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Yellowstone National Park

The world’s first national park, famous for Old Faithful and thousands of other geothermal features, plus abundant wildlife including wolves,

Towering granite cliffs like El Capitan and Half Dome, waterfalls, and giant sequoia groves make Yosemite Valley one of the

The largest national park in the U.S. — bigger than Switzerland — with massive glaciers, volcanic peaks, and the historic

Rolling Blue Ridge Mountain scenery along the 105-mile Skyline Drive, with waterfalls, wildlife, and fall foliage a short drive from

Home to General Sherman, the largest tree on Earth by volume, and vast groves of giant sequoias in the southern

Alpine tundra above 12,000 feet, Trail Ridge Road (the highest continuous paved road in the U.S.), and abundant elk make

Remnants of an ancient volcano form the towering rock spires and talus caves of this park, home to a reintroduced

An extraordinary range of ecosystems in one park — glacier-capped mountains, temperate rainforest, and wild Pacific coastline — connected by

Jagged, glacier-covered peaks and turquoise alpine lakes earn this park the nickname ‘the American Alps’ — one of the least-visited

An active volcano and the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S., ringed by old-growth forest and legendary summer wildflower