National Parks, Parkways, Preserves, Memorials and Monuments
During this trip, we visited 37 sites administered by the National Park Service. Many of them are free, but the big ones charge entrance fees of ten or twenty dollars. If you like visiting national parks, you should take advantage of the National Parks Pass, which lets you into any national park for one full year for a one-time cost of $50 [note: in 2002 dollars; price was $80 as of 2010], which saved us about $150, give or take. Here are the official NPS sites for each park we saw:
This star marks my favorites. You should visit them.
- Acadia National Park (Maine)
- Arches National Park (Utah)
- Badlands National Park (South Dakota)
- Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Maryland)
- Big Cypress National Preserve (Florida)
- Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina)
- California National Historic Trail (California)
- Canaveral National Seashore (Florida)
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Massachusetts)
- Crater Lake National Park (Oregon)
- Death Valley National Park (California)
- Everglades National Park (Florida)
- George Washington Memorial Parkway (Virginia)
- Glacier National Park (Montana)
- Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona)
- Grand Teton National Park (Wyoming)
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Missouri)
- John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway (Wyoming)
- Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail (Several states)
- Manzanar National Historic Site (California)
- Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail (Utah)
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (South Dakota)
- Natchez Trace Parkway (Mississippi)
- National Mall (Washington D.C.)
- Oklahoma City National Memorial (Oklahoma)
- Oregon National Historic Trail (Oregon)
- Pennsylvania Avenue Nat'l Historic Site (Wash. D.C.)
- Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona)
- Redwood National and State Parks (California)
- Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado)
- Salem Maritime National Historic Site (Massachusetts)
- Shenandoah National Park (Virginia)
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Dakota)
- Washington Monument (Washington D.C.)
- White Sands National Monument (New Mexico)
- Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming)
- Yosemite National Park (California)