Parks & Public Lands

Acadia National Park

Where the mountains meet the sea in Maine

Arches National Park

The world's greatest concentration of natural arches

Bears Ears

A vast cultural landscape in southeastern Utah

Bryce Canyon National Park

A natural amphitheater of red rock spires

Craters of the Moon

A vast lava landscape on the Idaho plain

Death Valley National Park

The hottest, driest, and lowest place in North America

Denali National Park

Six million acres of Alaskan wilderness around the high one

Devils Tower

America's first national monument, a butte in Wyoming

Dinosaur National Monument

A fossil wall and river canyons on the Colorado-Utah line

Everglades National Park

A vast subtropical wetland — a "river of grass"

Glacier National Park

The "Crown of the Continent" in Montana

Grand Canyon National Park

The park protecting Arizona's mile-deep gorge

Grand Staircase-Escalante

A giant geologic staircase of cliffs in southern Utah

Grand Teton National Park

The jagged Tetons above Jackson Hole

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The most visited national park in the country

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Active volcanoes and new land on the Big Island

Joshua Tree National Park

Where two deserts meet in Southern California

Mount Rainier National Park

Wildflower meadows beneath a great Cascade volcano

Mount Rushmore

The 60-foot presidential faces carved into the Black Hills

Muir Woods

Old-growth coast redwoods near San Francisco

Olympic National Park

Rainforest, mountains, and wild coast in Washington

Rocky Mountain National Park

High peaks and alpine tundra in Colorado

Sequoia National Park

Home of the largest trees on Earth

Shenandoah National Park

A long ribbon of the Blue Ridge in Virginia

Yellowstone National Park

The world's first national park, atop a supervolcano

Yosemite National Park

Granite cliffs and waterfalls in the Sierra Nevada

Zion National Park

A deep red sandstone canyon in southern Utah