Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming, with small portions extending into Mo…
Field guides for the U.S. National Park System
Drift through every park.
One trail, one campfire, one tip at a time.
Long-form, locally-grounded guides to 1663 parks, monuments, seashores, and historic sites — written for travelers who'd rather stay an extra day than rush to the next overlook.
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Hand-picked starting points — the parks travelers ask about most.
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park ( yoh-SEM-ih-tee) is a national park of the United States in California. It is bordered on the southeast by the Sierra National Forest an…
Gateway Arch National Park
Gateway Arch National Park is a national park of the United States located in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In…
Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes about …
Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 9…
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 2…
Pick a region. Plan a trip.
Six geographic clusters spanning every U.S. National Park unit. Each region has its own travel rhythm — when to visit, how long to stay, and which parks pair naturally on a single trip.
392 parks
Northeast
Atlantic seashores, the Appalachian spine, Civil-war battlefields, and the dense maple-and-hemlock forests of the original colonie…
348 parks
Southeast
Subtropical wetlands, blue-ridge balsam forests, barrier-island seashores, and the largest concentration of Civil War battlefields…
302 parks
Midwest
Great Lakes shorelines, tallgrass prairie remnants, Badlands, and the cultural heartland of the Mississippi watershed. Quiet, vast…
314 parks
Southwest
The signature parks of the American imagination — Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Arches, Big Bend. Red rock, dark skies, and the deepe…
431 parks
West
Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Olympic, the Cascades, and the Sierras. The mountain-and-volcano backbone of the Western park syst…
31 parks
Pacific & Territories
Alaska's largest wilderness parks, Hawaii's active volcanoes, and the Pacific island monuments. The most logistically demanding pa…
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White River Falls State Park
White River Falls State Park is a state park in north central Oregon. It is located 35 miles (56 km) by road south of The Dalles and 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east of …
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) is a national recreation area containing many individual parks and open space preserves, located pr…
Amsterdam Beach State Park
Amsterdam Beach State Park is a 199-acre (0.81 km2) undeveloped state park on the Atlantic Ocean in the Town of East Hampton just east of Montauk, New York. The…
Chapman State Park
Chapman State Park is a 862-acre (349 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Pleasant Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania near Clarendon, in the United States. The ma…
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is a United States national monument managed by the U.S. Forest Service, which encompasses parts of the Angeles Nati…
Millsite State Park
Millsite State Park is a state park on the south end of Millsite Reservoir at the mouth of Ferron Canyon in western Emery County, Utah, United States, just west…
Ochlockonee River State Park
Ochlockonee River State Park is a Florida State Park located in Wakulla County, Florida, south of the town of Sopchoppy in the Florida Panhandle. Located off U.…
Chuckwalla National Monument
Chuckwalla National Monument is a national monument in the Colorado Desert of Southern California that protects 624,270 acres (2,526.3 km2; 252,630 ha) of deser…
Redwood National and State Parks
The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one United States national park and three California state parks located along the coast of norther…
"The best way to take in a national park is to plan less, listen more, and be willing to stay another night."