Saguaro National Park, Arizona, founded in 1994, protects a piece of the Sonoran Desert, the only place in the world where the Saguaro (pronounced Suh-WAR-oh) cactus grows naturally. The Park is divided in two, east and west, flanking the city of Tucson. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating Scenery Uniqueness Wildlife Diversity […]
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Category: Habitat Conservation
Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, the first “National Seashore,” protects the beaches, dunes, wetlands and wildlife that comprise three major islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. I took a brief driving excursion into Cape Hatteras after visiting the nearby Wright […]
Rocky Mountain
Declared a National Park in 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is home to hundreds of peaks more than 10,000 feet tall including the 14,255 ft Longs Peak, one of Colorado’s tallest. More than that, the boundaries of Rocky Mountain NP encompass an entire set of mountain ecosystems and the wildlife which make them unique. […]
Pinnacles
Pinnacles National Park, California, is located just east of US 101 about 70 miles southeast of San Jose, CA. It is home to large formations of ancient volcanic spires in a very out-of-place setting among the rolling golden hills of central California. While it’s one of the oldest National Park lands, having been declared a […]
Yosemite
Yosemite, California, is the king of all National Parks. Although it was declared a National Park October 1st, 1890, after Yellowstone and Sequoia, Yosemite is the Park that started it all. It was here, amidst the spectacular beauty of “the valley” that John Muir convinced the US government to set aside some of its most […]
Redwood
Redwood National Park, California, was actually a latecomer to this area. Founded October 2nd, 1968, it joined three California State Parks in protecting some key groves of redwood trees, the tallest in the world, that grow only along a narrow strip of the California and Oregon coasts. Today, the area is jointly managed by the […]
Big Cypress
Big Cypress National Preserve, on the northern border of Everglades National Park in Florida, is home to several thousand acres of grasslands, waterways and cypress forests. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating ILNP Park Review Our Visit. We visited Big Cypress during May as we were driving back from a visit to […]
Big Bend
Big Bend National Park, Texas, protects the diverse ecology of the area inside the “Big Bend” in the Rio Grande, the border between the US and Mexico.Big Bend, while technically situated in a desert area, is home to more than 400 species of birds and contains several different climate zones ranging from the Chihuahuan desert […]
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
Sequoia National Park, the second oldest Park next to Yellowstone, was established in 1890 to protect the Giant Sequoia tree species found only in this area of the world. The Giant Sequoia is the largest of all living organisms, but their existence was threatened by logging before the Park was created. Kings Canyon National Park, […]
Kenai Fjords
Kenai Fjords, Alaska, achieving National Park status in 1980, is home to about a dozen glaciers and some great Alaskan wildlife. Located on the Alaskan coast near Anchorage, Kenai Fjords is best seen both by land and by boat. Visitor Rating (write your own review below) ILNP Rating Scenery Uniqueness Wildlife Diversity ILNP Park Review […]
Denali
Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska was founded in 1917 as Mt McKinley National Park. The centerpiece is Mt McKinley (known to locals by it’s native American name, Denali), North America’s highest peak at 20,320 feet, but the park’s 6,000,000+ acres are also home to a fantastic array of wildlife including moose, caribou, Dall […]