4min - Globally renowned for its significant Late Triassic fossils, Petrified Forest National Park attracts many researchers. Geologists study the multi-hued Chinle Formation, archeologists research over 13,000 years of history, and biologists explore one of the best remnants of native Arizona grassland.
5min - Canyonlands National Park preserves a colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River and tributaries.
4min - Guadalupe Mountains National Park is the world's premier example of a fossil reef from the Permian Era. The park is known for its extensive hiking and backpacking opportunities in one of the nation's most pristine wilderness areas.
2min - These mountains are calling for you. Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons. Discover communities of life adapted to persistent moisture in the west and recurrent fire in the east -- all sensitive to climate change.
6min - Most people know Redwood National Park as the home to the tallest trees on Earth. Yet, the park also protects vast prairies, oak woodlands, wild riverways, and nearly 40 miles of pristine coastline, all supporting a rich mosaic of wildlife diversity and cultural traditions.
5min - Voyageurs National Park lies within the heart of the North American Continent. Here you can see and touch rocks half as old as the world, experience the life of a voyageur, immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of a boreal forest, view the night skies, or ply the interconnected water routes.
4min - Arches National Park in eastern Utah is known for preserving over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to an incredible variety of unique geological resources and land formations. Mother Nature truly is an artist at heart.
5min - Capitol Reef National Park offers visitors a stunning array of incredible landscapes, where light and shadow delicately streak across the stark and bold faces of rock and stone. Located in south-central Utah, Capitol Reef is 100 miles long, but quite narrow. The park preserves 241,904 acres of land.
6min - Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The stratified coloring of the land marks centuries of slow, methodical earthworks at play.
4min - When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was a skinny, young, spectacled dude from New York. He could not have imagined how his adventure in this remote and unfamiliar place would forever alter the course of the nation.
6min - Channel Islands National Park is a United States national park that consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of the U.S. state of California, in the Pacific Ocean.
5min - Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, south of Miami. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs, offering visitors some of the most remarkable aquatic experiences, above and below the water, in the United States.
2min - Roughly the size of Switzerland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the northernmost national park in the U.S., and the second largest at 13,238 square miles. Like its brother and sister parks, Gates of the Arctic preserves a sacred part of natural, wild America.
5min - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a World Heritage Site, is comprised of 3.3 million acres of treasured natural wonders and wildlife, and is located near Juneau, Alaska. Magnificent glaciers, towering snow-capped mountains, abundant wildlife, and mile after mile of immaculate coastline.
5min - Katmai National Monument was created in 1918 to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty-square-mile, 100-to-700-foot-deep, ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano in 1912.
5min - At the edge of the Kenai Peninsula lies a land where the last Ice Age still lingers. Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords' crowning feature. Wildlife thrives in icy waters and lush forests around this vast expanse of ice where blue is depicted in a million hues.
3min - For 9,000 years, people traveled to Onion Portage in Kobuk National Park to harvest the caribou as they crossed the river. Even today, that rich tradition continues along the Kobuk River. Half a million caribou migrate through the region, their tracks crisscrossing massive, sculpted dunes.
4min - Lake Clark National Park is a land of stunning beauty where volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes, and local people rely on the land?s vital resources. Solitude is found around every bend in the river, and every shoulder of a mountain.
6min - At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park stretches out from one of the tallest peaks in North America. Yet, within this wild landscape, people have been living off the land for centuries, and still do today. The park is a rugged, yet, inviting place to experience your own adventure.
4min - In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. The Great Basin National Park has the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves.
3min - The National Park of American Samoa is an exotic national park in the American Territory of American Samoa, distributed across three separate and stunning islands: Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta'_. It is the only American national park south of the Equator.
4min - Almost 70 miles west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. The 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands.
6min - Tucson, Arizona is home to the nation's largest cacti. The giant saguaro is the universal symbol of the American west. These majestic plants, found only in a small portion of the USA, are protected by Saguaro National Park, where cacti are silhouetted by the beauty of magnificent desert sunsets.
10min - Death Valley National Park is a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The park contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains.
5min - Viewed from the road, this desert park only hints at its vitality. Closer examination reveals a fascinating variety of plants and animals that make their home in this land shaped by strong winds, unpredictable torrents of rain, and climatic extremes.
3min - Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a United States National Park located in western Colorado. The Black Canyon is so named on account of its steepness which makes it difficult for sunlight to penetrate very far down the canyon.
4min - Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a United States national park that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio.
3min - Congaree National Park in South Carolina provides a sanctuary for plants and animals, a research site for scientists, and a place for you to walk and relax in a tranquil wilderness setting amid giant hardwoods and towering pines.
5min - The tallest dunes in North America are the centerpiece in a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra. Experience this diversity through hiking, sand sledding, splashing in Medano Creek, wildlife watching, and more!
11min - Old volcanic rock formations that have been rounded by atmospheres and weather over the course of time add a commanding presence to Pinnacles National Park, given park status in 2013, and home to a variety of unique winged inhabitants, some of which are extremely rare.
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