National Parks Guide

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.

National Parks - The Idea

Atlantic coast shoreline, mixed hardwood and spruce/fir forest, mountains, and lakes, as well as several offshore islands.

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.