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ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST UNUSUAL and remote national parks, Dry Tortugas National Park is located 68 miles west of Key West, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. Though it encompasses 101 square miles, more than 99 percent of the park surface area is actually the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Seven tiny islands (or six or five, depending on wave action, tides, and hurricane activity) make up the park’s land area. Just getting to the park provides visitors with a feeling of accomplishment: The only way to reach it is by boat or seaplane.
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THE WORLD’S FIRST NATIONAL PARK, Yellowstone was established before the states that now surround it became part of the Union. Unknown then to all but Native Americans, Yellowstone soon became a national icon. A great volcano broods beneath the world’s largest concentration of geysers and hot springs. Snowcapped mountains water a landscape of lakes, rivers, canyons, and forest, teeming with the full complement of northern Rockies wildlife.
Pisgah National Forest Map covers a land of mile-high peaks, cascading waterfalls, and heavily forested slopes.
Nantahala National Forest is the largest of the four national forests in North Carolina. The terrain varies from 1,200 feet (36.58 m) in Cherokee County along the Hiwassee River to 5,800 feet (1,7678.8 m) at Lone Bald in Jackson County.
Black Hills National Forest Map includes trails with mileage between intersections, numbered US Forest Service roads, motorised trails, and hundreds of points of interest such as campgrounds, trailheads, and boat ramps.
Cherokee National Forest Map delivers unmatched detail and helpful information for experienced outdoor enthusiasts and casual visitors.
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WHEN RANGERS AT WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK describe it as the “best of both worlds,” they are referring to the realms below and above the Earth’s surface. Underground lies one of the world’s most complex and unusual caves; above is a globally significant expanse of mixed-grass prairie, home to wildlife—from massive bison to playful prairie dogs to sky blue mountain bluebirds.
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THERE COMES A MOMENT when vast rolling grassland drops away to a fantastic landscape of pyramids, pillars, bluffs, knife-edge ridges, and narrow canyons. The star in these formations: water. It’s been carving away at the cliffs for the past half million years or so. Badlands National Park is a place of great theatricality, an enormous stage set—colorful, dramatic, and not quite real. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright referred to it as “an endless supernatural world.”
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THE WORLD’S TALLEST KNOWN TREES stand in the redwood forests of the northern California coast. Redwood National Park blends federal and state lands into a harmonious ode to grandeur. While giant trees get top billing, Redwood is much more than supersize flora. The park also protects 37 miles of pristine Pacific coast, wild rivers and streams, rich wildlife populations, and relics of pioneer days.
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LIKE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, the Grand Canyon is an American icon. (It’s almost as if the majesty of the American West has been poured into a limestone riverbed.) Theodore Roosevelt considered it his civic duty to urge every American to see it. And around five million people come to Grand Canyon National Park every year, from all over the globe. Indeed, the canyon is considered one of the seven wonders of the natural world.
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