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Use this directory to browse America's State Parks profiles by destination, activity, facilities, and nearby trip ideas. The finder is built from our park profile database and is designed for planning decisions: compare parks, open detailed profiles, then use official park links for current fees, permits, closures, and reservations.

Current public scope: 2,900+ state park profiles across all 50 states. See our editorial review methodology for how ASP researches, updates, and reviews park information.

Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park (Utah)

Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Utah — Site of the largest military encampment in U.S. history at the time — in 1858, President Buchanan […]

Wah-Sha-She State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Oklahoma — Named for the Osage word for their nation — this park overlooks Hulah Lake in Osage County,

Florala State Park (Alabama)

Florala State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Alabama — Beautiful park on Lake Jackson right on the Alabama-Florida state line — the lake literally crosses the

Claude D. Kelley State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Alabama — 25-acre spring-fed lake in the pine forests of southern Alabama — named for Claude D. Kelley, an

Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park (New-Mexico)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 New-mexico — The first state-funded Vietnam Veterans memorial in the nation — dedicated in 1971 at Angel Fire, NM

Gopher Tortoise emerging from its burrow at South Fork State Park

South Fork State Recreation Area

🏆🏆🏆🏆 Ruby Mountains Gateway — Recreation area on the South Fork Humboldt River in the shadow of the Ruby Mountains

Wild Horse State Recreation Area (Nevada)

Wild Horse State Recreation Area

🏆 Official Guide: Wild Horse State Recreation Area — A high-desert reservoir oasis at 6,200 feet in northeastern Nevada, offering

Webster State Park (Kansas)

Webster State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆 Smoky Hills Reservoir — 3,780-acre Webster Reservoir on the South Fork Solomon River — one of the best walleye

Prairie Dog State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Prairie Dog Town — Named for the massive black-tailed prairie dog colonies! This park surrounds 9,000-acre Norton Reservoir (Sebelius

Fort Delaware State Park (Delaware)

Fort Delaware State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Island Fortress — Civil War-era island fortress in the Delaware River — Fort Delaware held up to 12,500 Confederate

aerial photograph of Sully Creek State Park

Sully Creek State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Badlands Horseback — 800-acre equestrian paradise along the Little Missouri River in the North Dakota Badlands — one of

Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site (Illinois)

Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Illinois’ oldest surviving capitol building (1836) — where young Abraham Lincoln served his first terms as

Postville Courthouse State Historic Site (Illinois)

Postville Courthouse State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Replica of the original Lincoln County courthouse (1840) — young Abraham Lincoln tried cases here as

Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site (Illinois)

Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — 1802 French Colonial mansion of Pierre Menard — first Lieutenant Governor of Illinois! The finest example

Old State Capitol State Historic Site (Illinois)

Old State Capitol State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Where Abraham Lincoln delivered his “House Divided” speech on June 16, 1858 — “A house divided

Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site (Illinois)

Metamora Courthouse State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — One of only two remaining courthouses where Abraham Lincoln practiced law on the 8th Judicial Circuit

Lincoln's Tomb State Historic Site (Illinois)

Lincoln’s Tomb State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — The final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of their four sons

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site (Illinois)

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — The last home of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln’s father and stepmother! The

Lewis and Clark State Historic Site (Illinois)

Lewis and Clark State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Where the Lewis and Clark Expedition began! Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) was built here in December

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site (Illinois)

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — The most imposing French colonial fortress in North America — built 1753 with 18-foot-thick stone walls!

Douglas Tomb State Historic Site (Illinois)

Douglas Tomb State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — 96-foot marble monument over the tomb of Senator Stephen A. Douglas — Lincoln’s great debate rival!

David Davis Mansion State Historic Site (Illinois)

David Davis Mansion State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — 1872 Victorian mansion of Supreme Court Justice David Davis — Lincoln’s campaign manager who masterminded the

Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site (Illinois)

Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Frank Lloyd Wright’s best-preserved Prairie-style home (1902-1904) — 35 rooms, 12,000 square feet with 250 art

Carl Sandburg State Historic Site (Illinois)

Carl Sandburg State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878) — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Chicago Poems”

Bryant Cottage State Historic Site (Illinois)

Bryant Cottage State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — The house where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed to their famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates —

Black Hawk State Historic Site (Illinois)

Black Hawk State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Site of the 1832 Black Hawk War along the Rock River — where Sauk leader Black

Bishop Hill State Historic Site (Illinois)

Bishop Hill State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Illinois History — Preserved 1846 Swedish utopian commune — 1,500 Swedish immigrants led by Erik Jansson built this communal

Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site (Missouri)

Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Historic cemetery near Arrow Rock — burial site of the Sappington family, including Dr. John Sappington

Osage Village State Historic Site (Missouri)

Osage Village State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Archaeological site of a major Osage Nation village occupied from the 1600s to 1700s — the

Morris State Park

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Small park in the Missouri Bootheel — part of the unique Mississippi alluvial plain region, one

Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site (Missouri)

Jewell Cemetery State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Historic African American cemetery in Columbia — final resting place for enslaved and free Black Missourians

Iliniwek Village State Historic Site (Missouri)

Iliniwek Village State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Archaeological site of a 17th-century Illinois (Illiniwek) Confederation village — the Kaskaskia and Peoria peoples lived

Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Grand 1860 antebellum home in New Madrid — built by merchant William Hunter in the “Bootheel”

Fort Davidson State Historic Site (Missouri)

Fort Davidson State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Site of the Battle of Pilot Knob (September 27, 1864) — 1,500 Union soldiers held off

Felix Valle House State Historic Site (Missouri)

Felix Valle House State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — 1818 French Colonial limestone house in Ste. Genevieve — oldest permanent European settlement west of the

Deutschheim State Historic Site (Missouri)

Deutschheim State Historic Site

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Missouri History — Preserves the German heritage of Hermann, Missouri — founded in 1836 by the Deutsche Ansiedlungs-Gesellschaft as

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