Crawford State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Kansas — Home to the only natural Ozark lake in Kansas — 150-acre lake with limestone bluffs in the […]
State Parks
Coney Island Beach
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Rhode Island — Not the New York one! Rhode Island’s Coney Island is a serene Narragansett Bay beach —
Rockwood Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Delaware — Gothic Revival mansion and gardenesque landscape from 1851 — built by banker Joseph Shipley in the English
John Dickinson Plantation
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Delaware — Home of John Dickinson — the “Penman of the Revolution” who wrote the Articles of Confederation! This
Susquehanna Riverlands State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania’s newest state park concept — along the lower Susquehanna River near the Conowingo Dam. The area
Sand Bridge State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Remote park in the Seven Mountains region of central Pennsylvania — named for a natural sandstone bridge
White Clay Creek Preserve
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Part of the White Clay Creek Watershed — the first National Wild and Scenic River designation for
Vosburg Neck State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — A dramatic horseshoe bend in the North Branch of the Susquehanna River — the “neck” is a
Colerain State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Small park in southern Lancaster County — features hiking trails through mixed hardwood forest along Octoraro Creek.
Conrad Weiser Memorial Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Home of Pennsylvania’s most important colonial diplomat — Conrad Weiser (1696-1760) served as intermediary between the colonial
Bushy Run Battlefield State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — The turning point of Pontiac’s War — on August 5-6, 1763, Colonel Henry Bouquet defeated a confederation
Pennsbury Manor
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — William Penn’s magnificent country estate — the founder of Pennsylvania built this manor on the Delaware River
Drake Well Museum and Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — WHERE THE OIL INDUSTRY WAS BORN — on August 27, 1859, Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil at
Brandywine Battlefield State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pennsylvania — Site of the largest single-day battle of the American Revolution — on September 11, 1777, 30,000 troops
St. Croix Islands State Recreation Area
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Minnesota — Six undeveloped islands in the St. Croix River — accessible only by canoe or kayak! These islands
Big Island State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Minnesota — On the shores of Albert Lea Lake in southern Minnesota — 116-acre “Big Island” is a glacial
Hill Annex Mine State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Minnesota — Walk through a massive open-pit iron mine that once powered America’s steel industry — Hill Annex operated
Barton Warnock Visitor Center
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Texas — Gateway to Big Bend Ranch State Park — the largest state park in Texas at 311,000 acres!
Atlanta State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Texas — On the shores of Wright Patman Lake in the piney woods of northeast Texas — 1,475-acre lake
Rancocas State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — 1,252 acres along Rancocas Creek in Burlington County — mixed hardwood forest with trails through the
Tall Pines State Preserve
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — Pine Barrens preserve protecting one of the last stands of Atlantic white cedar and pitch pine
Farny State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — Rugged 3,600-acre wildland in Morris County — one of the least developed state parks in NJ
Pigeon Swamp State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — Scenic wetland preserve in central New Jersey — 550 acres of forest and swamp that served
Capital City State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — Day-use park along the Delaware and Raritan Canal in Trenton — provides green space and recreational
Marsha P. Johnson State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Jersey — New Jersey’s newest state park — named for the legendary trans activist and drag performer who
Taylor Mill State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — Preserved 19th-century water-powered sawmill — one of the last working examples of New England’s timber industry
Nansen Ski Jump State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — Once the LARGEST ski jump in the Eastern United States — the Nansen Jump in Milan
White Island State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — The Isles of Shoals Lighthouse — 7 miles offshore on White Island! Built in 1859, this
Bedell Bridge State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — Site of what was once the longest two-span covered bridge in America — the 396-foot Bedell
Governor Wentworth Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — Ruins of Governor John Wentworth’s 1770s country estate on the shores of Lake Wentworth — the
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — The 42-room mansion of Benning Wentworth — New Hampshire’s first Royal Governor (1741-1766) who got insanely
Monadnock State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New Hampshire — Mount Monadnock is the MOST CLIMBED MOUNTAIN IN NORTH AMERICA — over 125,000 hikers summit each
Madison Lake State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ohio — Scenic 106-acre lake in central Ohio — popular for fishing, swimming, and non-motorized boating. The park offers
Mack Island State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ohio — Secluded island in Sandusky Bay — accessible only by boat! Part of the Lake Erie Islands archipelago,
Great Council State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ohio — Ohio’s newest state park (opened 2023!) — site of the 1774 Shawnee council where Chief Cornstalk debated
Erie Bluffs State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ohio — Ohio’s newest Lake Erie coastal park — 587 acres with nearly a mile of undeveloped Lake Erie
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 North Carolina — 898 acres of virgin longleaf pine forest — some trees are over 500 years old! The
Hiwassee Lake State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 North Carolina — North Carolina’s newest state park — on the pristine Hiwassee Reservoir in the far western mountains!
Wapello State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Iowa — Named for Chief Wapello of the Fox (Meskwaki) tribe — a diplomat who sought peace during the
Fort Atkinson State Preserve
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Iowa — The only U.S. fort built to protect one Native American tribe from another — built in 1840
Scott’s Gulf Wilderness State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Tennessee’s most remote and rugged canyon — a 600-foot deep gorge carved by the Caney Fork River
Ocoee River State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Home of the 1996 Olympic whitewater slalom events — the only Olympics venue ever built in the
North Chickamauga Creek Gorge State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Dramatic gorge with 5+ waterfalls near Chattanooga — the creek carves through 200-foot sandstone walls! The gorge
Middle Fork Bottoms State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Tennessee’s newest state park — a 235-acre bottomland along the Middle Fork of the Holston River in
Rocky Fork State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — 2,053 acres in the Appalachian Highlands — one of the most biologically diverse areas in Tennessee with
Seven Islands State Birding Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Tennessee’s first state park dedicated to birding — 416 acres along the French Broad River with over
Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Tennessee — Birthplace and home of America’s most decorated WWI soldier — Alvin York single-handedly captured 132 German soldiers,
Robert Toombs House State Historic Site
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Georgia — Home of Robert Toombs, Georgia’s “unreconstructed rebel” — the only Confederate Cabinet member (Secretary of State) who
Martin State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Georgia — Small park in the flatwoods of southeast Georgia — named for former Georgia legislator, the park offers
Warm Springs State Park
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Georgia — Near FDR’s Little White House — the natural warm springs (88°F year-round) attracted President Roosevelt, who first