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 Water Trails System

Water trails (also referred to as Blueways or Paddling Trails) are marked routes on navigable waterways such as rivers, lakes, canals and coastlines for people using small non-motorized boats such as kayaks, canoes, rafts, or rowboats.
Some trails may be suitable for float tubing or developed in concert with motorized use. Water trails not only require suitable access points and take-outs for exit but also provide places ashore to camp and picnic, and other facilities for boaters.

  • Alabama Scenic River Trail
  • Bronx River Blueway
  • Chattahoochee River Water Trail
  • Hudson River Greenway Water Trail
  • Island Loop Route
  • Kansas River Trail
  • Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Water Trail
  • Mississippi River Water Trail (MRWT) Great River Water Trail
  • Missouri National Recreational River Water Trail
  • Okefenokee Wilderness Canoe Trails
  • Red Rock Water Trail
  • Rock River Water Trail
  • Waccamaw River Blue Trail
  • Willamette River Water Trail