U.S. National Parks
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Acadia National Park109 Cottage St, Bar Harbor, ME | (207) 288-3338
The First National Park East of the Mississippi River -
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National Park of American SamoaAmerican Samoa | 1 684-633-7082
Located some 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii, this is one of the most remote national parks in the United States. It is also one of the newest; it was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1988 and officially established in 1993 when a 50 year lease was signed. -
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Arches National ParkN Hwy 191, Moab, UT | (435) 719-2299
Administered by the National Park Service, the area was originally designated as a National Monument on April 12, 1929. It was redesignated as a National Park on November 12, 1971. -
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Badlands National Park20695 Sd Highway 240, Interior, SD | (605) 433-5361
These geologic deposits contain one of the world's richest fossil beds. Ancient mammals such as the rhino, horse, and saber-toothed cat once roamed here. -
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Big Bend National ParkMesquite St, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX | (432) 477-2251
By the 1930s, people who recognized the beauty and the splendor of the Big Bend country rallied to preserve the area. The Texas Legislature then designated the area as Big Bend State Park and in 1935, the land was acquired by the U.S. Congress for use as a national park. In June of 1944, the state of Texas deeded the land to the United States Government, and the first visitors perused the park on July 1, 1944. -
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Biscayne National Park9700 SW 328th St, Homestead, FL | (305) 230-7275
Ninety-five percent of the park is water. In addition, the shore of the bay is the location of an extensive mangrove forest. -
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park9800 Highway 347, Montrose, CO | (970) 240-9851
Deeper than it is wide in some places, this great slit in the Earth is so narrow that sunlight penetrates to the bottom only at midday. -
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Bryce Canyon National ParkHwy 63, UT | (435) 834-5322
Bryce Canyon National Park is named for just one of many canyons which form a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters on the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. -
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Canyonlands National ParkUtah | (435) 719-2313
The park is composed of five unique regions. They are relatively close together, as the crow flies, but direct travel between them is virtually impossible because of the rough nature of the landscape. -
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Capitol Reef National Park52 Scenic Dr, Torrey, UT | (435) 425-3791
The area was named for a line of white domes and cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, each of which looks somewhat like the United States Capitol building, that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef referred to any rocky barrier to travel. -
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park3225 National Parks Hwy, Carlsbad, NM | (505) 785-2232
The park contains more than 100 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave—the nation's deepest (1,567 feet) and third longest limestone cave. -
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The park consists of 249,354 acres, half of which are under the ocean, and include the islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara. -
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Spreading northeast from the meandering Congaree River, the land is the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwoods in the United States. -
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Crater Lake National ParkMazama Campground, OR | (541) 594-3000
The lake is 1,949 feet (594 m) deep at its deepest point, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America and the ninth deepest in the world -
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park15610 Vaughn Rd, Cleveland, OH | (216) 524-1497
It is the only national park in Ohio. According to the US National Park Service, the Cuyahoga Valley is the 5th most frequently visited park (3,217,935 recreational visits in 2002) in the National Park System. -
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Death Valley National ParkHighway 190, Death Valley, CA | (760) 786-3200
he average evaporation rate in the bottom of Death Valley is 150 inches a year. The average rainfall is less than 2 inches. -
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Denali National Park and PreserveDenali Park, Rte 3, McKinley Park, AK | (907) 683-2294
Mount McKinley National Park, whose name had been subject to local criticism from the onset, and Denali National Monument were incorporated and established into Denali National Park and Preserve by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, December 2, 1980. -
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Dry Tortugas National Park40001 State Road 9336 (mail), Homestead, FL | (305) 242-7700
Dry Tortugas is one of the most remote national parks in the lower 48 states. Set in the Gulf of Mexico about 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, the park protects 100 square nautical miles of sea, sand, and coral reefs around seven tiny islands known as the Dry Tortugas. -
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For the most part, travel into the spectacular park is limited to light aircraft launched from such remote bush villages as Coldfoot, Bettles, or Prospect Creek. -
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Glacier National Park295 Mather Dr, MT | (406) 888-7800
The mountains of Glacier National Park began forming 170 million years ago when ancient rocks were forced eastward up and over much younger rock strata. Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest fossilized examples of extremely early life found anywhere on Earth. -
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve3100 National Park Rd, Juneau, AK | (907) 697-2230
It was proclaimed a national monument in 1925, established as a national park and preserve in 1980, and designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. -
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Grand Canyon National ParkGrand Canyon, Village Loop Rd, Grand Canyon,, AZ | (928) 638-7888
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. -
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Grand Teton National Park101 Moose, Jackson, WY | (307) 739-3300
The legend of the Tetons, the National Park Service says, is that French-Canadian trappers named the three summits that lend the park its name because they resembled that particular part of the female anatomy. -
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Great Basin National Park100 Great Basin National Park, NV | (775) 234-7331
The park lies in an arid region and receives very little rainfall during most of the year. Most precipitation is winter snow or summer thunderstorms. All precipitation in this region evaporates, sinks underground or flows into lakes. No water reaches the ocean. -
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve11500 State Highway 150, Mosca, CO | (719) 378-6300
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, rising about 750 feet (230 m) from the floor of the San Luis Valley on the western base of the Sangre de Cristo Range, covering about 19,000 acres (77 km²). They are perhaps 12,000 years old. -
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park107 Park Headquarters Road, Gatlinburg, TN | (865) 856-2445
The park was chartered by the United States Congress in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. -
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park400 Pine Canyon Rd, Salt Flat | (915) 828-3251
The park covers 135 square miles (350 km2) and is in the same mountain range as Carlsbad Caverns National Park which is located about 25 miles (40 km) to the north in New Mexico. -
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Haleakala National ParkKula, HI | (808) 572-4400
It was originally created as part of the Hawaii National Park along with the volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Kilauea on the island of Hawaiʻi in 1916. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was made into a separate national park in 1961. The park area was designated an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980. -
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Hawaii Volcanoes National ParkHawaii Belt Rd, Volcano, HI | (808) 985-6000
The main entrance to the park is from the Hawaii Belt Road. The Chain of Craters Road, as the name implies, leads past several craters from historic eruptions to the coast. It used to continue to another entrance to the park near the town of Kalapana, but that portion is now covered by a lava flow. -
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Hot Springs National Park369 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, AR | (501) 624-2701
People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. While it was a reservation, the area developed into a well-known resort nicknamed The American Spa that attracted not only the wealthy but indigent health seekers from around the world as well. -
Isle Royale National Park800 E Lakeshore Dr, Houghton, MI | (906) 482-0984
Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles (72 km) in length and 9 miles (14 km) wide at its widest point. -
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Joshua Tree National Park74485 National Park Dr, Twentynine Palms, CA | (760) 367-5500
The rock formations of Joshua Tree National Park were formed 100 million years ago from the cooling of magma beneath the surface. Groundwater is responsible for the erosion that created the spheres from rectangular blocks. These prominent outcroppings are known as inselbergs or a monadnock. -
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Katmai National Park and PreserveP.O. Box 7, King Salmon, Bristol Bay Borough | (907) 246-3305
Katmai contains the world's largest protected brown bear population, estimated to number in excess of 2,000. Bears are especially likely to congregate at the Brooks Falls viewing platform when the salmon are spawning, and many well known photographs of brown bears have been taken there. -
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Kenai Fjords National Park500 Adams St # 103, Seward, AK | (907) 224-3175
The park covers an area of approximately 1,760 sq mi (4,600 km2) on the Kenai Peninsula in southcentral Alaska, near the town of Seward. -
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Kings Canyon had been known to white settlers since the mid-19th century, but it was not until John Muir first visited in 1873 that the canyon began receiving attention. Muir was delighted at the canyon's similarity to Yosemite Valley, as it reinforced his theory regarding the origin of both valleys, which, though competing with Josiah Whitney's then-accepted theory that the spectacular mountain valleys were formed by earthquake action, Muir's theory later proved correct: that both valleys were carved by massive glaciers during the last Ice Age. -
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No roads lead to the park. It is reachable by foot, dogsled, snowmobile, and chartered air taxis from Nome and Kotzebue year-round. The park is one of the least visited in the National Park System, ranking as the least visited national park in the country in 2006 with just 3,005 visitors. This dropped to just 847 visitors in 2007. -
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Lake Clark National Park and Preserve1 Park Pl, Port Alsworth, AK | (907) 644-3626
Originally a national monument, Lake Clark's status was changed to National Park and Preserve in 1980, and about two-thirds was designated Wilderness. -
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Lassen Volcanic National ParkEight miles northeast of Mineral - PO Box 100, Mineral | (530) 595-4464
The Lassen area was first protected by being designated as the Lassen Peak Forest Preserve. Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone were later declared as U.S. National Monuments in May 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt. -
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Mammoth Cave National Park1 Mammoth Cave Parkway, Mammoth Cave, KY | (270) 758-2180
Private citizens formed the Mammoth Cave National Park Association in 1926. The Park was authorized May 25, 1926. -
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Mesa Verde National ParkCortez, CO | (970) 529-4465
As concern grew over the archaeological well being of Mesa Verde's ruins, and those in other nearby sites, the area was established as a national park on June 29, 1906. As with all historical areas administered by the National Park Service, the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. It was designated a World Heritage Site on September 6, 1978. -
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Mount Rainier National Park55210 238th Ave E, Ashford, WA | (360) 569-2211
It was one of the US's earliest National Parks, having been established on March 2, 1899 as the fifth national park in the United States. -
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North Cascades National Park7280 Ranger Station Rd, Marblemount, WA | (360) 873-4590
Only 90 minutes from Seattle you can see 300 glaciers in this park. -
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Olympic National Park600 E Park Ave, Port Angeles, WA | (360) 374-5450
Olympic National Park in Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula was established on June 29,1938 as a national park by then president Franklin Roosevelt. The area is described by the National Park Service as being like three parks in one as it contains the Pacific Coastline, a mountainous zone comprised of the Olympic Mountains and a zone of different types of forests. -
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Petrified Forest National ParkPinta Rd, Puerco, AZ 86502, USA | (928) 524-6228
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. -
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Redwood National Park1440 US Highway 199, Crescent City, California | (707) 464-9150
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2) of the California coast. 96% of all old-growth redwoods have been logged, and almost half (45%) of the redwoods remaining are found in Redwood National and State Parks. -
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Rocky Mountain National Park1000 U.S. 36, Estes Park, CO | (970) 586-1206
When Congress passed the Rocky Mountain National Park Act in 1915, the legislators focused on Rocky's scenic and natural wonders. Still, what became the park held many cultural treasures including ancient trails, game drives, cattle ranches, and lodges. Early Superintendents tried to develop roads, backcountry cabins, and trails to blend with the surroundings. Rangers manipulated the landscape to look more natural; they suppressed fires, planted seedlings, and controlled predators. The National Park Service purchased private lands and removed buildings, roads, post offices, driveways, irrigation ditches, and fences. -
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Saguaro National Park takes its name from the saguaro cactus, the giant, many-armed symbol of southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Standing as high as 50 feet and weighing as much as ten tons, these silent, slow-growing sentinels are a vital link in the ecology of one of the richest and most varied deserts in the world. -
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Sequoia National Park220 N Santa Fe St, Visalia, CA | (559) 739-1668
The park is famous for its Giant Sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth. -
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Shenandoah National Park3655 US Hwy 211 East, Luray, VA | (540) 999-3500
On December 27, 1935 the park was officially established and the Civilian Conservation Corps got to work on trails and roads. -
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park315 2nd Avenue, Medora, ND | (701) 623-4466
Located in the North Dakota badlands, 135 miles west of Bismarck, Theodore Roosevelt National Park pays tribute to this great U.S. president and conservationist. The park stands on the land that Roosevelt owned during the 1880s, when he headed west and purchased a cattle ranch to help him grieve the losses of his wife and his mother. -
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It became the 29th U.S. national park in 1956, when Laurence Rockefeller visited the area and thought the land was incredibly beautiful. -
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Voyageurs National Park3131 Hwy 53, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN | (218) 374-3221
It was established in 1975. The park's name commemorates the voyageurs, French-Canadian fur traders who were the first European settlers to frequently travel through the area -
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Wind Cave National Park26611 US Highway 385, Hot Springs, SD | (605) 745-4600
Wind Cave is one of the largest caverns in the world, a labyrinth of passages carved out of limestone beds that have existed for 60 million years. Unlike many limestone caverns, including Mammoth Cave, that formed at relatively shallow depths -- sometimes less than 100 feet -- Wind Cave twists and turns its way through rock hundreds of feet below the surface. In one place the cavern is more than 600 feet below the surface. -
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Wrangell - St. Elias National Park and PreserveWrangell-St. Elias National Park, Wrangell‐St. Elias National Park Visitor Center Mile 106.8 Richardson Hwy 99573, Copper Center, Alaska | (907) 822-5234
At just over 8.9 million acres the largest U.S. national park, it equals six Yellowstones. -
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Yellowstone National Park436 W Entrance Rd, West Yellowstone, MT | (307) 344-7381
Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. Located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. -
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On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signs the bill creating the Yosemite Grant, given to the state of California to form Yosemite State Park. -
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Zion Canyon National ParkSR 9, Zion National Park | (435) 772-3256
Designated in 1919, Zion is Utah's oldest national park. The park is known for its incredible canyons, including The Narrows, which attract canyoneers from around the world. -
- total distance: 90,338 miles (145.385 km)
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