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American Samoa National Park

The only U.S. national park south of the equator, spread across three Samoan islands with rainforest-covered ridges, coral reefs, and

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

A water-based park along the Canadian border, best explored by boat or canoe across its interconnected lakes, with some of

Badlands scenery in three separate units where Theodore Roosevelt once ranched, with free-roaming bison, wild horses, and prairie dog towns.

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

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

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

Remote Arctic dunes and the Kobuk River, home to the twice-yearly caribou migration — one of the least-visited parks in