National Parks

National Parks are located all over the U.S. with over 50 National Parks to explore! From the spectacular geysers of Yellowstone National Park to the largest concentration of arches at Arches National Park, the United States has an abundance of beautiful National Parks for your enjoyment.

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National Parks - The Idea

The idea of a "national park" must have jarred strangely the nineteenth century intellects upon which the words of a Montana lawyer fell as he spoke from the shadows of a campfire in the wilderness of the Yellowstone one autumn night 70 years ago. For Cornelius Hedges addressed a generation dedicated to the winning of the West. He spoke at a time when stout hearted pioneers had their faces determinedly set toward the distant Pacific as they steadily pushed the frontier of civilization and industrialization across prairie and mountain range to claim the land for a Nation between the coasts.

His plan was presented to men cast of that die-men whose courage and enterprise characterized the era in which they lived. But Cornelius Hedges had looked deeply into American character and was not disappointed. He counted upon the altruism which marked that character, and planted in it the ideal which instantly took root and has since flowered as one of America's greatest treasures: the national park system. Thus was a new social concept born to a Nation itself reborn.

From Bryce Canyon National Park with its' abundance of hoodoos and canyons, to Everglades National Park offering everything from bird watching to boating, the US National Parks has more than enough to keep any outdoor enthusiast exploring for a lifetime.

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Yellowstone National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Yosemite National Park

Grand Canyon National Park

Death Valley National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park

Glacier National Park

Arches National Park

Zion National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

National Parks

Acadia National Park, Arches National Park, Badlands National Park, Big Bend National Park, Biscayne National Park, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, 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 and Preserve, Dry Tortugas National Park, Everglades National Park, Gates Of The Arctic National Park and Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Great Basin National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Haleakala National Park, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hot Springs National Park, Isle Royale National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Roosevelt Campobello International Park, Saguaro National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, Shenandoah National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Voyageurs National Park, Wind Cave National Park, Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, Zion National Park

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