What's on your park bucket list? Standing atop Acadia, canoeing in Voyageurs, or strolling the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone? Top two photos NPS, bottom photo by Kurt Repanshek.
What's on your national park bucket list? Which parks do you want to experience before you reach the end of the line?
For those who live in the West, within a day or two drive of such icons as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, or Grand Teton, you might be longing to visit Acadia National Park in Maine, Everglades in Florida, or Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Conversely, if you live in the East, you might be dreaming of waking up to the sound of Old Faithful erupting, walking through the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic, or standing atop Logan Pass in Glacier.
So tell us, which parks would you like to check off your bucket list?
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Don't yet know what I'll do when I arrive, but I feel like I've got to get to Aniakchak National Monument. It's almost an achievement just to say you were there.
Of all National Parks worldwide, Torres del Paine and El Tatio Geyser Field in Chile would be the top choices (both on the same bucket trip), with Dolina Geyserov (Valley of the Geysers) in Kamchatka right up there. Within the U.S., it would have to be Denali National Park.
The National Park of American Samoa. How to get there without mortgaging the house though?
Someday hope to see the bears in Katmai.
Honestly, ALL of the national parks are on my bucket list! Yosemite has already been checked off, but I'm headed back there again this summer. Unfortunately, I'll have to take a break from Yosemite if I hope to get to all of the other parks.
I would love to do one of the tours at Mesa Verde. And I have Yosemite, Acadia, The National Mall, and anything in Alaska on my bucket list.
We have taken our kids to over 15 National Parks in the last 8 months, and my vote for best so far is Glacier NP. Yosemite is on our Bucket List. Check out our adventures: http://yearlongadventure.wordpress.com/
To visit a Maine Woods National Park.
Toroweap at Grand Canyon. I've made it as far as Mount Trumbull before road conditions forced me back, but I'd love to spend a day at the far remote corner of the canyon.
In my backyard, in my lifetime, I would like to be the first visitor to the Pinelands National Park (currently Preserve).
Isle Royale National Park.
Over the years, I've been to 47 out of 50 U.S. States, much of it tent camping in the U.S. National Parks (by the way, the Canadian National and Provincial Parks are not too 'shaby' either, having been to many of them from B.C. to Newfoundland).
On my 'Buckey List" - I think I would put those U.S. Nat. Parks I've missed - not many (having been to Denali N.P., Alaska and Bryce Canyon N.P., UT 3 times!). However, I would put the following:
Glacier N.P., MT, Glacier Bay N.P., AK, Katmai, N.P., AK , Kenai Fjords, N.P., Seward, AK.
Arches, Canyonlands, Denali, Hawaii Volcanoes (was there in 1974, before the eruptions began, so would like to see it again).
At the top of my bucket list as a whitewater rafting trip through "The Gates" at Aniakchak National Monument... That just seems like such an unbelievable experience!
North Cascades NP here in America, and Gros Morne NP in Canada.
The plan is to photograph all 58 National Parks. I've shot 30 so far since 2007, (http://www.frankrabold.com/nationalparks) so only 28 more to go...
Before I die I'd love to visit Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area and experience the drive to world famous Cape Point for the surf fishing.