State Parks

Find state parks by state, activity, and visitor needs

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.

Interstate State Park (Minnesota)

Interstate State Park

Interstate State Park is a public state park in Minnesota near Taylors Falls in Polk County. Spanning 1,330 acres and established in 1900, this park…

Henry W. Coe State Park (California)

Henry W. Coe State Park

Henry W. Coe State Park is a public state park in California near Morgan Hill in Santa Clara and Stanislaus County. Spanning 87,000 acres and…

Scenic Beach State Park (Washington)

Scenic Beach State Park

Scenic Beach State Park is a public state park in Washington near Seabeck in Kitsap County. Spanning 121 acres and established in 1975, this park…

Sugarite Canyon State Park (New Mexico)

Sugarite Canyon State Park

Sugarite Canyon State Park is a public state park in New Mexico near Raton in Colfax County. Spanning 3,600 acres and established in 1985, this park…

Russian Gulch State Park (California)

Russian Gulch State Park

Russian Gulch State Park is a public state park in California near Mendocino in Mendocino County. Spanning 1,162 acres and established in 1933, this…

Bogachiel State Park (Washington)

Bogachiel State Park

Bogachiel State Park is a public state park in Washington near Forks in Clallam County. Spanning 123 acres and established in 1931, this park offers a…

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park (Utah)

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is a public state park in Utah near Escalante in Garfield County. Spanning 1,350 acres and established in 1976,…

Sleeping Giant State Park (Connecticut)

Sleeping Giant State Park

Sleeping Giant State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near Hamden in New Haven County. Spanning 1,500 acres and established in 1924, this…

Lake Chicot State Park (Arkansas)

Lake Chicot State Park

Lake Chicot State Park is a public state park in Arkansas near Lake Village in Chicot County. Spanning 211 acres and established in 1957, this park…

Panther Creek State Park (Tennessee)

Panther Creek State Park

Panther Creek State Park is a public state park in Tennessee near Morristown in Hamblen County. Spanning 1,444 acres and established in 1967, this park…

Devil's Hopyard State Park (Connecticut)

Devil’s Hopyard State Park

Devil’s Hopyard State Park is a public state park in Connecticut near East Haddam in Middlesex County. Spanning 860 acres and established in 1919, this…

Canaan Valley Resort State Park (West Virginia)

Canaan Valley Resort State Park

West Virginia’s Premier Four-Season Resort — 26 ski trails, 18+ miles of hiking, championship golf, 6,014 acres of Allegheny wilderness

Grayson Lake and Grayson Dam in Carter County, Kentucky

Grayson Lake State Park

Grayson Lake State Park is a public state park in Kentucky near Olive Hill in Carter County. Spanning 1,512 acres and established in 1970, this…

Kopachuck State Park (Washington)

Kopachuck State Park

Kopachuck State Park is a public state park in Washington near Gig Harbor in Pierce County. Spanning 109 acres and established in 1955, this park…

Onondaga Cave State Park (Missouri)

Onondaga Cave State Park

Onondaga Cave State Park is a public state park in Missouri near Leasburg in Crawford County. Spanning 1,317.70 acres and established in 1981, this…

Mushroom Rock State Park (Kansas)

Mushroom Rock State Park

Mushroom Rock State Park is a public state park in Kansas near Marquette in Ellsworth County. Spanning 5 acres and established in 1965, this park…

Cliffs of the Neuse State Park North Carolina

Cliffs of the Neuse State Park

Cliffs of the Neuse State Park is a public state park in North Carolina near Seven Springs in Wayne County. Spanning 1,097 acres and established in…

ALTA LAKE STATE PARK

Alta Lake State Park

Alta Lake State Park is a public state park in Washington near Pateros in Okanogan County. Spanning 181 acres and established in 1951, this park offers…

Dos Rios State Park (California)

Dos Rios State Park

Dos Rios State Park is a California state park of about 1,600 acres at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers near Modesto, opened to the public on June 12, 2024.

Fort Niagara State Park (New York)

Fort Niagara State Park

Fort Niagara State Park is a public state park in New York near Youngstown in Niagara County. Spanning 504 acres and established in 1948, this park…

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park (California)

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is a public state park in California near Jamestown in Tuolumne County. Spanning 26 acres and established in 1949,…

Perrot State Park (Wisconsin)

Perrot State Park

Perrot State Park is a public state park in Wisconsin near Trempealeau in Trempealeau County. Spanning 1,270 acres and established in 1918, this park…

Pilgrim Memorial State Park (Massachusetts)

Pilgrim Memorial State Park

Pilgrim Memorial State Park is a public state park in Massachusetts near Plymouth in Plymouth County. Spanning 17 acres and established in 1920, this…

St. Francois State Park

St. Francois State Park is a public state park in Missouri near Bonne Terre in St. Francois County. Spanning 2,735 acres and established in 1964, this…

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park (Missouri)

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a public state park in Missouri near Ironton in Iron, Reynolds County. Spanning 8,395 acres and established in 1991,…

Great Salt Plains State Park (Oklahoma)

Great Salt Plains State Park

Great Salt Plains State Park is a public state park in Oklahoma near Jet in Alfalfa County. Spanning 840 acres and established in 1958, this park…

Maryhill State Park (Washington)

Maryhill State Park

Maryhill State Park is a public state park in Washington near Goldendale in Klickitat County. Spanning 81 acres and established in 1972, this park…

Lake Wateree State Park

Lake Wateree State Park is a public state park in South Carolina near Winnsboro. Spanning 238 acres and established in 1982, this park offers a…

Belmont Lake State Park (New York)

Belmont Lake State Park

Belmont Lake State Park is a public state park in New York near Babylon in Suffolk County. Spanning 463 acres and established in 1926, this park offers…

Chattahoochee Bend State Park Georgia

Chattahoochee Bend State Park

Chattahoochee Bend State Park is a public state park in Georgia near Newnan in Coweta County. Spanning 2,910 acres and established in 2011, this park…

Historic 19th-century buildings at Fayette Historic State Park

Fayette Historic State Park

Michigan’s Best-Preserved Ghost Town — 20+ original 1800s buildings, towering stone smelting furnaces, turquoise Snail Shell Harbor, and…

Cimarron Canyon State Park New Mexico

Cimarron Canyon State Park

Cimarron Canyon State Park is a public state park in New Mexico near Eagle Nest in Colfax County. Spanning 378 acres and established in 1979, this park…

North Point State Park (Maryland)

North Point State Park

North Point State Park is a public state park near Edgemere in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Twin Harbors State Park (Washington)

Twin Harbors State Park

Twin Harbors State Park is a public state park in Washington near Westport in Grays Harbor County. Spanning 225 acres and established in 1937, this…

Brunet Island State Park (Wisconsin)

Brunet Island State Park

Brunet Island State Park is a public state park in Wisconsin near Cornell in Chippewa County. Spanning 1,225 acres and established in 1936, this park…

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park (Florida)

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

Key West’s Best Beach & Civil War Fort
Fort Zachary Taylor has Key West’s best public beach plus a well-preserved Civil War fort with massive…

Rock Creek State Park (Iowa)

Rock Creek State Park

Iowa’s Hidden Marina Lake
Rock Creek offers a full-service marina, beaches, and excellent fishing on 665-acre lake. Central Iowa’s recreation destination!

Lake Manawa State Park

Located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, just minutes from the bustling Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area, Lake Manawa State Park is an

Greeter Falls in Savage Gulf State Park (Tennessee)

Savage Gulf State Park

Savage Gulf State Park covers 18,708 acres on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, with about 56 miles of trails, the Great Stone Door, Greeter Falls and 71 reservable campsites.

Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park

World Record Smallmouth Bass Lake
Dale Hollow produced the world record smallmouth bass (11 lbs 15 oz!)—crystal-clear water, full resort lodge, and…

Riverside State Park (Washington)

Riverside State Park

Spokane’s Urban Wilderness
Riverside is Washington’s second-largest state park at 14,000 acres—right at Spokane’s doorstep! Bowl and Pitcher rock…

Lake Barkley State Resort Park (Kentucky)

Lake Barkley State Resort Park

Kentucky’s Lakeside Resort
Lake Barkley is a full-service state resort—lodge, golf course, marina, and 3,700 acres on the Land Between the Lakes region!

Camp Hero State Park (New York)

Camp Hero State Park

Montauk’s Secret Military Base
Camp Hero is a former WWII military base at the very tip of Long Island—surf fishing, hiking, and the mysterious…

Elk Neck State Park (Maryland)

Elk Neck State Park

Chesapeake Bay Peninsula
Elk Neck sits on a peninsula between two rivers flowing into Chesapeake Bay—Turkey Point Lighthouse, sandy beaches, and…

Valley of the Rogue State Park (Oregon)

Valley of the Rogue State Park

I-5 Oasis on the Rogue
Valley of the Rogue offers convenient camping right off I-5 with Rogue River access—fish for steelhead, watch eagles, and rest…

Thousand Springs State Park (Idaho)

Thousand Springs State Park

Snake River’s Spring-Fed Cascades
Thousand Springs features spectacular springs bursting from canyon walls—water from the Lost River emerges 100+…

Whitefish Dunes State Park (Wisconsin)

Whitefish Dunes State Park

Door County’s Tallest Dunes
Whitefish Dunes protects the tallest sand dunes in Wisconsin on the Lake Michigan shore—pristine beach, Old Baldy dune,…

Point Mugu State Park (California)

Point Mugu State Park

SoCal’s Santa Monica Mountains Coast
Point Mugu offers 15,000 acres of Santa Monica Mountains wilderness reaching the Pacific—beaches, canyons, and…

Palmetto Island State Park (Louisiana)

Palmetto Island State Park

Cajun Country Swamp Camping
Palmetto Island offers camping in authentic Louisiana swampland—Spanish moss, alligators, and Cajun culture near Abbeville!

Scroll to Top