Shenandoah National Park Quarter
The second quarter to be released in 2014 from the US Mint will be the Shenandoah National Park Quarter. This strike honors the park in Virginia and is part of the United States Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters® Program marking the twenty-second quarter released in the series over all. In eleven years, there will be a total of 56 strikes minted in the program.
Congress authorized the series as part of the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 23, 2008 as Public Law 110-456.
The Shenandoah National Park Quarter should be released in the first half of 2014, although the design should be known by late 2013. By that time, design candidates for the reverse of the coin should have been reviewed and commented on by the parties charges with this task such as the United States Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee.
The Shenandoah National Park Quarter follows the Great Smoky Mountains Quarter in 2014 and will itself be followed by three more quarters that same year – the Arches National Park Quarter, the Great Sand Dunes National Park Quarter, and the Everglades National Park Quarter.
Shenandoah National Park information
Shenandoah National Park of Virginia was established in 1935. It was not easy to establish this national park as several homes and communities had to be relocated or removed entirely to preserve this park.
Skyline Drive, hiking and other sightseeing activities help Shenandoah National Park thrive. Visitors can drive at a cozy speed of 35 mph along Skyline Drive and stop at several points to sightsee. There are over 500 miles of trails that can also be hiked, and several waterfalls for visitors to see.
Most of the visitors coming to Shenandoah National Park are coming in the fall to see the changing of the leaves in the forest. However, others come during all times of the year to stay at several of the lodges and cabins offered by the park.