The U.S. National Park Service preserves 58 national parks, 390 parks, historic sites, memorials, and recreation areas that attract nearly 300 million visitors every year. Our U.S. national parks are repositories of the nation’s biological diversity and contain some of the last ecosystem remnants that are found nowhere else in the world. Explore US Parks Online

Shenandoah National Park is a beautiful, historic national treasure which includes the 105-mile long Skyline Drive, a National Scenic Byway. The Park covers the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains for over seventy-five miles. The Appalachian Trail roughly parallels the Skyline Drive and 101 miles of this trail run through the Park. (more…)

National Historic Trails

These National Park Service trails are part of the larger National Trails System. Only 3 of the trails are considered official units of the park system.

Name Location
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail Hawaii
Appalachian Trail (one of the 401 official units) Maine – Georgia
California National Historic Trail Missouri – California
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Delaware – District of Columbia – Maryland – Virginia
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Louisiana – Texas
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail New Mexico
Ice Age National Scenic Trail Wisconsin
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Arizona – California
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Illinois – Oregon
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail Illinois – Utah
Natchez Trace Trail (one of the 401 official units) Mississippi – Tennessee
North Country National Scenic Trail New York – North Dakota
Old Spanish National Historic Trail New Mexico – California
Oregon National Historic Trail Missouri – Oregon
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail Virginia – Tennessee – North Carolina – South Carolina
Pony Express National Historic Trail Missouri – California
Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (one of the 401 official units) Virginia – Maryland – Pennsylvania – Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail Missouri – New Mexico
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Alabama
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail District of Columbia – Maryland – Virginia
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail Tennessee – Oklahoma
Washington-Rochambeau National Historic Trail Massachusetts – Virginia