State Parks

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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.

Manresa State Beach (California)

Manresa State Beach

Manresa State Beach is a public state park in California near Rio del Mar in Santa Cruz County. Spanning 138 acres and established in 1948, this…

Vermilion Falls Trail (Minnesota)

Vermilion Falls Trail

Vermilion Falls Trail is a public state park in Minnesota near Crane Lake Township in Saint Louis County. The park offers a peaceful retreat…

Tappan Lake State Park

Tappan Lake Park near Deersville in Harrison County, Ohio, is run by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD), not by Ohio State Parks.

Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor

Samuel H. Boardman Scenic Corridor is a public state park in Oregon. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of all ages.

Pine Log State Forest (Florida)

Pine Log State Forest

Pine Log State Forest is located in Florida in Bay County and is managed by the Florida Forest Service, not by Florida’s state park system.

Bonny Lake State Park (Colorado)

Bonny Lake State Park

Bonny Lake State Park is a public state park in Colorado. Established in 1966, Located in Colorado, the park is a cherished destination for outdoor…

Japanese garden with a pond and stone path at Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park, Vermont, in autumn

Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park

Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park is a public state park in Vermont near Hubbardton in Rutland County. Spanning 204 acres and established in…

Carmel River State Beach (California)

Carmel River State Beach

Carmel River State Beach is a public state park in California near Carmel Meadows in Monterey County. Spanning 297 acres and established in…

St. Marys River State Park (Maryland)

St. Mary’s River State Park

St. Marys River State Park is a public state park in Maryland in Saint Mary’s County. Spanning 2,643 acres and established in 1968, this park…

Kenneth L. Wilson Campground and Day Use Area

Kenneth L. Wilson Campground near Woodstock and Mt. Tremper, NY, is a DEC campground, not a state park: 76 wooded sites, paddling without motor boats and a dog park.

Delabar State Park

Delabar State Park is a public state park in Illinois in Henderson County. Spanning 0.36 acres and established in 1960, this park offers a…

Dugualla State Park

Dugualla State Park is a public state park in Washington in Island County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of all ages.

Glacial Drumlin State Trail (Wisconsin)

Glacial Drumlin State Trail

Glacial Drumlin State Trail is a public state park in Wisconsin near Waukesha in Waukesha County. Spanning 52 miles and established in 1986,…

Olmstead Place Historical State Park (Washington)

Olmstead Place Historical State Park

Olmstead Place Historical State Park preserves a 217-acre pioneer homestead in the Kittitas Valley near Ellensburg, Washington. Day use only, with historic farm buildings, an interpretive trail along Coleman Creek, and guided tours by arrangement.

Camp Wooten Retreat Center

Camp Wooten Retreat Center is a group retreat center in the Blue Mountains that Washington State Parks rents to groups. It is not a state park and sits on WDFW land.

Irondequoit Bay seen from Lucien Morin Park near Rochester, New York

Irondequoit Bay State Marine Park

Irondequoit Bay State Marine Park is a public state park in New York near Town of Irondequoit in Monroe County. Spanning 44 acres and established in…

Oceano Dunes SVRA (California)

Oceano Dunes SVRA

Oceano Dunes SVRA is a public state park in California in San Luis Obispo County. Spanning 4,800 acres, the park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Cline Falls State Scenic Viewpoint

Cline Falls State Scenic Viewpoint is a public state park in Oregon near Redmond in Deschutes County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Hiwassee Scenic River State Park

Hiwassee Scenic River State Park in Polk County, Tennessee, gives you access to the Hiwassee River, a Tennessee State Scenic River, with a visitor center and Gee Creek Campground near Delano.

China Cove Beach

China Cove Beach is a small city beach in Corona del Mar, run by the City of Newport Beach. It is not part of California’s state park system.

Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park

Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park is a public state park in Florida in Martin County. The park offers visitors the chance to bicycling, ride…

Pachaug State Forest (Connecticut)

Pachaug State Forest

Pachaug State Forest is a state forest in Connecticut near Voluntown in New London County, managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).

Lake Welch Beach – Harriman

Lake Welch Beach is part of Harriman State Park in Stony Point, New York, run by New York State Parks. Hours, fees and things to do.

Seven Tubs Recreation Area (Pennsylvania)

Seven Tubs Recreation Area

Seven Tubs Recreation Area is a public state park in Pennsylvania. Spanning 537 acres, the park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of…

Rendezvous Mountain State Forest (North Carolina)

Rendezvous Mountain State Forest

Rendezvous Mountain State Forest is a public state park in North Carolina in Wilkes County. Spanning 1,800 acres and established in 1926, this park…

Androscoggin Riverlands State Park

Androscoggin Riverlands State Park is a public state park in Maine near Turner in Androscoggin County. Spanning 2,674 acres, the park offers…

Big Fork State Forest

Big Fork State Forest covers 74,817 acres of forest, lakes and streams near Liberty in Itasca County, Minnesota. It is managed by the Minnesota DNR Division of Forestry, not by Minnesota’s state park system.

Lake Lowndes State Park

Lake Lowndes State Park surrounds a 150-acre lake east of Columbus, Mississippi, combining fishing and camping with an unusually large set of ball fields and courts.

Elwell State Park

Elwell State Park is a launch for paddlers and rowers on the Connecticut River at Damon Road in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and a parking point for the Norwottuck Rail Trail.

Mount Riga State Park (Connecticut)

Mount Riga State Park

Mount Riga State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Salisbury in Litchfield County. Spanning 276 acres and…

Mormon Island State Recreation Area (Nebraska)

Mormon Island State Recreation Area

Mormon Island State Recreation Area is a public state park in Nebraska in Hall County. Located in Nebraska, the park is a cherished destination…

John Yeon State Scenic Corridor

John Yeon State Scenic Corridor is a public state park in Oregon. Spanning 217 acres and established in 1935, this park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Collis P. Huntington State Park (Connecticut)

Collis P. Huntington State Park

Collis P. Huntington State Park is a public state park in Connecticut in Fairfield County. Spanning 878 acres and established in 1973, this park offers…

Big Elk Creek State Park

Big Elk Creek State Park lies along Big Elk Creek near Landenberg in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designated a state park in 2022.

Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area (South Carolina)

Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area

Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area in South Carolina includes Caesars Head and Jones Gap State Parks. Trails, camping permits and access.

Neskowin Beach State Recreation Site (Oregon)

Neskowin Beach State Recreation Site

Neskowin Beach State Recreation Site is a public state park in Oregon near Neskowin in Tillamook County. Established in 1968, the park offers a…

Sandstone formations along the trail at Pickle Springs Natural Area, Missouri

Pickle Springs Natural Area

Pickle Springs Natural Area is a Missouri Department of Conservation area near Farmington, not a state park: a 2-mile loop trail past sandstone arches, slot-like canyons and wet-weather waterfalls.

Crystal clear turquoise Flathead Lake with Mission Mountains at sunset Montana

Flathead Lake State Park

Montana’s Inland Sea — The largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, crystal-clear glacier-fed water, 6 distinct park units,…

Darlingtonia State Natural Site (Oregon)

Darlingtonia State Natural Site

Darlingtonia State Natural Site is a public state park in Oregon in Lane County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of…

Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site (Oregon)

Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site

Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site is a public state park in Oregon. Spanning 19 acres and established in 1955, this park offers a peaceful…

Taconic State Park – Copake Falls Area

Taconic State Park is a New York state park with two developed areas, Copake Falls and Rudd Pond; this page covers the Copake Falls Area at 253 Route 344 in Copake Falls, Columbia County.

Blue River SRA Nebraska

Blue River State Recreation Area

Blue River State Recreation Area is a small day-use area on the West Fork Big Blue River near Milford in Seward County, Nebraska, with walk-in access for bank fishing.

Sucia Island Marine State Park (Washington)

Sucia Island Marine State Park

Sucia Island Marine State Park is a public state park in Washington in San Juan County. Spanning 814 acres and established in 1952, this park…

Ross Pond State Park

Ross Pond State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Killingly in Windham County. Spanning 314 acres and…

Damon Point (Washington)

Damon Point

Damon Point near Ocean Shores, Washington, has no public access. The land belongs to the Washington Department of Natural Resources, and all public access has been closed since January 2025 because of erosion.

Sunset across Ocoee, TN overlooking the Hiwassee River

Chimneys State Natural Area

Chimneys State Natural Area is a 33-acre Tennessee state natural area near Whitwell in Marion County, with an overlook of Pocket Gorge. It is not a state park.

Wormsloe Historic Site (Georgia)

Wormsloe Historic Site

Wormsloe Historic Site is a public state park in Georgia near Isle of Hope in Chatham County. Spanning 822 acres and established in 1979, this…

Redwood National and State Parks

Redwood National and State Parks

Redwood National and State Parks is a public state park in California in Humboldt County. Spanning 138,999 acres and established in 1968, this…

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