The best and the worst national parks, travelers who visited 63 of them

Going up the Snake River Valley as a herd of teeth of the shark, the Teton chain is one of the most impressive landscapes on the planet.

In addition, the park is just a stone throwing Jackson holeThe famous cowboy-city that has become-ski-haven from Wyoming. As such, there are a lot of nearby phenomenal restaurants and chic lodges to go to bed when you don’t hundreds of kilometers of trails.

In summer, take your spray to bear and spend a day hiking on Lake Trapper. If you visit when it is snowy, book a fauna vision trip with Jackson Hole Eco Tours to have a chance to photograph the moose and wolves.

Yes, it is one of the most remote national parks in the group, but the huge Alaska Arctic doors is one of the few places on earth which has completely upset what I thought that a wild zone could be.

Hosting caribou migrations to thousands of people, wild rivers and imposing peaks from the Brooks range, this Far-North site is well worth the time to get there.

Alaska Adventures Alpine is one of the rare tour operators who will bring the guests to this extent of the Arctic circle. Choose between a hiking trip to Aridgetch peaks or a refreshing tour of the river – anyway, you will be aware of the solitude of another world of the park and the kilometers of green tundra.

Nestled in distant West Texas, Big turn Offers a panoramic escape from the landscapes for most dishes in the state.

It is also a fantastic park for those of us with short duration of attention – choose between picturesque readers (such as Boulder and Cactus hikes), Riverside hikes (such as Santa Elena Canyon), or rafting adventures along the Rio Grande.

When you are not ventured, be sure to dive in the hot sources of Langford, torrid of the park.

Made even more famous by films like “Free Solo”, Yosemite has always been renowned for its roaring waterfalls, its hike Stellar Sierra Nevada and its cliffs-Haut in Polirux granite.

Yosemite National Park is surrounded by striking and mountainous landscapes, wooded hills and picturesque gateway cities.

Of course, this is one of the most crowded national parksBut I have always found fairly easy to escape the crowds in trekking in the high country of the region, by tripping on Hetch Hetchy or by visiting in the fall (when most children are back in school).

It may be fun to spend half a day to chancer on the famous sand dunes by the Indiana lake – unfortunately, I found this site small and linked to the city.

While exploring the Indiana dunes national park, hikers are regularly welcomed by views of power plants and absent from Chicago Skyline.

In addition, the Dunefield was much larger than its current spread – unfortunately, a large part of its mass was transported by glass companies and manufacturers in the early 1900s.

I found the park itself as a reminder of the reason why we must preserve the important landscapes before being too developed by the interests of companies. For me, this park is more a symbol of Western industrialization than a piece of immaculate nature.

Urban landscape more glorified than nature conservation, Gateway arc was created as a national park in 2018, after a Missouri senator sponsored a bill to rethink the national extension memorial of Jefferson.

This decision follows a renovation of $ 380 million on the site, to renovate the arc and to add an underground history museum to the ownership of the city center of St. Louis.

Although the architecture of the spatial age of the arc itself is impressive, I found that it was the most surprising national park of my quest.

With its well -maintained lawns and its paved trails, it does not look like a typical national park. Even an interim deputy director of the National Park Service said that the small site corresponded to the department Definition of a national monument Much more than a park.

Unlike most public lands, Gateway Arch invoices additional funds for important attractions once guests enter the premises, such as climbing inside the arc, which may look like a Disneyland style cash.

Maybe I just received a bad weather during the watered boat ride for Florida’s dry tortogs, but I found that it was the least impressive American national beach parks.

His snorkeling areas were small and relatively uninhabited by marine life during my visit.

Although the fort of the era of the civil war of the park is an impressive feat of engineering, it looks much more like a national monument dedicated to the history of our country than an escape from the happy island.

Like most of my least favorite national parks, access to dry tortogs is largely controlled by a private tour operator, which means that most travelers will have to pay for a Key West ferry wrinkle to this small group of islands.

In my opinion, you could visit the National Park or a jet of Biscayne nearby for the Virgin Islands for a more immersive tropical park experience.