Recently, a website that will go unmentioned put together a list of "the nation's worst national parks." While that list was soundly, and justifiably, ridiculed and dismissed, it brings to mind this question: What are the nation's best national parks? If you were to compile a Top 10 list of national parks, which would you include on it?
Would Yellowstone be on everyone's list? How about Acadia, or Canyonlands, or Denali?
So tell us, travelers, what does your Top 10 list of national parks look like?
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Tough list to make, but today these would be my ten favorites. (Might look different tomorrow):
Theodore Roosevelt
Olympic
Congaree
Acadia
Virgin Islands
Rocky Mountain
Death Valley
Isle Royale
American Samoa
Redwood
Will I get my hand slapped if I am of the philosophy that the word "park" is only an unimportant and artificial label and that many less "important" places deserve to be on a top ten list?
So, knowing I am at risk of punishment, here is my list:
Yellowstone
Zion
Hovenweep
Natural Bridges
Golden Spike
Pipe Spring
Great Basin
Death Valley
Apostle Islands
Devils Tower
Okay, you can slap me now.
Lee, no hand-slapping here, though I do note a peculiar geologic layout to your choices;-)
I've given up on "Best & Better."
What, one of the 7 Natural Wonders in the world doesn't rate:)?
Yosemite
Zion
Glaicer
Yellowstone
Grand Tetons
Sequoia / Kings Canyon
Death Valley
Olympic
Arches
Denali
Honorable Mention: Bryce, Acadia, Canyonlands
I am with trailadvocate on this, I to like them all.
My List has two parts five I have been to and five on my bucket list;
Yellowstone/Grand Teton
Zion
Glacier
Great Smokies
Rocky Mtn.
Bucket List;
Yosemite
Acadia
Big Bend
Biscayne
Katmai
For me at the moment it is:
Glacier
Grand Teton
Olympic
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Bryce Canyon
Zion
Acadia
Crater Lake
Arches