#1United States · Nature · North America
Grand Teton National Park
A mountain wall rising straight out of the sage.
9.5/10 · 4 ratings
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#1
#2United States · Nature · North America
Mount Rainier National Park
A glacier-covered volcano that owns the Seattle skyline.
9.5/10 · 4 ratings
#3United States · Nature · North America
Yellowstone National Park
The first national park: geysers, wolves, and a volcanic caldera.
9.3/10 · 4 ratings
#4United States · Nature · North America
Grand Canyon National Park
A mile-deep canyon that still stops people who thought they were prepared.
9.3/10 · 4 ratings
#5United States · Nature · North America
Olympic National Park
Rainforest, alpine, and wild Pacific beach in one park.
9.3/10 · 4 ratings
#6United States · Nature · North America
Acadia National Park
Granite coast, carriage roads, and the first sunrise in the lower 48.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#7United States · Nature · North America
Bryce Canyon National Park
An amphitheater of hoodoos in pink and orange stone.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#8United States · Nature · North America
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
A living canal valley between Cleveland and Akron.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#9United States · Nature · Oceania
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, still writing the island.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#10United States · Nature · North America
Gateway Arch National Park
The smallest national park, and the tallest monument in the U.S.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#11United States · Nature · North America
Capitol Reef National Park
A hundred-mile wrinkle in the earth, plus pie.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#12United States · Nature · Oceania
Haleakalā National Park
A volcanic summit above the clouds on Maui.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#13United States · Nature · North America
Saguaro National Park
A forest of giant cactus on both sides of Tucson.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#14United States · Nature · North America
Canyonlands National Park
A maze of canyons split by the Colorado and Green Rivers.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#15United States · Nature · North America
Redwood National and State Parks
Coastal giants, jointly managed with California state parks.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#16United States · Nature · North America
Everglades National Park
A river of grass, and the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#17United States · Nature · North America
Crater Lake National Park
The deepest lake in the United States, impossibly blue.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#18United States · Nature · North America
Denali National Park
North America's highest peak, usually hiding in the clouds.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#19United States · Nature · North America
Great Sand Dunes National Park
The tallest dunes in North America, backed by the Sangre de Cristos.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#20United States · Nature · North America
Kenai Fjords National Park
Exit Glacier on land, tidewater ice from a boat out of Seward.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#21United States · Nature · North America
Virgin Islands National Park
Two-thirds of St. John, under water as much as on it.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#22United States · Nature · North America
Petrified Forest National Park
Triassic trees turned to stone, and the Painted Desert.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#23United States · Nature · North America
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Badlands, bison, and the landscape that shaped a president.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
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United States · Nature · North America
Congaree National Park
Old-growth floodplain forest on a boardwalk.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#25United States · Nature · North America
Lassen Volcanic National Park
All four types of volcano, plus boiling earth.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#26United States · Nature · North America
Channel Islands National Park
Five islands, endemic foxes, and a park you reach by boat.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#27United States · Nature · North America
Dry Tortugas National Park
A brick fort on a reef, 70 miles west of Key West.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#28United States · Nature · North America
Great Basin National Park
Wheeler Peak, bristlecones, and a cave under a dark sky.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#29United States · Nature · North America
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Texas's highest peak and a fossil reef in the desert.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#30
United States · Nature · North America
Voyageurs National Park
A water park of lakes, islands, and houseboats on the Canadian border.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#31United States · Nature · North America
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park
The largest U.S. national park — bigger than several states.
9.3/10 · 3 ratings
#32United States · Nature · North America
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
A limestone cathedral underground, and a bat flight at dusk.
8.8/10 · 4 ratings
#33United States · Nature · North America
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The most-visited U.S. national park, for the fog and the forests.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#34United States · Nature · North America
Arches National Park
More than two thousand sandstone arches in red-rock desert.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#35United States · Nature · North America
Hot Springs National Park
A national park that is also a spa town.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#36United States · Nature · North America
Biscayne National Park
A mostly underwater park at the top of the Florida Keys.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#37United States · Nature · North America
Wind Cave National Park
Boxwork cave below, bison prairie above.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#38United States · Nature · North America
Isle Royale National Park
A roadless island in Lake Superior for wolves, moose, and boats.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#39
United States · Nature · North America
Kobuk Valley National Park
Arctic sand dunes and a caribou migration corridor.
8.7/10 · 3 ratings
#40United States · Nature · North America
Yosemite National Park
Granite, waterfalls, and a valley that defined the national park idea.
8.5/10 · 4 ratings
#41United States · Nature · North America
Pinnacles National Park
Volcanic spires, talus caves, and condors on a small footprint.
8.5/10 · 4 ratings
#42United States · Nature · North America
Death Valley National Park
North America's hottest, driest, lowest place — and still beautiful.
8.3/10 · 4 ratings
#43United States · Nature · North America
White Sands National Park
Dunes of gypsum that look like snow and behave like sand.
8.3/10 · 4 ratings
#44United States · Nature · North America
Big Bend National Park
Chihuahuan Desert, river canyons, and a night sky that still works.
8.0/10 · 4 ratings
#45United States · Nature · North America
Zion National Park
Red walls, a river walk, and a shuttle that is part of the deal.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings
#46United States · Nature · North America
Rocky Mountain National Park
Trail Ridge Road across the tundra, elk in the valleys.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings
#47United States · Nature · North America
Glacier National Park
Going-to-the-Sun Road, turquoise lakes, and vanishing ice.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings
#48United States · Nature · North America
Shenandoah National Park
Skyline Drive, 105 miles of Blue Ridge overlooks.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings
#49United States · Nature · North America
Indiana Dunes National Park
Lake Michigan beaches in the shadow of the steel mills.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings
#50United States · Nature · North America
Badlands National Park
Striped buttes, mixed-grass prairie, and fossil beds in one glance.
8.0/10 · 3 ratings