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…)

Hawaii National and State Parks and Recreation

Polynesians from distant lands came to the shores of Hawaii over a thousand years ago. Sailing on large, double-hulled canoes, they navigated by using the position of the stars, the sun and the moon, by the movement of the waves and by the flight of the birds.

Hawaii has 2 national parks, 14 state parks, 2 National Historic Parks, 1 National Wildlife Refuge, and 2 wilderness areas.

National Parks

State Parks

 

National Historic Parks

Hawaii and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge Areas

  • Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Hule’ia National Wildlife Refuge  
  • James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Kakahaia National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Mariana Trench Marine National Monument  
  • Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Oahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Wake Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Hawaii Wilderness Areas

Hawaii has two wilderness areas.

  • Haleakala Wilderness
  • Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness