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national park

DEFINITIONS OF: national park

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n a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property

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Acadia National Park
a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation; includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast
Arches National Park
a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion
Badlands National Park
a national park in South Dakota having multicolored peaks and spires resulting from erosion; fossil sites
Big Bend National Park
a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife
Biscayne National Park
a national park in Florida having underwater coral reefs and marine life
Bryce Canyon National Park
a national park in Utah having multicolored rock erosions
Canyonlands National Park
a national park in Utah having rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings; canyons of the Green River and the Colorado River
Capitol Reef National Park
a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations
Channel Islands National Park
a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life
Crater Lake National Park
a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano
Denali National Park
a large national park in Alaska having peaks of the Alaska Range (including Mount McKinley) and the huge Denali fault
Everglades National Park
a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals
Gates of the Arctic National Park
a large national park in Alaska featuring the Great Mendenhall Glacier
Grand Canyon National Park
a national park in Arizona including the mile deep canyon of the Colorado River which shows geologic features and fossil plants and animals
Grand Teton National Park
a national park in Wyoming featuring mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
a national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas; includes desert wilderness and the ancient Apache hunting grounds
Haleakala National Park
a national park in Hawaii including a dormant volcano
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
a national park in Hawaii featuring active volcanoes
Hot Springs National Park
a national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs; bathing is said to have therapeutic effects
Isle Royal National Park
a national park on an island in Michigan; includes prehistoric iron mines
Katmai National Park
a national park in Alaska featuring mountains
Kenai Fjords National Park
a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines
Kings Canyon National Park
a national park in California that has giant sequoia trees and alpine lakes and glaciers
Kobuk Valley National Park
a national park in Alaska having mountains and forests and tundra and sand dunes and archeological sites
Lake Clark National Park
a national park in Alaska having Eskimo and Athapaskan archeological sites
Lassen Volcanic National Park
a national park in California having mountains and volcanic lakes and hot springs
Mammoth Cave National Park
a national park in Kentucky having a large cavern and an underground river
Mesa Verde National Park
a national park in Colorado containing prehistoric cliff dwellings; semiarid landscape
Mount Ranier National Park
a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps
North Cascades National Park
a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites
Olympic National Park
a national park in Washington having rain forests of giant evergreens
Petrified Forest National Park
a national park in Arizona having the world's largest collection of petrified coniferous trees
Platt National Park
a national park in Oklahoma having mineral springs
Redwood National Park
a national park in California featuring a redwood forest and Pacific Ocean coastline
Rocky Mountain National Park
a national park in Colorado having mountains and lakes and streams and forests
Sequoia National Park
a national park in California that includes Mount Whitney
Shenandoah National Park
a national park in Virginia for the Blue Ridge Mountains
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial National Park
a national park in North Dakota that includes the site of former President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch
Virgin Islands National Park
a national park in the Virgin Islands having tropical plants and animals; sandy beaches and coral reefs
Voyageurs National Park
a national park in Minnesota having ancient rock outcroppings and evergreen forests
Wind Cave National Park
a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
the largest national park of the United States; located in Alaska
Yellowstone National Park
the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears
Yosemite National Park
a national park in California famous for its waterfalls and rock formations
Zion National Park
a national park in Utah having huge canyons and gorges carved by mountain rivers
Serengeti National Park
a national park in Tanzania created in 1951 to protect the wildlife
Type of:
park, parkland
a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
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