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.

Makapuu Point Lighthouse Trail (Hawaii)

Makapuu Point Lighthouse Trail

Makapuu Point Lighthouse Trail is a public state park in Hawaii near Waimanalo. Spanning 38 acres and established in 1909, this park offers a peaceful…

Sam Rayburn Reservoir (Texas)

Sam Rayburn Reservoir

Sam Rayburn Reservoir is a federal recreation site in Texas near Brookeland, managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is not a state park.

Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site (Oregon)

Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site

Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site is a public state park in Oregon near Newport. Spanning 32 acres and established in 1871, this park offers a peaceful…

Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity NRA

Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area is a federal recreation area: the National Park Service runs the Whiskeytown unit, the USDA Forest Service the Shasta and Trinity units.

Matapeake State Park (Maryland)

Matapeake State Park

Matapeake State Park is a local park in Maryland near Stevensville, run by Queen Anne’s County. It is not part of Maryland’s state park system.

Greenwell State Park (Maryland)

Greenwell State Park

Greenwell State Park is a public state park in Maryland near Hollywood in St. Mary’s County. Spanning 596 acres and established in 1971, this park…

Camels Hump State Park (Vermont)

Camel’s Hump State Park

Rising to 4,083 feet with its unmistakable twin-humped summit, Camel’s Hump is Vermont’s most iconic mountain — and the state’s highest undeveloped…

Day Pond State Park

Day Pond State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Colchester in New London County. Spanning 180 acres and established in 1949, this park…

Gardner Lake State Park (Connecticut)

Gardner Lake State Park

Gardner Lake State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Salem in New London County. Spanning 10 acres and established in 2001, this park…

Milan Hill State Park

Milan Hill State Park is a public state park in New Hampshire near Milan in Coös County. Spanning 102 acres and established in 1939, this park offers…

Heritage Hill State Historical Park (Wisconsin)

Heritage Hill State Historical Park

Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a 56-acre open-air museum operated by the Heritage Hill Corporation, with historic structures from the 1762 fur trade to 1905 ethnic farms.

Joseph H. Stewart State Recreation Area (Oregon)

Joseph H. Stewart State Recreation Area

Joseph H. Stewart State Recreation Area is a lakeside campground and day-use park on Lost Creek Lake near Trail, Oregon. It has been run by Jackson County Parks since April 2021, no longer by Oregon State Parks.

Squak Mountain State Park Natural Area (Washington)

Squak Mountain State Park Natural Area

Squak Mountain State Park Natural Area is a public state park in Washington near Issaquah in King County. Spanning 1,570 acres and established in 1972,…

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Mound Key Archaeological State Park is a public state park in Florida near Estero in Lee County. Spanning 113 acres and established in 1970, this park…

Arrow Rock State Historic Site (Missouri)

Arrow Rock State Historic Site

Arrow Rock State Historic Site is a public state park in Missouri near Arrow Rock in Saline County. Spanning 167.39 acres and established in 1923, this…

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park is a public state park in New Mexico near Carlsbad in Eddy County. Spanning 1,500 acres and established in…

Rocks in the surf and fog along the coast at Seal Rock State Recreation Site, Oregon

Seal Rock State Recreation Site

Seal Rock State Recreation Site is a public state park in Oregon near Seal Rock. Established in 1929, the park offers a peaceful retreat into nature…

James Pate Philip State Park

James Pate Philip State Park is a public state park in Illinois near Bartlett in DuPage, Kane County. Spanning 3,432 acres and established in 1991,…

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park (Washington)

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park is a public state park in Washington near Vantage in Kittitas County. Spanning 7,124 acres and established in 1931,…

Wildwood Canyon State Park

Wildwood Canyon State Park is a public state park in California near Yucaipa in San Bernardino County. Spanning 856 acres, the park offers a peaceful…

Louisiana Purchase State Park (Arkansas)

Louisiana Purchase State Park

Louisiana Purchase State Park is a public state park in Arkansas near Holly Grove in Lee, Monroe, Phillips County. Spanning 37.5 acres and established…

Van Meter State Park (Missouri)

Annie and Abel Van Meter State Park

Van Meter State Park is a public state park in Missouri near Miami in Saline County. Spanning 1,105 acres and established in 1932, this park offers a…

Amherst State Park (New York)

Amherst State Park

Amherst State Park is a public state park in New York near Williamsville in Erie County. Spanning 77 acres and established in 2000, this park offers a…

Mount Tom State Reservation (Massachusetts)

Mount Tom State Reservation

Mount Tom State Reservation is a public state park in Massachusetts near Holyoke in Hampden County. Spanning 1,967 acres and established in 1902, this…

Penwood State Park (Connecticut)

Penwood State Park

Penwood State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Bloomfield in Hartford County. Spanning 787 acres and established in 1944, this park…

Lake Shaftsbury State Park (Vermont)

Lake Shaftsbury State Park

Lake Shaftsbury State Park is a public state park in Vermont near Shaftsbury. Spanning 84 acres and established in 1974, this park offers a peaceful…

Singletary Lake State Park (North Carolina)

Singletary Lake State Park

Singletary Lake State Park is a public state park in North Carolina near Kelly in Bladen County. Spanning 1,221 acres and established in 1939, this…

Fort Defiance State Park (Illinois)

Fort Defiance State Park

Fort Defiance State Park sits on Cairo Point in Alexander County, the southernmost tip of Illinois, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi. It is a day-use site near Cairo.

Raymond B. Winter State Park (Pennsylvania)

Raymond B. Winter State Park

Raymond B. Winter State Park is a public state park in Pennsylvania near Mifflinburg. Established in 1933, the park offers a peaceful retreat into…

Leadbetter Point State Park (Washington)

Leadbetter Point State Park

Leadbetter Point State Park is a public state park in Washington near Long Beach in Pacific County. Spanning 1,732 acres and established in 1964, this…

Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park (California)

Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park

Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a public state park in California near Nevada City in Nevada County. Spanning 3,143 acres and established in…

Monmouth Battlefield State Park (New Jersey)

Monmouth Battlefield State Park

Monmouth Battlefield State Park is a public state park in New Jersey near Freehold in Monmouth County. Spanning 1,818 acres and established in 1978,…

Beall Woods State Park Illinois

Beall Woods State Park

Beall Woods State Park is a public state park in Illinois near Mount Carmel in Wabash County. Spanning 2.57 acres and established in 1966, this park…

Bobby Brown State Park

Bobby Brown State Park is a local park in Georgia near Elberton, run by Elbert County since 2015. It is not part of Georgia’s state park system.

Seven Islands State Birding Park (Tennessee)

Seven Islands State Birding Park

Seven Islands State Birding Park is a public state park in Tennessee near Kodak in Knox County. Spanning 425 acres and established in 2014, this park…

Shasta State Historic Park (California)

Shasta State Historic Park

Shasta State Historic Park is a public state park in California near Old Shasta in Shasta County. Spanning 25 acres and established in 1932, this park…

Sumner Lake State Park (New Mexico)

Sumner Lake State Park

Sumner Lake State Park is a public state park in New Mexico near Fort Sumner in De Baca County. Spanning 6,700 acres and established in 1966, this park…

Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area (Illinois)

Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area

Ramsey Lake State Recreation Area is a public state park in Illinois near Ramsey in Fayette County. Spanning 1,980 acres and established in 1947, this…

Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park (Hawaii)

Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park

Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park is a public state park in Hawaii near Captain Cook. Spanning 180 acres and established in 1967, this park offers a…

Lydgate Beach Park (Hawaii)

Lydgate Beach Park

Lydgate Beach Park is a local park in Hawaii near Kapaa, run by the County of Kauaʻi Department of Parks and Recreation. It is not part of Hawaii’s state park system.

Burnham Point State Park

Burnham Point State Park is a public state park in New York near Cape Vincent in Jefferson County. Spanning 12 acres and established in 1898, this park…

Clouds reflected in Spectacle Pond at Brighton State Park, Vermont

Brighton State Park

Brighton State Park is a public state park near Island Pond in Essex County, Vermont.

Forest Lake State Park (New Hampshire)

Forest Lake State Park

Forest Lake State Park is a public state park in New Hampshire near Dalton in Coös County. Spanning 397 acres and established in 1935, this park…

Palouse hills and forest seen from Skyline Drive in McCroskey State Park, Idaho

McCroskey State Park

McCroskey State Park is a public state park in Idaho near Moscow in Benewah, Latah County. Spanning 5,300 acres and established in 1955, this park…

Goldendale Observatory State Park (Washington)

Goldendale Observatory State Park

Goldendale Observatory State Park is a public state park in Washington near Goldendale in Klickitat County. Spanning 5 acres and established in 1973,…

alfred a. loeb state park oregon

Alfred A. Loeb State Park

Alfred A. Loeb State Park is a public state park in Oregon near Brookings. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of all ages.

Fishermen's Memorial State Park (Rhode Island)

Fishermen’s Memorial State Park

Fishermen’s Memorial State Park is a public state park in Rhode Island near Narragansett in Washington County. Spanning 91 acres and established in…

Collier Memorial State Park (Oregon)

Collier Memorial State Park

Collier Memorial State Park is a public state park in Oregon near Chiloquin. The park offers a peaceful retreat into nature for visitors of all ages.

Joseph Davis State Park (New York)

Joseph Davis State Park

Nestled along the scenic banks of the lower Niagara River in Lewiston, New York,
Joseph Davis State Park is a 388-acre recreational haven…

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