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…)

Rhode Island State Parks and Recreation

Rhode Island has no national parks, but it has 9 State Parks, 1 National Memorial, 1 National Historic Site, and 4 National Wildlife Refuges.

 

 

 

State Parks

National Memorial

National Historic Site

National Wildlife Refuges

  • John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge