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Congaree National Park

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

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

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

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

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

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

A remote stretch of the Rio Grande where desert, mountains, and river canyon meet, Big Bend rewards visitors willing to

Dramatic striped rock formations, wide-open prairie, and one of the richest fossil beds in the world make Badlands a stark,

Home to over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the iconic Delicate Arch, set in a red-rock desert landscape near Moab.