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National Parks
United States National Parks - 63
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kobuk Valley | Alaska (Kotzebue in Northwest Arctic Borough). Thousands of caribou migrate through crisscrossing sculpted dunes. Kobuk River is ancient/current corridor. 9,000 years people came to Onion Portage to harvest caribou as they swam the river. |
| Gates of the Arctic ~ northernmost National Park | Alaska Contains no roads or trails. Virtually unchanged for 10,000 years |
| Denali ~ covered with glaciers & home to grizzly bears, Dall sheep, & caribou | Alaska; Home of Mt. Denali; Only one road in and out of the park |
| Wrangell-St. Elias | Alaska - largest at over 8 million acres |
| Lake Clark | Alaska;The park includes many streams and lakes vital to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery; - Ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina people; - headwaters of largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world |
| Kenai Fjords | Alaska; The park contains the Harding Icefield, one of the largest ice fields in the United States. |
| Glacier Bay | Alaska Calvin Coolidge first proclaimed the area as a national park under Antiquities Act but Jimmy Carter expanded it to the park we know today |
| American Samoa | American Samoa - southernmost national park with coral reefs, rainforests, volcanic mountains & white beaches |
| Saguaro | Arizona; ~ home to many cacti in the Sonoran Desert |
| Petrified Forest ~ 225 million year old petrified wood, surrounded by the Painted Desert, dinosaur fossils | Arizona; known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Period |
| Grand Canyon ~ carved by the Colorado River | Arizona; Averages 10 miles across and a mile deep along 277 mile length |
| Hot Springs ~ oldest & smallest national park | Arkansas |
| Redwood ~ home to the tallest trees on Earth | California; Traditional home of the Prey-go-neesh (California Condor); Yurok word for California condor is Prey-go-Neesh. |
| Yosemite National Park | California; A California national park, whose 1890 establishment was due to John Muir and his naturalist efforts |
| Pinnacles ~ home to the endangered California condor | California; Formed 23 million years ago after multiple volcanoes erupted, flowed, and slid to form the park. |
| Sequoia | California; the park contains the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney; famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, one of the largest trees on Earth. |
| Channel Islands | California; Santa Cruz Island is the largest island in the park |
| Joshua Tree National Park | California; ~ covers large areas of Colorado & Mojave Deserts |
| Kings Canyon | California; It incorporated General Grant National Park in 1890 to protect the General Grant Grove of giant sequoias. |
| Death Valley | California, Nevada. ~ hottest, lowest, driest place in the US |
| Rocky Mountain National Park | Colorado; -Longs Peak, a classic Colorado fourteener, and the scenic Bear Lake are popular destinations, as well as the famous Trail Ridge Road, which reaches an elevation of more than 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Mt. Bierstadt |
| Great Sand Dunes | Colorado; contains the tallest sand dunes in North America |
| Mesa Verde | Colorado; ~ 4000 archaeological sites of the Ancestral Puebloan people, cliff dwellings, balcony house |
| Biscayne | Florida ~ north end of the Florida Keys, home to manatees |
| Everglades | Florida; ~ largest tropical wilderness, mangrooves & alligators |
| Dry Tortugas ~ site of Fort Jefferson from Civil War era | Florida ~ western most end of Florida Keys, accessible by plane or boat only |
| Haleakala National Park | Hawaii; ~ Volcano on Maui; - Home to Hawaii's first observatory - Haleakala means "House of the Sun"; - Taller than Mt. Everest |
| Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | Hawaii; -~ Kilauea & Mauna Loa; - On big island of Hawaii -Crater rim drive |
| Mammoth Cave | Kentucky; ~ world's longest cave system |
| Acadia | Maine ~ Mount Desert Island |
| Isle Royale | Michigan; ~ largest island in Lake Superior |
| Voyageurs | Minnesota |
| Glacier National Park | Montana; - The U.S. half of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, this park hosts 26 glaciers and 130 named lakes beneath a stunning canopy of Rocky Mountain peaks. -Infamous "Going to the Sun Road" - a national historic landmark. |
| Great Basin | Nevada; - Home to 13,063 ft. Wheeler Peak; - caves and mountains |
| Carlsbad Caverns | New Mexico ~ 117 caves, one is over 120 miles long, home to over 400,000 bats |
| Theodore Roosevelt | North Dakota; The park is known for the South Unit's colorful Painted Canyon and the Maltese Cross Cabin, where President Roosevelt once lived |
| Crater Lake National Park | Oregon; ~ lies in the caldera of an ancient volcano Mt.Mazama, deepest lake in the US |
| Wind Cave | South Dakota; - the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world. The cave is notable for its displays of the calcite formation known as boxwork; densest cave system in the world |
| Badlands | South Dakota - home to bison, bighorn sheep, & black-footed ferrets; - one of world's richest fossil beds |
| Great Smoky Mountains | Tennessee, North Carolina; - America's MOST VISITED national park. ~ sub-range of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Big Bend National Park | Texas ~ along Rio Grande on US/Mexico border |
| Guadalupe Mountains | Texas; contains El Capitan and McKittrick Canyon |
| Virgin Islands | U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Zion National Park | Utah park where tributaries of the Virgin River have carved canyons in the Navajo Sandstone. - home of "The Narrows" hike through the Virgin River |
| Bryce Canyon | Utah ~ tall sandstone hoodoos, settles by Native Americans & later by Mormons |
| Arches | Utah ~ over 2000 natural sandstone arches, desert climate |
| Canyonlands | Utah ~ carved by Colorado River |
| Capitol Reef | Utah ~ sandstone domes & cliffs shaped like the US Capitol |
| Shenandoah | Virginia; encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains; highest point is Hawksbill Mountain |
| Olympic | Washington; It was designated a national park by Franklin Roosevelt in 1938. In 1981, it was designated a World Heritage Site. - Olympic Peninsula, Mount Olympus |
| Mount Rainier ~ alpine forest | Washington ~ active volcano, - alpine forest, - Rainier is most glaciated peak in U.S. |
| North Cascades | Washington; Several national wilderness areas and British Columbia parkland adjoin the National Park. - Stehekin Valley |
| Grand Teton | (Wyoming) South of Yellowstone National Park. Namesake mountain. Includes Jackson Hole valley. |
| Yellowstone | Wyoming, Montana, Idaho - FIRST national park signed into law by President Grant in 1872. - geysers, mudpots, and thermal springs lie on top of a supervolcano - Old Faithful |
| Black Canyon of the Gunnison | Colorado; The canyon's name owes itself to the fact that parts of the gorge only receive 33 minutes of sunlight a day |
| Congaree | South Carolina; The lush trees growing in this floodplain forest are some of the tallest in the Eastern U.S. |
| Cuyahoga Valley | Ohio; name comes from the Mohawk word for "on the river" or "at the river" |
| Gateway Arch | Missouri (St. Louis) - Commemorates Westward Expansion led by Jefferson |
| Indiana Dunes | Indiana, - Southern end of Lake Michigan |
| Katmai | Alaska; - notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and Alaskan brown bears |
| Lassen Volcanic | California park that has a felsic lava dome that is the southernmost Cascade volcano. Last erupted in 1917. |
| New River Gorge National Park and Preserve | West Virginia (designated 2021) - New River is among oldest rivers on continent -From almost any viewpoint in the park one will see the railroad tracks that opened this rugged and isolated land to the outside world in 1872 |
| White Sands National park | New Mexico, - Tularose Basin, - Great wave like dunes of gypsum sand- world's largest |
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