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…)

North Dakota State Parks and Recreation

North Dakota doesn’t have any national parks. It has 13 State Parks, 1 State Historic Site, 5 State Wildlife Management Areas, 1 National Memorial, 1 National Historic Site, 4 National Wildlife Areas, 70 National Wildlife Refuges, and 3 wilderness areas.

 

State Parks

State Historic Site

State Wildlife Management Areas

National Memorial

National Historic Site

National Wildlife Areas

National Wildlife Refuges

  • Arrowwood Wetland Management District  
  • Audubon National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Audubon Wetland Management District  
  • Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Chase Lake Wetland Management District  
  • Crosby Wetland Management District  
  • Dakota Tallgrass Prairie Wildlife Management Area  
  • Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Devils Lake Wetland Management District  
  • Florence Lake National Wildlife Refuge  
  • J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge  
  • J. Clark Salyer Wetland Management District  
  • Kellys Slough National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Kulm Wetland Management District  
  • Lake Alice National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Lake Nettie National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Long Lake Wetland Management District  
  • Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Lostwood Wetland Management District  
  • McLean National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Shell Lake National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Slade National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Stewart Lake National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Sullys Hill National Game Preserve  
  • Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Tewaukon Wetland Management District  
  • Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge  
  • Valley City Wetland Management District  
  • White Lake National Wildlife Refuge

North Dakota Wilderness Areas

There are three wilderness areas in the state of North Dakota.

  • Chase Lake Wilderness
  • Lostwood Wilderness
  • Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness