Reader Participation Day: What's On Your National Park Bucket List?

Published Date

March 30, 2011

What's on your park bucket list? Standing atop Acadia, canoeing in Voyageurs, or strolling the Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone? Top two photos NPS, bottom photo by Kurt Repanshek.

What's on your national park bucket list? Which parks do you want to experience before you reach the end of the line?

For those who live in the West, within a day or two drive of such icons as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, or Grand Teton, you might be longing to visit Acadia National Park in Maine, Everglades in Florida, or Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina.

Conversely, if you live in the East, you might be dreaming of waking up to the sound of Old Faithful erupting, walking through the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic, or standing atop Logan Pass in Glacier.

So tell us, which parks would you like to check off your bucket list?

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Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 6:29am.

Don't yet know what I'll do when I arrive, but I feel like I've got to get to Aniakchak National Monument. It's almost an achievement just to say you were there.

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 8:36am.

Of all National Parks worldwide, Torres del Paine and El Tatio Geyser Field in Chile would be the top choices (both on the same bucket trip), with Dolina Geyserov (Valley of the Geysers) in Kamchatka right up there. Within the U.S., it would have to be Denali National Park.

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 8:52am.

The National Park of American Samoa. How to get there without mortgaging the house though?

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 8:56am.

Someday hope to see the bears in Katmai.

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 9:07am.

Honestly, ALL of the national parks are on my bucket list! Yosemite has already been checked off, but I'm headed back there again this summer. Unfortunately, I'll have to take a break from Yosemite if I hope to get to all of the other parks.

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 9:23am.

I would love to do one of the tours at Mesa Verde. And I have Yosemite, Acadia, The National Mall, and anything in Alaska on my bucket list.

Submitted by admin on March 30, 2011 - 10:02am.

We have taken our kids to over 15 National Parks in the last 8 months, and my vote for best so far is Glacier NP. Yosemite is on our Bucket List. Check out our adventures: http://yearlongadventure.wordpress.com/

Submitted by justinh on March 30, 2011 - 10:10am.

To visit a Maine Woods National Park.

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