Sledding down a sand dune 750 feet tall might sound like a novelty activity dreamed up for tourists, but at…
Great Basin National Park, Nevada: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
In 1964, a geography researcher studying bristlecone pines cut down a tree to count its rings, only to discover afterward…
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Rocks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon are nearly two billion years old, roughly half the age of the…
Glacier National Park, Montana: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Ask anyone who’s driven the Going-to-the-Sun Road at sunrise, and they’ll tell you the same thing: photos don’t do it…
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
When Captain George Vancouver sailed past this stretch of Alaskan coastline in 1794, he charted little more than a small…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Over three days in July 1863, more than 50,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or went missing on the fields…
Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
There’s no wilderness, no camping, and no hiking trail longer than a city block at Gateway Arch National Park, the…
Everglades National Park, Florida: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Most national parks exist to protect a mountain, a canyon, or some other dramatic landmark. Everglades National Park was different…
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah: Map, Location, Ridge, Facts & History
Drive through miles of dry, rugged desert in south-central Utah, and then suddenly the land drops into a ribbon of…
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: Map, Location, Ticket Price, Facts & History
Every summer evening at Carlsbad Caverns, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out of the cave’s natural entrance…