"The park contains one of the largest concentrations of natural sandstone arches in the world. The arches and numerous other extraordinary geologic features, such as spires, pinnacles, pedestals and balanced rocks, are highlighted in striking foreground and background views..." More »
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• Badlands National Park
"Located in southwestern South Dakota, Badlands National Park consists of nearly 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed-grass prairie in the United States..." More »
• Big Bend National Park
"The park covers over 801,000 acres of west Texas in the place where the Rio Grande makes a sharp turn--the Big Bend..." More »
• Bryce Canyon National Park
"Bryce Canyon National Park is named for one of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah..." More »
• Denali National Park & Preserve
"Denali National Park & Preserve features North America's highest mountain, Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet..." More »
• Devil's Tower National Monument
"The nearly vertical monolith known as Devils Tower rises 1,267 feet above the meandering Belle Fourche River..." More »
• Everglades National Park
"Everglades National Park is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the continental United States and has extensive fresh and saltwater areas, open Everglades prairies, and mangrove forests..." More »
• Grand Canyon National Park
"Located entirely in northern Arizona, the park encompasses 277 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands..." More »
• Grand Teton National Park
"Towering more than a mile above the valley known as Jackson Hole, the Grand Teton rises to 13,770 feet above sea level..." More »
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
"The park encompasses 230,000 acres and ranges from sea level to the summit of the earth's most massive volcano, Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet..." More »
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial
"Mount Rushmore is a memorial to the growth and development of the United States of America..." More »
• Olympic National Park
"Often referred to as "three parks in one," Olympic National Park encompasses three distinctly different ecosystems — rugged glacier capped mountains, over 60 miles of wild Pacific coast and magnificent stands of old growth and temperate rain forest..." More »
• Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
"Sequoia is the second oldest national park in the United States. It was established in 1890 to protect the Big Trees in Giant Forest, including the General Sherman Tree, the world's largest living thing..." More »
• Yosemite National Park
"Yosemite National Park embraces almost 1,200 square miles of scenic wild lands set aside in 1890 to preserve a portion of the central Sierra Nevada that stretches along California's eastern flank..." More »
• Zion National Park
"Protected within Zion National Park's 229 square miles (593.1 km) is a spectacular cliff-and-canyon landscape and wilderness full of the unexpected including the world's largest arch, Kolob Arch..." More »
