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Your Quick Start Guide To Visiting National Parks
Whether you are a first time visitor to a park, or returning to experience what you missed on your previous trip, the information contained here will enhance your visit.
Scroll down for an alphabetical listing of America’s National Parks. Each link for a park has informational pages and photo galleries that will give you an idea of what you can expect to see and do there to help you plan your visit.
If you prefer a listing by state click here
National Parks
Arches National Park (and the Delicate Arch Hike)
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Canyonlands National Park (and the Shafer Trail back country drive)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Gates of the Arctic National Park
Great Sand Dunes National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
National Park of American Samoa
Petrified Forest National Park
Redwoods National and State Parks
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Wrangell-
Zion National Park (and Angel’s Landing Hike)
National Monuments, Tribal Parks, Etc
Utah’s Highway 12 -
Alaska -
Alaska -
Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument -
Americana -
Photo Gallery of National Parks Signs
List of All U.S. National Parks -
National Parks Visitation Statistics -
The Date When Each Park became a National Park
Our National Parks are truly America's best idea. Explore the beauty of these truly unique places that were set aside and preserved for the enjoyment of future generations.
The aim of this website is not to be an extensively researched encyclopedia of all of the National Parks, cutting and pasting background information from various other sources, and compiled by people who haven’t been to many of them.
Visiting all of the National Parks became our bucket list and in 2018 we had visited, what were then, all 60 national parks. However, since then 3 new parks were created and we have now been to all 63 National Parks. Our experience visiting national parks has provided us with a frame of reference to offer the kind of information any visitor, especially a first time visitor, will find most helpful to plan a visit.
The intent here is to provide basic useful information about the park: some background, wildlife, lodging, hiking and touring from the point of view of someone who has actually been to that place. Each park’s informational page will have a link to a photo gallery to give the reader an idea as to what to expect from a visual standpoint and help decide if this is a place that they might want to visit. If additional information is desired there will be links to websites where more information can be found.
The kind of condensed information presented here wasn’t available to us when we started our quest to see all of the National Parks. As a result we wasted precious time in some parks that could have been better spent. The aim of this website is to save others from this. However, on the plus side it gave us a reason to go back!
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