Name: America's National Parks
Uploaded: 2015
Description: Experience the splendor of untamed America. For the first time, view all 58 of America's national parks, shot in stunning High Definition.

Experience the splendor of untamed America. For the first time, view all 58 of America's national parks, shot in stunning High Definition.

Old Faithful, and the majority of the world's geysers, are preserved here. They are the main reason the park was established in 1872 as America's first national park, an idea that spread worldwide. The park is one of the last, nearly intact, natural ecosystems in the Earth's temperate zone.

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Old Faithful, and the majority of the world's geysers, are preserved here.

Yellowstone

This landscape testifies to nature's size, beauty, and diversity - huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, and the world's largest trees.

Sequoia

First protected in 1864, Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.

Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find a vast wilderness area, and much more.

Yosemite

Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning six major rivers.

Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape.

Mt. Rainier

Located in southern Oregon, Crater Lake National Park is the fifth oldest national park in the United States. Crater Lake's Earth-blue waters, with islands that appear to float upon the lake itself, add to the Park's supernatural energy.

Located in southern Oregon, Crater Lake National Park is the fifth oldest national park in the United States.

Crater Lake

Swaying prairie grasses, forested hillsides, and an array of wildlife such as bison, elk, and prairie dogs welcome visitors to one of our country's oldest national parks and one of its few remaining intact prairies. Secreted beneath is one of the world's longest caves, Wind Cave.

Swaying prairie grasses, forested hillsides, and an array of wildlife welcome visitors to one of our country's oldest national parks.

Wind Cave

Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites.

Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300.

Mesa Verde

Glacier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Montana, south of the borders with the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park inhabits more than 1,000 different species of plants and hundreds of species of animals.

Glacier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Montana, south of the borders with the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.

Glacier

Rocky Mountain National Park's 415 square miles encompass and protect spectacular mountain environments. Enjoy Trail Ridge Road - which crests over 12,000 feet including many overlooks to experience the subalpine and alpine worlds - along with over 300 miles of hiking trails.

Rocky Mountain National Park's 415 square miles encompass and protect spectacular mountain environments.

Rocky Mountain

Haleakala is a special place that resonates with both ancient and modern Hawaiian culture, and it protects the bond between the land and its people. Haleakala also cares for endangered species, some of which exist nowhere else on Earth.

Haleakala is a special place that resonates with both ancient and modern Hawaiian culture, and it protects the bond between the land and its people.

Haleakala

Volcanoes are monuments to Earth's origin, evidence that its primordial forces are still at work. During a volcanic eruption, we are reminded that our planet is an ever-changing environment whose basic processes are beyond human control.

Volcanoes are monuments to Earth's origin, evidence that its primordial forces are still at work.

Hawai'i Volcanoes

Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to smoking fumaroles, meadows freckled with wildflowers, clear mountain lakes, and numerous volcanoes. Jagged peaks tell the story of its eruptive past while hot water continues to mold the land.

Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to smoking fumaroles, meadows freckled with wildflowers, clear mountain lakes, and numerous volcanoes.

Lassen

Denali National Park and Preserve is 6 million acres of pristine wilderness located in interior Alaska. The park's centerpiece, Denali, the highest peak in North America. The land preserves one of America's most remote lands, helping to keep the code of the wild intact.

Denali National Park and Preserve is 6 million acres of pristine wilderness located in interior Alaska. The park's centerpiece, Denali, the highest peak in North America

Denali

Acadia National Park is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine. It reserves much of Mount Desert Island, and associated smaller islands, off the Atlantic coast. Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the oldest National Park east of the Mississippi River, it was renamed.

Acadia National Park is a National Park located in the U.S. state of Maine.

Acadia

Beloved around the globe as an iconic symbol of America, the sights and sounds of the Grand Canyon dazzle like nothing else on Earth, and opportunities for outdoor activities are extensive. Mother Nature used her special paintbrush here.

Beloved around the globe as an iconic symbol of America, the sights and sounds of the Grand Canyon dazzle like nothing else on Earth.

Grand Canyon

Follow the paths where ancient native people and pioneers walked. Gaze up at massive sandstone cliffs of cream, pink, and red that soar into a brilliant blue sky. Challenge your courage in a narrow slot canyon. Zion's unique array of plants and animals will enchant you as you absorb the rich history

Follow the paths where ancient native people and pioneers walked. Gaze up at massive sandstone cliffs of cream, pink, and red that soar into a brilliant blue sky.

Zion

Water. That's what first attracted people, and they have been coming here ever since to use these soothing thermal waters to heal and relax. Rich and poor alike came for the baths, and a thriving city built up around the hot springs.

Water. That's what first attracted people, and they have been coming here ever since to use these soothing thermal waters to heal and relax.

Hot Springs

Bryce Canyon, the boundaries of which form the National Park in southwestern Utah, features naturally carved amphitheaters of epic proportion. The bold, natural hues and color of sand and stone dazzle in the sun and are an artist?s dream.

Bryce Canyon, the boundaries of which form the National Park in southwestern Utah, features naturally carved amphitheaters of epic proportion.

Bryce Canyon

Nestled in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, approximately 310,000 acres are dedicated to Grand Teton National Park. The park includes all major peaks of the 40-mile-long Teton Range, and overall, this pristine ecosystem contains flora and fauna that have existed here since prehistoric times.

Nestled in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, approximately 310,000 acres are dedicated to Grand Teton National Park.

Grand Teton

The wonders of cavernous exploration come to life in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, located in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is its' spectacular namesake, Carlsbad Cavern.

The wonders of cavernous exploration come to life in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, located in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico.

Carlsbad Caverns

Everglades National Park offers visitors an exciting journey into one of the wettest and wildest parts of the United States- the Everglades. Representing 20% of the original everglade landmass, the national park protects a wide range of indigenous plants and animals.

Everglades National Park offers visitors an exciting journey into one of the wettest and wildest parts of the United States- the Everglades.

Everglades

Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, help attract many.

Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Great Smokies

75 miles from the bustle of Washington, D.C., Shenandoah National Park is your escape to cascading waterfalls, spectacular vistas, and quiet wooded hollows. Take a hike, meander along Skyline Drive, or picnic with the family. 200,000 acres of land are haven to deer, songbirds... and you.

75 miles from the bustle of Washington, D.C., Shenandoah National Park is your escape to cascading waterfalls, spectacular vistas, and quiet wooded hollows.

Shenandoah

Olympic National Park is a land of beauty and variety. A day's exploration can take you from mountain vistas with meadows of wildflowers to colorful ocean tide pools. Nestled in valleys are remnants of large, ancient forests. Olympic is like three magical parks in one.

Olympic National Park is a land of beauty and variety. A day's exploration can take you from mountain vistas with meadows of wildflowers to colorful ocean tide pools.

Olympic

This landscape testifies to nature's size, beauty, and diversity, replete with striking mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, and the world's largest trees. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks lie side-by-side in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of the San Joaquin Valley.

This landscape testifies to nature's size, beauty, and diversity, replete with striking mountains, rugged foothills, vast caverns, and the world's largest trees.

Kings Canyon

Explore a rugged, isolated island where wolves and moose abound, far from the sights and sounds of civilization. Surrounded by Lake Superior, Isle Royale offers unparalleled solitude and adventures for backpackers, hikers, boaters, kayakers, canoeists, and scuba divers.

Explore a rugged, isolated island where wolves and moose abound, far from the sights and sounds of civilization.

Isle Royale

Mammoth Cave National Park preserves the cave system and a part of the Green River valley and hilly country of south-central Kentucky. This is the world's longest known cave system, with more than 400 miles explored.

Mammoth Cave National Park preserves the cave system and a part of the Green River valley and hilly country of south-central Kentucky

Mammoth Cave

Big Bend National Park in Texas has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, which includes more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals. It is larger.

Big Bend National Park in Texas has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States.

Big Bend

The hills, valleys, and beaches of Virgin Islands National Park are breathtaking, and worthy of ageless preservation. Dating back centuries, the history of the islands reveals a complex history of civilizations, both free and enslaved, all who utilized the land and the sea for their survival.

The hills, valleys, and beaches of Virgin Islands National Park are breathtaking, and worthy of ageless preservation.

Virgin Islands

Globally renowned for its significant Late Triassic fossils, Petrified Forest National Park attracts many researchers. Geologists study the multi-hued Chinle Formation, archeologists research over 13,000 years of history, and biologists explore one of the best remnants of native Arizona grassland.

Globally renowned for its significant Late Triassic fossils, Petrified Forest National Park attracts many researchers.

Petrified Forest

Canyonlands National Park preserves a colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River and tributaries.

Canyonlands

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is the world's premier example of a fossil reef from the Permian Era. The park is known for its extensive hiking and backpacking opportunities in one of the nation's most pristine wilderness areas.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is the world's premier example of a fossil reef from the Permian Era.

Guadalupe Mountains

These mountains are calling for you. Less than three hours from Seattle, an alpine landscape beckons. Discover communities of life adapted to persistent moisture in the west and recurrent fire in the east -- all sensitive to climate change.

Discover communities of life adapted to persistent moisture in the west and recurrent fire in the east -- all sensitive to climate change.

North Cascades

Most people know Redwood National Park as the home to the tallest trees on Earth. Yet, the park also protects vast prairies, oak woodlands, wild riverways, and nearly 40 miles of pristine coastline, all supporting a rich mosaic of wildlife diversity and cultural traditions.

Most people know Redwood National Park as the home to the tallest trees on Earth.

Redwood

Voyageurs National Park lies within the heart of the North American Continent. Here you can see and touch rocks half as old as the world, experience the life of a voyageur, immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of a boreal forest, view the night skies, or ply the interconnected water routes.

Voyageurs National Park lies within the heart of the North American Continent. Here you can see and touch rocks half as old as the world.

Voyageurs

Arches National Park in eastern Utah is known for preserving over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to an incredible variety of unique geological resources and land formations. Mother Nature truly is an artist at heart.

Arches National Park in eastern Utah is known for preserving over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch.

Arches

Capitol Reef National Park offers visitors a stunning array of incredible landscapes, where light and shadow delicately streak across the stark and bold faces of rock and stone. Located in south-central Utah, Capitol Reef is 100 miles long, but quite narrow. The park preserves 241,904 acres of land.

Capitol Reef National Park offers visitors a stunning array of incredible landscapes, where light and shadow delicately streak across the bold faces of rock and stone.

Capital Reef

Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The stratified coloring of the land marks centuries of slow, methodical earthworks at play.

Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires.

Badlands

When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was a skinny, young, spectacled dude from New York. He could not have imagined how his adventure in this remote and unfamiliar place would forever alter the course of the nation.

When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, he was a skinny, young, spectacled dude from New York.

Theodore Roosevelt

Channel Islands National Park is a United States national park that consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of the U.S. state of California, in the Pacific Ocean.

Channel Islands National Park is a United States national park that consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of the U.S. state of California.

Channel Islands

Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, south of Miami. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs, offering visitors some of the most remarkable aquatic experiences, above and below the water, in the United States.

Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, south of Miami. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs.

Biscayne

Roughly the size of Switzerland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the northernmost national park in the U.S., and the second largest at 13,238 square miles. Like its brother and sister parks, Gates of the Arctic preserves a sacred part of natural, wild America.

Roughly the size of Switzerland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the northernmost national park in the U.S., and the second largest.

Gates of the Arctic

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a World Heritage Site, is comprised of 3.3 million acres of treasured natural wonders and wildlife, and is located near Juneau, Alaska. Magnificent glaciers, towering snow-capped mountains, abundant wildlife, and mile after mile of immaculate coastline.

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a World Heritage Site, is comprised of 3.3 million acres of treasured natural wonders and wildlife, and is located near Juneau, Alaska.

Glacier Bay

Katmai National Monument was created in 1918 to preserve the famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a spectacular forty-square-mile, 100-to-700-foot-deep, ash flow deposited by Novarupta Volcano in 1912.

A National Park & Preserve since 1980, today Katmai is still famous for volcanoes, remote wilderness, and a rugged coastline.

Katmai

At the edge of the Kenai Peninsula lies a land where the last Ice Age still lingers. Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords' crowning feature. Wildlife thrives in icy waters and lush forests around this vast expanse of ice where blue is depicted in a million hues.

At the edge of the Kenai Peninsula lies a land where the last Ice Age still lingers. Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords' crowning feature.

Kenai Fjords

For 9,000 years, people traveled to Onion Portage in Kobuk National Park to harvest the caribou as they crossed the river. Even today, that rich tradition continues along the Kobuk River. Half a million caribou migrate through the region, their tracks crisscrossing massive, sculpted dunes.

For 9,000 years, people traveled to Onion Portage in Kobuk National Park to harvest the caribou as they crossed the river.

Kobuk Valley

Lake Clark National Park is a land of stunning beauty where volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes, and local people rely on the land?s vital resources. Solitude is found around every bend in the river, and every shoulder of a mountain.

Lake Clark National Park is a land of stunning beauty where volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes, and local people rely on the land?s vital resources.

Lake Clark

At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park stretches out from one of the tallest peaks in North America. Yet, within this wild landscape, people have been living off the land for centuries, and still do today. The park is a rugged, yet, inviting place to experience your own adventure.

At 13.2 million acres, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park stretches out from one of the tallest peaks in North America.

Wrangell-St Elias

In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. The Great Basin National Park has the solitude of the desert, the smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm, the darkest of night skies, and the beauty of Lehman Caves.

In the shadow of 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines.

Great Basin

The National Park of American Samoa is an exotic national park in the American Territory of American Samoa, distributed across three separate and stunning islands: Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta'_. It is the only American national park south of the Equator.

The National Park of American Samoa is a park in the American Territory of American Samoa, distributed across three separate and stunning islands: Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta'_.

American Samoa

Almost 70 miles west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. The 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands.

Dry Tortugas

Tucson, Arizona is home to the nation's largest cacti. The giant saguaro is the universal symbol of the American west. These majestic plants, found only in a small portion of the USA, are protected by Saguaro National Park, where cacti are silhouetted by the beauty of magnificent desert sunsets.

Tucson, Arizona is home to the nation's largest cacti. The giant saguaro is the universal symbol of the American west.

Saguaro

Death Valley National Park is a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. The park contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains.

Death Valley National Park is a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada.

Death Valley

Viewed from the road, this desert park only hints at its vitality. Closer examination reveals a fascinating variety of plants and animals that make their home in this land shaped by strong winds, unpredictable torrents of rain, and climatic extremes.

Viewed from the road, this desert park only hints at its vitality. Closer examination reveals a fascinating variety of plants and animals.

Joshua Tree

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a United States National Park located in western Colorado. The Black Canyon is so named on account of its steepness which makes it difficult for sunlight to penetrate very far down the canyon.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a United States National Park located in western Colorado.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a United States national park that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a United States national park that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River.

Cuyahoga

Congaree National Park in South Carolina provides a sanctuary for plants and animals, a research site for scientists, and a place for you to walk and relax in a tranquil wilderness setting amid giant hardwoods and towering pines.

Congaree National Park in South Carolina provides a sanctuary for plants and animals.

Congaree

The tallest dunes in North America are the centerpiece in a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra. Experience this diversity through hiking, sand sledding, splashing in Medano Creek, wildlife watching, and more!

The tallest dunes in North America are the centerpiece in a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra.

Great Sand Dunes

Old volcanic rock formations that have been rounded by atmospheres and weather over the course of time add a commanding presence to Pinnacles National Park, given park status in 2013, and home to a variety of unique winged inhabitants, some of which are extremely rare.

Old volcanic rock formations that have been rounded by atmospheres and weather over the course of time add a commanding presence to Pinnacles National Park.