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.

Ukiah-Dale Forest State Scenic Corridor

Ukiah-Dale Forest State Scenic Corridor is a public state park in Oregon. Established in 1944, the park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for…

Rockwood Hall State Park Preserve

Rockwood Hall State Park Preserve is a public state park in New York near Town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County. Spanning 88 acres and…

Fort Knox State Historic Site (Maine)

Fort Knox State Historic Site

Fort Knox State Historic Site is a public state park in Maine near Prospect in Waldo County. Spanning 124 acres and established in 2007, this…

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park (California)

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park is a public state park in California near Folsom in Sacramento County. Spanning 35 acres, the park offers…

Casselman River Bridge State Park (Maryland)

Casselman River Bridge State Park

Casselman River Bridge State Park is a public state park in Maryland in Garrett County. Spanning 4 acres and established in 1957, this park offers a…

Topsmead State Forest (Connecticut)

Topsmead State Forest

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

Restored 1860s buildings at Fort Sisseton State Historic Park, South Dakota

Fort Sisseton Historic State Park

Fort Sisseton State Historic Park is a public state park in South Dakota in Marshall County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for…

Brule River State Forest

Brule River State Forest is a state forest in Wisconsin near Town of Cloverland in Douglas County, managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve (Florida)

Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve

Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve is a public state park in Florida near Cedar Key in Levy County. Spanning 5,028 acres and established in 1978,…

McLaughlin Eastshore State Park (California)

McLaughlin Eastshore State Park

McLaughlin Eastshore State Park runs 8.5 miles along the East Bay shoreline. It is a California state park managed by the East Bay Regional Park District since 1997.

Fiery Gizzard Trail (Tennessee)

Fiery Gizzard Trail

The Fiery Gizzard Trail runs 12.8 miles one way through Fiery Gizzard State Park near Tracy City, Tennessee, past waterfalls, overlooks and the Sycamore Falls swimming hole.

Mohawk Trail State Forest (Massachusetts)

Mohawk Trail State Forest

Mohawk Trail State Forest is a state forest in Massachusetts near Charlemont in Franklin County, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

Plum Island State Reservation (Massachusetts)

Plum Island State Reservation

Plum Island State Reservation is a public state park in Massachusetts near Newbury in Essex County. Spanning 77 acres, the park offers a…

Moses H. Cone Memorial Park (North Carolina)

Moses H. Cone Memorial Park

Moses H. Cone Memorial Park is a public state park in North Carolina near Blowing Rock in Watauga County. Spanning 3,496 acres and established…

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park is a 7,000-acre wilderness park in Laguna Canyon, run by OC Parks (County of Orange) since it opened on April 10, 1993. It is not part of California’s state park system.

Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory

Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory is a public state park in Washington near Rosario Beach in Skagit County. The park offers a peaceful retreat…

Bedell Bridge State Historic Park New Hampshire feature

Bedell Bridge State Historic Site

Bedell Bridge State Park is a public state park in New Hampshire near Haverhill in Grafton County. Spanning 38 acres and established in 1970,…

Hamilton Pool Preserve (Texas)

Hamilton Pool Preserve

Hamilton Pool Preserve is a local park in Texas near Dripping Springs, run by Travis County. It is not part of Texas’s state park system.

Pembina River Gorge seen from the Lookout Point overlook, North Dakota

Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area

Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area is a public state park in North Dakota in Cavalier County. Spanning 1,236 acres and established in 2012, this park…

Oso Flaco Lake and the dunes beyond it on the central California coast

Oso Flaco Lake State Park

Oso Flaco Lake is not a separate state park: it is the non-motorized day-use area of Oceano Dunes SVRA, with a one-mile boardwalk across the lake to the beach.

Cataract Falls State Recreation Area (Indiana)

Cataract Falls State Recreation Area

Cataract Falls State Recreation Area is a public state park in Indiana near Cataract in Owen County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Leominster State Forest (Massachusetts)

Leominster State Forest

Leominster State Forest is a state forest in Massachusetts near Westminster in Worcester County, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

Beaver Brook State Park Windham Chaplin Connecticut

Beaver Brook State Park

Beaver Brook State Park is a state park scenic reserve of the Connecticut DEEP in the town of Windham, Windham County, Connecticut.

Pleasant Harbor State Park

Pleasant Harbor State Park is a public state park in Washington in Jefferson County. Spanning 1 acre and established in 1955, this park offers a…

Asilomar State Beach (California)

Asilomar State Beach

Asilomar State Beach is a public state park in California near Pacific Grove in Monterey County. Spanning 107 acres and established in 1951,…

Niagara Gorge Trail (New York)

Niagara Gorge Trail

Niagara Gorge Trail is a public state park in New York near City of Niagara Falls in Niagara County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Fort Griffin State Historic Site (Texas)

Fort Griffin State Historic Site

Fort Griffin State Historic Site is a public state park in Texas near Fort Griffin in Shackelford County. Established in 1867, the park offers a…

Elm Brook Park

Elm Brook Park is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers day-use park at Hopkinton-Everett Lake in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. It is not a New Hampshire state park.

Wildlife Prairie Park (Illinois)

Wildlife Prairie Park

Wildlife Prairie Park is a public state park in Illinois near Hanna City in Peoria County. Spanning 6.9 acres and established in 2000, this park…

Prairie Spirit Trail State Park

Prairie Spirit Trail State Park is a public state park in Kansas near Princeton in Franklin County. Established in 1996, the park offers a…

Rockbridge State Nature Preserve (Ohio)

Rockbridge State Nature Preserve

Rockbridge State Nature Preserve in Hocking County protects Ohio’s largest natural bridge, a sandstone arch reached on 2.8 miles of trails.

Griffiths-Priday Ocean State Park (Washington)

Griffiths-Priday Ocean State Park

Griffiths-Priday Ocean State Park is a public state park in Washington in Grays Harbor County. Spanning 364 acres, the park offers a peaceful retreat…

Wahiawa Freshwater State Recreation Area

Wahiawa Freshwater State Recreation Area is a public state park in Hawaii. Spanning 66 acres, the park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for…

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park, formerly Toltec Mounds, near Scott, Arkansas, protects 18 earthen mounds of the Plum Bayou culture. A National Historic Landmark.

Poe Springs State Park (Florida)

Poe Springs State Park

Poe Springs Park is an Alachua County park on the Santa Fe River near High Springs, Florida, not a state park. The water area is closed until further notice (October 2026).

Jay Nixon State Park (Missouri)

Jay Nixon State Park

Jay Nixon State Park is a public state park in Missouri in Reynolds County. Spanning 1,231 acres and established in 2017, this park offers a peaceful…

North Hampton State Beach (New Hampshire)

North Hampton State Beach

North Hampton State Beach is a public state park in New Hampshire near North Hampton in Rockingham County. Spanning 1.1 acres and established in…

Jones Island State Park (Washington)

Jones Island State Park

Jones Island State Park is a public state park in Washington in San Juan County. Spanning 188 acres and established in 1982, this park offers a…

Grand Gulf Military Park (Mississippi)

Grand Gulf Military Park

Grand Gulf Military Park in Claiborne County, Mississippi, is operated by the Grand Gulf Military Monument Commission, not by Mississippi’s state park system.

Merrimack River State Forest

Merrimack River State Forest is a state forest along the Merrimack River in Boscawen, New Hampshire. It is not a state park.

St. Bernard State Park

Saint Bernard State Park is a public state park in Louisiana near Poydras in Saint Bernard Parish County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Aerial view of Port Austin and its harbor on Lake Huron, Michigan

Port Austin State Harbor

Port Austin State Harbor is a public state park in Michigan near Port Austin in Huron County. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for…

Boardwalk through Ebenezer Swamp Ecological Preserve in Shelby County, Alabama

Ebenezer Swamp Ecological Preserve

Ebenezer Swamp Ecological Preserve near Montevallo, Alabama, is operated by the University of Montevallo, not by Alabama’s state park system. The university maintains the boardwalk and trails for teaching and public access.

Lake Greeson State Park (Arkansas)

Lake Greeson State Park

Lake Greeson is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake in Pike County, Arkansas, not a state park. The Corps runs the campgrounds and boat ramps around the lake.

Bandon State Natural Area (Oregon)

Bandon State Natural Area

Bandon State Natural Area is a public state park in Oregon. Established in 1954, the park offers visitors the chance to spot rare and migratory birds,…

Fay Bainbridge Park (Washington)

Fay Bainbridge Park

Fay Bainbridge Park is located in Washington near Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County and is managed by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District, not by Washington’s state park system.

Burnside Island State Park (Kentucky)

General Burnside Island State Park

General Burnside Island State Park is a public state park in Kentucky near Burnside in Pulaski County. Spanning 430 acres and established in…

Lake George Beach Day Use Area

Lake George Beach Day Use Area, known as Million Dollar Beach, is a DEC swimming beach on the south shore of Lake George, not a state park. Season, fees and rules.

Sand Ridge State Forest (Illinois)

Sand Ridge State Forest

Sand Ridge State Forest is a state forest in Illinois near Forest City in Mason County, managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR).

Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway

Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway is a 20-mile National Forest Scenic Byway through the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, managed by the USDA Forest Service. It is not a state park; the nearby Spearfish Canyon Nature Area is run by South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks.

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