National Parks Quarter: 2010-2021

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Program Background

In accordance with Public Law 110-456, the United States National Parks Quarter Program is a multi-year initiative to honor 56 national parks and other national sites in each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories—the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Under this program, five new reverse designs will appear on the quarter-dollar each year beginning in 2010 and through 2021.
The coins will be issued in the order in which the featured site was first established as a national park or site.

Design

• The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program designs will be displayed on the reverse (tails) of the quarters, while the obverse (heads) will bear the familiar "restored" 1932 John Flanagan image of George Washington.
• The designs will be developed through a consultative process involving the governor or other chief executive of each host jurisdiction, the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and will be selected after review by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.
• The Secretary of the Treasury will approve all final designs.

Coin Specifications

• Standard Weight = 5.670 g
• Standard Diameter = 0.955 in (24.26 mm)
• Thickness = 1.75 mm
• Edge = Reeded
• Composition = Cupro-Nickel Clad (8.33% Nickel, Balance Cu)

U.S. Mint Release Schedule

Release Date	Jurisdiction	Site	Mintage Numbers
2010
19 April	Arkansas	Hot Springs National Park	34.0M "D"/35.6M "P"
3 June	Wyoming	Yellowstone National Park	34.8M "D"/33.6M "P"
26 July	California	Yosemite National Park	34.8M "D"/35.2M "P"
21 Sept	Arizona	Grand Canyon National Park	35.4M "D"/34.8M "P"
17 Nov	Oregon	Mt. Hood National Forest	34.4M "D"/34.4M "P"
2011
24 Jan	Pennsylvania	Gettysburg National Military Park	30.8M "D"/30.4M "P"
13 April	Montana	Glacier National Park	31.2M "D"/30.4M "P"
14 June	Washington	Olympic National Park	30.6M "D"/30.4M "P"
29 Aug	Mississippi	Vicksburg National Military Park	33.4M "D"/30.8M "P"
14 Nov	Oklahoma	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	69.4M "D"/73.8M "P"
2012
33 Jan	Puerto Rico	El Yunque National Forest	25.0M "D"/25.8M "P"/ ? "S"
2 April	New Mexico	Chaco Culture National Historical Park	22.0M "D"/22.0M "P"/ ? "S"
11 June	Maine	Acadia National Park	21.6M "D"/24.8M "P""/ ? "S"
27 Aug	Hawaii	Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park	78.6M "D"/46.2M "P""/ ? "S"
5 Nov	Alaska	Denali National Park	? "D"/ ? "P""/ ? "S"
2013
tbd	New Hampshire	White Mountain National Forest
tbd	Ohio	Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial
tbd	Nevada	Great Basin National Park
tbd	Maryland	Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
tbd	South Dakota	Mount Rushmore National Memorial
2014
tbd	Tennessee	Great Smoky Mountains National Park
tbd	Virginia	Shenandoah National Park
tbd	Utah	Arches National Park
tbd	Colorado	Great Sand Dunes National Park
tbd	Florida	Everglades National Park
2015
tbd	Nebraska	Homestead National Monument of America
tbd	Louisiana	Kisatchie National Forest
tbd	North Carolina	Blue Ridge Parkway
tbd	Delaware	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
tbd	New York	Saratoga National Historical Park
2016
tbd	Illinois	Shawnee National Forest
tbd	Kentucky	Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
tbd	West Virginia	Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
tbd	North Dakota	Theodore Roosevelt National Park
tbd	South Carolina	Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument)
2017
tbd	Iowa	Effigy Mounds National Monument
tbd	District of Columbia	Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
tbd	Missouri	Ozark National Scenic Riverways
tbd	New Jersey	Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty)
tbd	Indiana	George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
2018
tbd	Michigan	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
tbd	Wisconsin	Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
tbd	Minnesota	Voyageurs National Park
tbd	Georgia	Cumberland Island National Seashore
tbd	Rhode Island	Block Island National Wildlife Refuge
2019
tbd	Massachusetts	Lowell National Historical Park
tbd	Northern Mariana Islands	American Memorial Park
tbd	Guam	War in the Pacific National Historical Park
tbd	Texas	San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
tbd	Idaho	Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
2020
tbd	American Samoa	National Park of American Samoa
tbd	Connecticut	Weir Farm National Historic Site
tbd	U.S. Virgin Islands	Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
tbd	Vermont	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
tbd	Kansas	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
2021
tbd	Alabama	Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site