chiefly the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, to build recreational demonstration areas.