LIST OF NATIONAL PARKS BY REGION

LIST OF NATIONAL PARKS BY REGION:

Although there are currently 429 different units in the National Park System (Parks, Monuments, Nat’l Battlefields, Lakeshores & many more), the National Parks are the biggies!  To make your trip planning a little easier…and so you don’t miss them…here are the Regions you are researching, and the National Parks that are located in them.

1). New Europe

      Maine: Acadia

2). New England

  North Carolina: Great Smoky Mountains

  South Carolina: Congaree

 Virginia: Shenandoah

3). The Deep South

    Arkansas: Hot Springs

   Florida: Biscayne; Dry Tortugas; Everglades

4). Blue Grass Country

    Kentucky: Mammoth Cave

   Ohio: Cuyahoga

  Tennessee: Great Smoky Mountains

         West Virginia: New River Gorge

5). The Breadbasket

   Missouri: Gateway Arch

6). The Great Lakes

   Michigan: Isle Royale

    Minnesota: Voyageurs

     Indiana: Indiana Dunes

7). The Old West

 Colorado: Black Canyon of the Gunnison; Great Sand Dunes; Mesa Verde; Rocky Mtn

      Montana: Glacier

      Nevada: Great Basin

   North Dakota: Theodore Roosevelt

        South Dakota: Badlands; Wind Cave

       Wyoming: Grand Teton;  Yellowstone

8). The Pacific Northwest

Northern California: Kings Canyon; Lassen Volcanic; Pinnacles; Redwood; Yosemite

   Idaho: Yellowstone

     Oregon: Crater Lake

 Washington: Mount Rainer; North Cascades; Olympic

9). The Southwest

     Southern California: Channel Islands; Death Valley; Joshua Tree; Sequoia

 Arizona: Grand Canyon; Petrified Forest; Saguar

 New Mexico: Carlsbad Caverns; White Sands

     Texas: Big Bend; Guadalupe Mountains

        Utah: Arches; Bryce Canyon; Canyonlands; Capitol Reef; Zion

(10). Alaska, American Samoa, Hawaii & Virgin Islands  

                Alaska: Denali; Gates of the Artic; Glacier Bay; Katmai; Kenai Fords; Kobuk Valley; Lake Clark; Wrangell-St Elias

  Hawaii: Haleakala; Hawaii Volcanos

   American Samoa: American Samoa

    U.S. Virgin Islands: Virgin Islands.

* If you are going to be visiting some of the National Parks, consider getting a National Parks

Pass.  It is good for any unit in the National Park System, and pays for itself with one visit to a Park!

*Don’t forget to grab a National Park Passport (found at most all National Park System Units).  In it you can put stamps, dates, and memories.  ENJOY!!