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Located primarily on Maine's Mount Desert Island with its 17 historic carriage road bridges spanning streams, waterfalls, cliffs, and roads, Acadia is home to granite peaks, the rugged Maine coastline, and the bayside town of Bar Harbor.
Located north of Moab, Utah, and most famously known for Delicate Arch, Arches National Park's hiking trails wind circuitously around and through its over 2000 red sandstone arches.
Alaska - Vast and beautiful, this land is one of the most remote places in North America stretching across a 19 million acre expanse of land crossing limitless arctic tundra, majestic mountains of the Brooks Range and boreal forest. This wild and...
Located 50 miles east of Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills, Badlands National Park consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.
At more than 800,000 acres on the "big bend" in the Rio Grande River in southwest Texas, this park contains over 100 miles of lush floodplain, the Chihuahuan Desert, and the Chisos Mountain Range. Situated right on the Mexican border, work and liv...
Located in southern Utah, Bryce Canyon is known for its spires, pinnacles, fins, and mazes - whimsical colorful natural formations in horseshoe shaped amphitheaters.
In southeastern Utah, Canyonlands has countless canyons, mesas and buttes eroded into the landscape by the Colorado River and its tributaries. The rivers divide the park into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and The Ri...
Towering monoliths, layers of colorful sandstone, dazzling canyons, and mystifying rock formations - explore the wonders of the Waterpocket Fold and Southern Utah by spending a season in Capitol Reef National Park!
Located in the Cascade Mountain range in southern Oregon, Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States, is known for its intense blue waters and spectacular views.
Cumberland Island is Georgia's largest and southernmost barrier island. Here you can experience pristine maritime forests, undeveloped beaches and wide marshes. This National Seashore is also home to over 9,800 acres of Congressionally designated ...
More than 3.3 million acres of desert scenery, wildlife, undisturbed wilderness and history. Home to the lowest point in the western hemisphere, Badwater at 282 feet below sea level, and bounded to the west by 11,049 foot Telescope Peak.
Glaciers, grizzlies, wolves and North America's highest peak at 20,320 feet -- Denali National Park encompasses more than 6 million acres of complete sub-arctic ecosystem. If you want to go big, go to Denali. "Denali will rock your world and leave...
Everglades spans across 1.5 million acres that stretches over the southern part of Florida. With a vast diversity of flora and fauna in different eco-systems: freshwater sloughs, marl prairies, tropical hammocks, pineland, cypress, mangrove, coast...
Glaciated valleys, rugged mountains, boreal forest and arctic tundra cut by wild rivers. Home to Dall sheep, wolf and bear. This place is OUT THERE - it is wild and undeveloped and contains six Wild Rivers and two National Natural Landmarks.
Part of a greater 25 million acre World Heritage Site, Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska experiences a temperate rain forest climate while being surrounded by jagged peaks and ever-shifting glaciers. Come find inspiration along Alaska’...
The Backbone of the World and the Crown of the Continent, Glacier National Park quickly earns the adoration of all who wander into its boundaries. The park is home to some of the most pristine alpine wilderness on the planet and, with over 700 mil...
Glen Canyon National Recreation area encompasses over 1.25 million acres of the country’s most stunning desert scenery. Home to Lake Powell, Horseshoe Bend, and Rainbow Bridge National Monument, this protected area spans hundreds of miles from Lee...
Painted and sculpted over the course of 40 million years, Grand Canyon National Park presents one of the most overwhelming visualizations of history and geology available on our planet. With a job in the Big Ditch, you can spend a season exploring...
Currently the largest National Monument in the United States comprising 1.9 million acres with varied terrain: red rock spires and arches, slot canyons, riparian areas including the Escalante River, and hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trail...
Located in the remote northwest corners of Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park comprises a portion of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a biodiverse area often dubbed America’s Serengeti. Marked by staggering alpine terrain and extraordinary wildl...
Straddling the border between North Carolina and Tennessee with ridge upon ridge of forest, this National Park is world renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of So...
A remote island cluster in Lake Superior, near Michigan’s border with Canada, and accessible only by boat or plane, Isle Royale is home to wolves and moose, a cool climate and clear waters. The park hosts 165 miles of hiking trails, 36 campgrounds...
Journey to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes! Located adjacent to Kodiak Island on the Alaska Peninsula, Katmai National Park and Preserve is truly a land of fire and ice. Within the four million acres of wilderness, six active volcanoes stir unde...
Kenai Fjords National Park is a land of steep, glacier carved valleys filled with ocean waters, towering peaks, rugged coast, sprawling icefields, seals, whales, otters, and bears. Bring your boots, boats, and job skills and grab a job on the Kena...
Come spend a season in one of the last true frontiers. Situated at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve encompasses over 4,000,000 acres of steaming volcanoes, crystalline lakes, jagged mountains, and critical s...
Lassen Volcanic National Park rests at the southern end of the Cascade Mountains in northeastern California. Covering 100,000 acres of alpine splendor and volcanic wonders, this park's remote location, smaller crowds, and endless outdoor recreatio...
Located in the southwest corner of Colorado, Mesa Verde is known for its well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings.Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the m...
Breathtaking mountains rise like skyscrapers out of the canal of this 2.1 million acre wilderness wonderland. Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness is part of the largest, intact coastal rainforest in the United States. In the heart of this wi...
The most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States, boasting the greatest topographical prominence, and deserving of a place on the Decade Volcano List: Mount Rainier and its surrounding wilderness are many things, and ordinary is not one of ...
The Black Hills National Forest, in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming, is 1.2 million ponderosa pine-studded acres ranging in elevation as high as 7,242 feet. Amid the splendid scenery are 11 reservoirs, 30 campgrounds, 26 picnic ...
This 110,000 acre National Volcanic Monument, established in 1982, was set aside for research, recreation, and education. Since then, many trails, viewpoints, information stations, campgrounds, and picnic areas have been established to accommodate...
Head home to West Virginia! The New River Gorge is host to some of the best whitewater rafting, climbing, hiking and biking on the entire East Coast. Discover your next adventure in the Appalachian Mountains!
North Cascades National Park entices wilderness seekers from all over the world. The park is home to over 300 glaciers (one-third of all glaciers in the lower 48 states) and some of the steepest mountain ranges in the country, with its rugged peak...
You'll have your hands full with nearly a million acres of glacier-capped mountains, old-growth temperate rain forests, and over 70 miles of wild coastline to explore. Cap off your adventure filled days with a hot spring soak. You're living a dream!
The backbone of Rocky Mountain includes some of the highest mountains in the continental United States. With more than 360 miles of trails, a road that climbs to 12,183 feet and the summit of Longs Peak at 14,259, you'd better hit the treadmill to...
Formed when pressure within the earth's crust fractured the eastern granite block of California and tilted westward in a series of uplifts to create the Sierra Nevada, California's "backbone", is today one of the world's longest continuous mountai...
Shenandoah covers 300 square miles of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southern Appalachians. Bursting with scenery, wildlife, history, and recreation, the Shenandoah River flows through the valley to the west. More than 500 miles of trail crisscro...
Located in western North Dakota where the Great Plains meet the rugged Badlands this National Park is a habitat for bison, elk and prairie dogs. From Badlands to the Painted Canyon, to wide swaths of open grasslands this is a park of peace and qui...
Named from the Tongass Clan of the Tlingit Indians who inhabited the southernmost areas of the Alaska panhandle near what is now Ketchikan. At 17 million acres, Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States, the large...
Discover the Great North and perfect your freestyle canoeing! Scramble around on rocks that are half as old as the world, walk amongst a boreal forest and explore the interconnected water routes of the Minnesota-Canadian border.
Jobs in Alaska near the "mountain kingdom of North America". Wrangell-St Elias is the largest unit in the National Park System and hosts the largest collection of glaciers and peaks above 16,000 feet on the continent. Home to18,008 foot Mount St E...
Yellowstone is the World's First National Park ~ and what a treasure it is! CoolWorks® wouldn't exist without Yellowstone, so it holds a special place in our hearts. Geysers and hot pots, rich history, bears and bison, mountains and canyons all aw...
So special is Yosemite that its first protections were implemented by President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War. Encompassing nearly 1,200 square miles of pure magic, you'll find a vast wilderness area with deep valleys, grand meadow...
Two hundred twenty-nine square miles of sandstone cliffs, lush hanging gardens, waterfalls, winding canyons and pine and juniper blanketed slopes. You'll pinch yourself if you're lucky enough to spend any amount of time in this magical treasure of...
If you’re not quite sure which Park to plan your next adventure in, or you’re wanting to get your foot in the door with a company that operates in Multiple Parks with the possibility of transferring to a new Park from one season to the next, this ...
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