Indiana holds exactly one national park, and it’s a genuine surprise to many first-time visitors: sand dunes rising along the…
National Parks in Alaska: Locations, Ticket Prices, Facts & History
Alaska holds eight national parks, more than any state except California, yet all eight combined draw fewer annual visitors than…
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Seattle residents can see it from nearly 100 miles away on a clear day, a solitary white peak rising so…
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
In December 1888, two cattle ranchers searching for lost steer spotted something extraordinary through a winter snowstorm: a massive stone…
Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Costa Rica’s smallest national park somehow manages to be its most visited, packing rainforest, coral reef, and four separate monkey…
Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
In 1797, a hunter chased a bear into a hole in a Kentucky cliff and stumbled onto the entrance to…
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
In May 1915, Lassen Peak blew a mushroom-shaped cloud of ash more than 30,000 feet into the sky, the most…
Kruger National Park, South Africa: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
A game reserve half the size of Belgium, home to Africa’s Big Five, and named after a Boer president who…
Kings Canyon National Park, California: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
The General Grant Tree is the only living organism in the United States formally designated a national shrine by an…
Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
More than half of Kenai Fjords National Park is buried under ice, a single massive icefield feeding nearly 40 separate…