national park

/ˈnæʃənəl pɑrk/

/ˈnæʃənəl pɑk/

Definitions of national park

1. noun

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

   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