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Death Valley National Park

The hottest, driest, lowest national park in the country, with salt flats, sand dunes, and colorful badlands stretching across the

A ribbon of forest, farmland, and the Cuyahoga River winding between Cleveland and Akron, with waterfalls, a scenic railroad, and

The deepest lake in the U.S., filling a collapsed volcanic caldera with famously vivid blue water, ringed by a 33-mile

The largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the U.S., known for its elevated boardwalk trail and

Five undeveloped islands off the Southern California coast, reachable only by boat or plane, offering sea caves, kelp forests, and

New Cave

An enormous underground cave system beneath the Chihuahuan Desert, with self-guided and ranger-led routes through chambers large enough to swallow

A 100-mile wrinkle in the earth’s crust called the Waterpocket Fold, dotted with slot canyons, historic orchards, and some of

Utah’s largest national park, carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers into a maze of canyons, mesas, and buttes, divided

Famous for its amphitheaters of hoodoos — thin spires of red, orange, and white rock — best seen at sunrise

A narrow, sheer-walled canyon carved by the Gunnison River, with some of the steepest cliffs and oldest exposed rock in