See America's
National Parks

Six million acres of taiga, tundra and ice beneath North America's summit

Roadless peaks, wild rivers and caribou trails above the Arctic Circle

Where tidewater ice gives way to forest in a single human lifetime

Brown bears, salmon, and a valley buried by the 20th century's greatest eruption

An Ice Age icefield pouring glaciers into fjords full of whales

Arctic sand dunes and caribou crossings north of the Arctic Circle

Steaming volcanoes, salmon lakes, and bears on the edge of Cook Inlet

Where volcanoes, icefields and colliding terranes build a mountain kingdom

Five wild islands where California's past survives offshore

The deepest lake in America, cradled in the ruins of a volcano

Salt, stone and silence at the hottest, driest, lowest place in North America

Where two deserts meet among granite castles and shaggy Joshua trees

Boiling mud, a sleeping dome, and all four kinds of volcano in one park

An ice-clad volcano that makes its own weather above old-growth forest

Hundreds of glaciers and a sea of jagged peaks in the American Alps

Glaciers, rainforest, and wild coast on one uplifted slab of ancient seafloor

Half a volcano, carried north along the San Andreas Fault

Fog-fed giants, wild rivers, and a restless edge of the Pacific

Giant sequoias, granite canyons and the highest summit in the lower 48

Granite cathedrals polished by ice, with waterfalls pouring from the rim

Rainforest cliffs, coral reefs and flying foxes at the edge of Polynesia

From a cinder desert above the clouds to rain-fed pools beside the sea

Where the youngest land on Earth is still being born in fire

Stone windows and balanced fins above a buried sea of salt

A sunless gorge of ancient stone, sawed deep by the Gunnison River

Frost-carved hoodoos glowing on the high rim of the Paunsaugunt Plateau

A wilderness of mesas, needles and mazes where the Green meets the Colorado

A hundred-mile wrinkle in the Earth, with orchards hidden in its folds

Billion-year-old seabeds stacked into the Crown of the Continent

The Rockies' youngest range, rising sheer from the sage of Jackson Hole

North America's tallest dunes, piled against snowcapped peaks

Sandstone alcoves sheltering the stone villages of the Ancestral Pueblo

Where the Continental Divide lifts meadows into alpine tundra

A volcanic plateau that breathes steam and shelters the wild West

A river's patient knife through two thousand feet of petrified dunes

Where the Rio Grande bends, a desert cradles a sky island of oak and pine

A fossil reef hollowed by acid, beneath a sky of bats and desert stars

A mile of stone and nearly two billion years laid open by a river

Ancient bristlecones, marble caverns and a desert peak that holds ice

A Permian ocean reef lifted into the sky above the Chihuahuan Desert

Stone logs, banded badlands, and 200 million years laid open to the sky

Giant cacti, sky island forests, and the Sonoran monsoon

The world's largest gypsum dunefield, glittering white in the Chihuahuan Desert

Striped spires, fossil beds and bison on the edge of the Great Plains

A river valley reborn between Cleveland and Akron

A 630-foot stainless-steel curve rising above the Mississippi

Ancient rainwater rising hot through the folded heart of the Ouachitas

Singing sands, quaking bogs, and the birthplace of ecology on Lake Michigan

Ancient lava ridges, wolves, and moose on a wilderness island in Lake Superior

Painted badlands, bison herds, and the river that shaped a president

A water-laced wilderness of ancient rock, loons, and northern lights

A breathing labyrinth of boxwork beneath bison-grazed prairie

Pink granite, spruce and sea fog where the mountains meet the North Atlantic

A turquoise bay, mangrove shores and living coral within sight of Miami

A cathedral of champion trees on a river-fed floodplain

A brick fortress on a coral island, adrift at the edge of the Gulf

A slow river of grass flowing to a sea of mangroves

Ancient ridges wrapped in mist, and the salamander capital of the world

The longest known cave on Earth, under a quiet Kentucky forest

An ancient river carving through Appalachian sandstone and coal country

Ancient Blue Ridge crests, wooded hollows, and a hundred miles of sky

Coral gardens, dry tropical forest, and trade winds over St. John