Eastern National Parks

Dry Tortugas National Park is the road trip destination you cannot drive to. It lies about 70 miles west of Key West, beyond the end of the Overseas…

Mammoth Cave National Park in south-central Kentucky protects the world’s longest known cave system, with more than 400 miles of passages mapped so far. Above ground there are…

Shenandoah National Park stretches along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, and one road runs its entire length: Skyline Drive. For 105 miles it follows…

Everglades National Park protects the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, a vast river of sawgrass that drains slowly toward Florida Bay. It sits less than an…

Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the Tennessee and North Carolina border, and it is the most visited national park in the country: more than 11.5 million visits…

Acadia National Park is where New England’s rocky coast meets granite mountains. Most of it sits on Mount Desert Island in Maine, and nearly everything visitors come for,…