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Yellowstone Hot Springs (Wyoming and Montana)

Yosemite Valley (California)

Bryce Canyon (Utah) Everglades (Florida) Delani National Park

(Alaska) Death Valley (California)

Great Sand Dunes (Colorado)

Mammoth Cave (Kentucky)

Kilauea volcano (Hawai) Niagara Falls (New York

in USA and Ontario in Canada)

Hot Springs Yellowstone

It's a wonderland. Old Faithful and the majority of the world's geysers are preserved here. They are the main reason the park was established in 1872 as America's first national park—an idea that spread worldwide. A mountain wildland, home to grizzly bears, wolves, and herds of bison and elk, the park is the core of one of the last, nearly intact, natural ecosystems in the Earth’s temperate zone.

Hot springs with names like Morning Glory, Grand Prismatic, Abyss, Emerald, and Sapphire, glisten like jewels in a host of colors across the park's harsh volcanic plain. They are the most common hydrothermal features in the park.

Yosemite Valley

Not just a great valley, but a shrine to human foresight, the strength of granite, the power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra.

First protected in 1864, Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.

Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon National Park  is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park

is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos,

formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange, and white colors of

the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce sits at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park. 

Everglades

Everglades National Park is a U.S. National Park in Florida that protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades. In the United States, it is the largest subtropical wilderness, the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River, and is visited on average by one million people each year. It is the third-largest

national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley and Yellowstone. It has been declared an International Biosphere

Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, one of only three locations in the world to appear on

all three lists.

Delani National Park

Denali's landscape is a mix of forest at the lowest elevations, including

deciduous taiga. The preserve is also home to tundra at middle elevations, and glaciers, rock,

and snow at the highest elevations. The longest glacier is the Kahiltna Glacier. Today, 400,000 people visit the park annually. They view wildlife, climb

mountains, and backpack. Wintertime activities includes dog-sledding, cross-

country skiing, and snowmachining.

O Denali National Park and Preserve is a national park and preserve located in

Interior Alaska, centered on Denali, the highest mountain in North America. The

park encompasses more than 24,500 km². The national preserve is 5,430 km², of which 5,278 km² are federally owned.

On December 2, 1980, a 8,687 km². Denali Wilderness was established

within the park.

Death Valley

Death Valley National Park is a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada located east of the Sierra Nevada, occupying an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts in the United States. The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains. It is the largest national park in the lower 48 states and has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve. Approximately 95% of the park is a designated wilderness area. It is the hottest and driest of the national parks in the United States. The second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere is in Badwater Basin, which is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment. Some examples include creosote bush, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the Death Valley pupfish, a survivor of much wetter times.

Great Sand Dunes

The dunes sprawl across part of southern Colorado's San Luis Valley, a broad, arid plain between the San Juan Mountains on the west and the Sangre de Cristos on the east. Streams and creeks flowing out of the San Juan Mountains over millennia carried gravel and sand into shallow lakes in the San Luis Valley. During drought periods, these lakes dried, releasing the sand particles to the action of the wind. Strong prevailing southwesterly winds carry the tiny grains toward the Sangre de Cristos, piling them up against the foothills. The resulting dunes are the tallest in North America, covering more than 30 square miles. Adults hike across them and marvel at their beauty; children run and slide down their steep faces, enjoying a playground of fairy-tale proportions.

Mammoth Cave

Mammoth Cave National Park, established on July 1941, is home to an amazing underground network of lakes and rivers, interconnected caverns, and remarkable geologic features, including an abundance of massive stalactites and stalagmites.

Located in west-central Kentucky, the dark depths of Mammoth Cave have long attracted visitors. Mummified remains of a man, thought to be pre-Columbian in origin,

were found in the caves, and during the War of 1812 large amounts of saltpeter, a naturally occurring nitrate, were mined and used to make gunpowder.

Kilauea volcano

Kilauea is the youngest and most

active Hawaiian shield volcano,

located on the southern part of

the Island of Hawai'i, known as

Big Island. Hawai'i is the southernmost and largest of the

island chain, which owes its existence to the very active Hawaiian hot spot. Kilauea volcano is near-constantly erupting from vents

either on its summit or on the rift

zones. At present, Kilauea volcano is still having one of the

most long-lived eruptions known

on earth, which started in 1983

on the eastern rift zone and has

mainly been concentrated at the

Pu'u 'O'o vent.

Niagara Falls

From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lie on the Canadian side and the American Falls on the American side, separated by Goat Island. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls are also located on the American side, separated from the other waterfalls by Luna Island. The international boundary line was originally drawn through Horseshoe Falls in 1819, but the boundary has long been in dispute due to natural erosion and construction.

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