Badlands National Park
South Dakota
Badlands' dramatic landscape of eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires reveals millions of years of fossil-rich deposits in a striking, otherworldly terrain.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Ohio
Cuyahoga Valley preserves a green oasis between Cleveland and Akron, where waterfalls, a historic canal, and a scenic railroad wind through forested hills.
Gateway Arch National Park
Missouri
Gateway Arch is America's tallest man-made monument, a gleaming stainless steel arch symbolizing the nation's westward expansion.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Indiana
Indiana Dunes protects 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, where towering sand dunes meet one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the national park system.
Isle Royale National Park
Michigan
Isle Royale is a remote wilderness island in Lake Superior, home to wolves, moose, and one of the least-visited national parks in the system.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt preserves the rugged badlands where the young TR found solace after personal tragedy and developed his passion for conservation.
Voyageurs National Park
Minnesota
Voyageurs is a water-based wilderness on the US-Canada border, where interconnected lakes form highways through boreal forest under the dancing Northern Lights.
Wind Cave National Park
South Dakota
Wind Cave contains the world's largest concentration of rare boxwork formations, while the surface protects one of the largest remaining mixed-grass prairies.