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



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National Parks


Acadia National Park


Arches National Park (and the Delicate Arch Hike)

Badlands National Park

Big Bend National Park

Biscayne National Park

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

Canyonlands National Park (and the Shafer Trail back country drive)

Capitol Reef National Park

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Channel Islands National Park

Congaree National Park

Crater Lake National Park

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park

Denali National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park

Everglades National Park

Gates of the Arctic National Park

Gateway Arch National Park

Glacier National Park

Glacier Bay National Park

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Great Basin National Park

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Haleakala National Park

Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

Hot Springs National Park

Indiana Dunes National Park

Isle Royale National Park

Joshua Tree National Park

Katmai National Park

Kenai Fjords National Park

Kings Canyon National Park

Kobuk Valley National Park

Lake Clark National Park

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mesa Verde National Park

Mount Rainier National Park

National Park of American Samoa

New River Gorge National Park

North Cascades National Park

Olympic National Park

Petrified Forest National Park

Pinnacles National Park

Redwoods National and State Parks

Rocky Mountain National Park

Saguaro National Park

Sequoia National Park

Shenandoah National Park

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Virgin Islands National Park

Voyageurs National Park

White Sands National Park

Wind Cave National Park

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Yosemite National Park

Zion National Park (and Angel’s Landing Hike)


National Monuments, Tribal Parks, Etc


Utah’s Highway 12 - The Most Scenic Highway in America

Alaska - Dalton Highway - Ice Road Truckers

Alaska - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Kaktovik - Polar Bears

Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Vermillion Cliffs National Monument - The Wave


Americana - Some Interesting and Unusual Stuff
 
Photo Gallery of National Parks Signs



List of All U.S. National Parks - Wikipedia


National Parks Visitation Statistics - A list of the number of visitors to each park


Date When Each Park became a National Park


Our Mission Statement


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.


Whether you are a first time visitor to a park, or returning to experience what you missed on your first trip, the information contained here will make your trip better!


This site is mobile-friendly and can be viewed on a smart phone, however, due to the amount of information disseminated here it is best viewed on a tablet or desktop computer.


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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