Detroit Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
The Allegheny Portage Railroad, first constucted over the Allegheny Mtns., was an inclined plane railroad which operated between 1834-1854. It was considered a technological wonder and played a critical role in opening the interior of the US to trade and settlement.

Antietam National Battlefield
This site marks the end of Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Antietam National Cemetery
The Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, was the tragic culmination of Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. The peaceful village of Sharpsburg turned into a huge hospital and burial ground extending for miles in all directions. These graves include veterans and their wives of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII and Korea. The cemetery closed in 1953.

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
The park encompasses approximately 3,500 acres across 3 counties and includes the key partner sites of Belle Grove Plantation, Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation lands and Visitor Center, Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation lands, and a developing Shenandoah County Park.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The C and O Canal follows the route of the Potomac River for 184.5 miles from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, MD. The canal operated from 1828-1924 as a transportation route. Hundreds of original structures, including locks, lockhouses, and aqueducts, serve as reminders of the canal's role as a transportation system during the Canal Era.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park protects 33,000 acres along the banks of the Cuyahoga River. The winding Cuyahogathe "crooked river," as named by American Indiansgives way to rolling floodplain, steep valley walls and ravines, and lush upland forests.

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Aviation Heritage commemorates three exceptional men - Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar - and their work in the Miami Valley. Through the invention of powered flight, Wilbur and Orville made significant contributions to human history. Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American, achieved national and international acclaim in a literary world that was almost exclusively reserved for whites.

Father Marquette National Memorial
Father Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary, established Michigan's earliest European settlements at Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace. Father Marquette helped Louis Jolliet map the Mississippi River.

First Ladies National Historic Site

Flight 93 National Memorial

Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Colonial troops commanded by 22 year old Colonel George Washington were defeated in this small stockade at the "Great Meadow". This opening battle of the French and Indian War began a seven year struggle between Great Britain and France for control of North America. Great Britain's success in this war helped pave the way for the American Revolution.

Friendship Hill National Historic Site
Friendship Hill National Historic Site preserves the country estate of Albert Gallatin, a Swiss emigrant who served his adopted nation during the early years of the republic. Gallatin is best remembered for his thirteen year tenure as Secretary of the Treasury during the Jefferson and Madison administrations in which he reduced the national debt, purchased the Louisiana Territory and funded the Lewis & Clark exploration.

Gauley River National Recreation Area
The 25 miles of free-flowing Gauley River pass through scenic gorges and valleys containing a wide variety of natural and cultural features.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
The heroic march of Clark's men from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi in mid-winter and the subsequent victory over the British remains one of the great feats of the American Revolution.

Gettysburg National Cemetery
It was here during the dedication ceremony on November 19, 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln spoke of "these honored dead..." and renewed the Union cause to reunite the war-torn nation with his most famous speech, the "Gettysburg Address". Today, the Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place for American veterans from all of this country's major wars and conflicts.

Green Springs
Green Springs is a natural basin caused by erosion of a volcanic intrusion resulting in particularly fertile soil.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry has been the backdrop for remarkable and unparalleled events such as Native Americans, industry and transportation, African-Americans, John Brown, and the Civil War,.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
The park contains nationally significant archeological resources including large earthwork and mound complexes that provide an insight into the social, ceremonial, political, and economic life of the Hopewell people.

Ice Age National Scenic Trail
The Ice Age National Scenic Trail travels through the edges of the glacier that passed into Wisconsin.

Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor
The Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848, connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed along a longstanding Indian portage route. It rapidly transformed Chicago from a small settlement to a critical transportation hub between the East and the developing Midwest.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles along southern Lake Michigan, bordered by Michigan City, Indiana on the east, and Gary on the west. Miles of beaches, sand dunes, bog, wetlands, woodland forests, an 1830's French Canadian homestead, and a working 1900 era farm combine to make the national lakeshore a unique setting for studying humans and their impact on the environment.

James A Garfield National Historic Site
James A. Garfield National Historic Site preserves the property associated with the 20th President of the United States. The home, named Lawnfield, was the site of the first successful front porch campaign in 1880.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial
The Johnstown Flood has everything to interest the modern mind: a wealthy resort, an intense storm, an unfortunate failure of a dam, the destruction of a working class city, and an inspiring relief effort. Over 2,209 people died on the day the dam went, and thousands more were injured, in one of the worst disasters in our Nation's history.

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the site of the farm where Abraham Lincoln spent 14 formative years of his life, from the ages of 7 to 21.

Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park was established in 1940 to preserve the scene of two major Civil War battles.

Perrys Victory and International Peace Memorial
In 1817 the United States signed the Rush-Bagot Agreement with Great Britain, a document that has resulted in peaceful relations between the United States and Canada since the War of 1812. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was built not only to commemorate the American naval triumph, but also "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament."

Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park lies astride a beautiful section of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form the eastern rampart of the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The park was established primarily for its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena. The Lakeshore also contains many cultural features including a 1871 lighthouse, three former Life-Saving Service/Coast Guard Stations and an extensive rural historic farm district.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS preserves the former Ansley Wilcox home, the scene of the inauguration on September 14th, 1901.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site commemorates the only man to serve as President and Chief Justice of the United States.