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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: 4,080 park profiles across all 50 states, including 2,500+ state parks. See our editorial review methodology for how ASP researches, updates, and reviews park information.

ocean view at odiorne point state park in new hampshire

Odiorne Point State Park

Odiorne Point State Park is a public state park in New Hampshire near Rye in Rockingham County. Spanning 135 acres and established in 1961, this…

Delta Meadows River Park (California)

Delta Meadows River Park

Delta Meadows River Park is a public state park in California in Sacramento County. Spanning 472 acres and established in 1985, this park offers a…

Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site (Oregon)

Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site

Tolovana Beach State Recreation Site is a public state park in Oregon near Cannon Beach in Clatsop County. The park offers a peaceful retreat…

Morgan-Monroe State Forest (Indiana)

Morgan-Monroe State Forest

Morgan-Monroe State Forest covers about 24,500 acres of ridges and hardwood valleys in Morgan and Monroe counties, Indiana. It is managed by the Indiana DNR Division of Forestry, not by Indiana’s state park system.

Bucktail State Park Natural Area (Pennsylvania)

Bucktail State Park Natural Area

Bucktail State Park Natural Area is a public state park in Pennsylvania near Chapman Township in Clinton County. Spanning 21,039 acres and…

Santos Trailhead (Florida)

Santos Trailhead

IMBA Epic in the Sunshine State Most people don’t associate Florida with mountain biking. Santos Trailhead will change that. Located

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park (New Jersey)

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park is a linear park along more than 70 miles of canal towpath, from Frenchtown on the Delaware to New Brunswick on the Raritan, through Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset and Middlesex counties.

Crown Point State Historic Site (New York)

Crown Point State Historic Site

Crown Point State Historic Site in Crown Point, Essex County, New York, preserves the ruins of the French Fort St. Frédéric and the British Crown Point fort on Lake Champlain.

Black Sandy State Park

Black Sandy State Park is one of the few public parks on Hauser Reservoir, northeast of Helena in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, and is popular for boating, fishing, camping and water skiing.

Mississinewa Lake

Mississinewa Lake is a public state park in Indiana in Wabash County. Spanning 3,180 acres and established in 1967, this park offers a peaceful…

Horseneck Beach State Reservation (Massachusetts)

Horseneck Beach State Reservation

Horseneck Beach State Reservation is a public state park in Massachusetts near Westport in Bristol County. Spanning 815 acres and established in…

Walden Pond State Reservation (Massachusetts)

Walden Pond State Reservation

Walden Pond State Reservation is a public state park in Massachusetts near Concord in Middlesex County. Spanning 335 acres and established in…

Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park (Tennessee)

Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park

Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park is a public state park in Tennessee in Madison County. Spanning 1,200 acres and established in 1981,…

McNee Ranch State Park (California)

McNee Ranch State Park

McNee Ranch State Park is a public state park in California. Spanning 690 acres and established in 1984, this park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Hop River State Park Trail (Connecticut)

Hop River State Park Trail

Hop River State Park Trail is a public state park in Connecticut, a rail trail that runs from Manchester in Hartford County east through Vernon, Bolton, Coventry, Andover and Columbia in Tolland County. Spanning 20.8 miles and established…

Castro Adobe State Historic Park (California)

Castro Adobe State Historic Park

Castro Adobe State Historic Park is a public state park in California near Watsonville in Santa Cruz County. Spanning 1 acres, the park offers a…

El Capitan State Beach (California)

El Capitan State Beach

El Capitan State Beach is a public state park in California in Santa Barbara County. Spanning 2,634 acres and established in 1953, this park…

Redden State Forest (Delaware)

Redden State Forest

Redden State Forest in Sussex County, Delaware, is operated by the Delaware Forest Service (Department of Agriculture), not by Delaware’s state park system. Its campground is booked through the Forest Service.

Malibu Lagoon State Beach (California)

Malibu Lagoon State Beach

Malibu Lagoon State Beach is a public state park in California near Malibu in Los Angeles County. Spanning 110 acres and established in 1951,…

Meshanticut State Park

Meshanticut State Park is a public state park in Rhode Island near Cranston in Providence County. Spanning 19.2 acres and established in 1910,…

Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park (New York)

Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park

Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is a public state park in New York near Town of Islip in Suffolk County. Spanning 690 acres and established…

Pistol River State Scenic Viewpoint (Oregon)

Pistol River State Scenic Viewpoint

Pistol River State Scenic Viewpoint is a public state park in Oregon in Curry County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for…

Weinberg-King State Fish and Wildlife Area

Weinberg-King State Fish and Wildlife Area is a public state park in Illinois in Schuyler County. Spanning 3.12 acres and established in 1968, this…

Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park (California)

Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park

Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park is a public state park in California in Kern County. Spanning 571 acres and established in 1993, this park offers…

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (Illinois)

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is a public state park in Illinois near Collinsville in Saint Clair County. Established in 1982, the park…

Wye Island Natural Resources Management Area

Wye Island NRMA in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, is run by the Maryland Park Service, not a state park: 2,450 of the island’s 2,800 acres, six miles of trails and paddling.

The Eleven Point River in the Missouri Ozarks

Eleven Point State Park

Eleven Point State Park is a 4,167-acre Missouri state park in Oregon County that has not yet opened to the public.

Matagorda Island State Park

Matagorda Island State Park is now Matagorda Island Wildlife Management Area, a boat-access barrier island off Port O’Connor, Texas, run by Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Nualolo Kai State Park

Nualolo Kai is an archaeological complex on the Nā Pali Coast of Kauai, Hawaii, inside Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park. Permitted boat tours land there.

Coast redwood trunks in Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, California

Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park

Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park is a public state park in California in Humboldt County. Spanning 430 acres and established in 1943, this park…

Butler Beach State Park (Florida)

Butler Beach State Park

Butler Beach is a county beach park south of St. Augustine Beach, run by St. Johns County as Frank Butler Park. It is not part of Florida’s state park system.

New Harmony State Historic Site (Indiana)

New Harmony State Historic Site

New Harmony State Historic Site is a public state park in Indiana. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of all ages.

South Carlsbad State Beach (California)

South Carlsbad State Beach

South Carlsbad State Beach is a public state park in California near Carlsbad in San Diego County. Spanning 44 acres and established in 1933,…

Helen McNitt State Park

Helen McNitt State Park is a public state park in New York. Spanning 134 acres and established in 1999, this park offers a peaceful retreat into nature…

Hudson River Islands State Park

Hudson River Islands State Park is a public state park in New York near Town of Stockport in Columbia County. Spanning 235 acres, the park…

View from the mouth of Mitchell Caverns over the Mojave Desert, California

Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve

Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve is part of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area in California, run by California State Parks. Hours, fees and access.

Simon B. Elliott State Park (Pennsylvania)

Simon B. Elliott State Park

Simon B. Elliott State Park is a public state park nine miles north of Clearfield in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The 318-acre park lies in the heart of Moshannon State Forest, off Pennsylvania Route 153 just north of Exit 111 of Interstate 80.

Laughing Whitefish Falls waterfall cascading into forested gorge in Michigan during autumn

Laughing Whitefish Falls Scenic Site

100-Foot Cascade in a Limestone Gorge — Fan-shaped slide falls, wooden staircase to the canyon floor, North Country Trail access, and pure Upper…

Abigail Adams State Park

Abigail Adams State Park is a public state park in Massachusetts near Weymouth in Norfolk County. The park offers visitors the chance to explore…

Rye Patch State Recreation Area (Nevada)

Rye Patch State Recreation Area

Rye Patch State Recreation Area is a public state park in Nevada in Pershing County. Spanning 2,400 acres and established in 1971, this park…

Crystal clear spring-fed pool at Balmorhea State Park Texas with desert mountains

Balmorhea State Park

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Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area (California)

Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area

Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area is a public state park in California in San Joaquin County. Spanning 5,075 acres and established in…

Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (New Jersey)

Brendan T. Byrne State Forest

Brendan T. Byrne State Forest is a state forest in New Jersey near Woodland Township in Burlington County, managed by the New Jersey State Park Service.

Face Rock sea stack off the beach at Face Rock State Scenic Viewpoint in Bandon, Oregon

Face Rock State Scenic Viewpoint

Face Rock State Scenic Viewpoint is a public state park in Oregon near Bandon in Coos County. Established in 1934, the park offers a peaceful…

Golden Beach Campground and Day Use Area

Golden Beach Campground and Day Use Area on Raquette Lake, NY, is a DEC campground, not a state park: wooded campsites and one of the largest natural beaches in the area.

Log buildings of the Civilian Conservation Corps complex on Flagg Mountain in Weogufka State Forest, Alabama

Weogufka State Forest

Weogufka State Forest covers 240 acres on Flagg Mountain in Coosa County, Alabama, run by the Alabama Forestry Commission, not a state park: CCC tower, Pinhoti Trail.

Lake Delta State Park (New York)

Delta Lake State Park

Delta Lake State Park on a wooded peninsula in Delta Reservoir near Rome, New York: sand beach (2026 season May 16–Sept 12), boat launch, 101 campsites, hiking and cross-country ski trails. $7 vehicle fee in season.

Beaverhead Rock Montana

Beaverhead Rock State Park

Beaverhead Rock State Park is a public state park in Montana in Madison County. Spanning 71 acres, the park offers visitors the chance to…

Millerton Lake State Recreation Area (California)

Millerton Lake State Recreation Area

Millerton Lake State Recreation Area is a public state park in California in Madera County. Spanning 4,900 acres and established in 1944, this…

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