The United States has 63 national parks, which constitute conservation areas authorized by Congress and maintained by the National Park Service, a branch of the Interior Department. These qualify “because of some notable aesthetic feature or natural phenomenon,” usually for their natural beauty and distinctive geological characteristics. It has diversified ecosystems and recreational possibilities. Despite the fact that all units of the National Park System are legally equal and have the same goal, national parks are bigger and more popular tourist sites, and hunting and other extractive activities are not fine there. National monuments, on the other hand, frequently receive protection owing to their historical or archaeological significance.
These separate units don’t appear on maps, although they are part of the National Park System’s 424 units, all of which are famous as national parks.
Southwest of Bar Harbor, near the middle of the Maine coast, is where you’ll find Acadia National Park. The park protects a piece of Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, the majority of Mount Desert Island, nearly half of Mount Desert Island, and 16 smaller surrounding islands. The rocky headlands’ natural beauty protection includes the highest mountains along the Atlantic coast. Acadia is famous for its glaciated coastline and island landscape, biodiversity, clean air and water, and vast cultural past.
NATIONAL PARK OF AMERICAN SAMOA:
On three islands—Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta’—in the American Samoa territory of the United States, there is a park called the National Park of American Samoa. The park preserves and protects coral reefs, tropical rainforests, fruit bats, and Samoan culture. Hiking and snorkeling are two popular pastimes. 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of the park’s 8,257 acres (3,341 ha) comprise coral reefs and the ocean. Just this park lies south of the equator in the American National Park Service system.
ARCHES NATIONAL PARK:
Eastern Utah in the United States is home to the national park known as Arches. Arches national park is four miles (six kilometers) north of Moab, Utah, next to the Colorado River. The park has over 2,000 naturally occurring sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch and several unusual geological features and formations. The park has the largest concentration of natural arches in the world.
The Colorado Plateau’s 310.31 square kilometers (76,680 acres; 119.81 sq mi; 31,031 ha) park is an entire high desert. Elephant Butte in the park has a height of 5,653 feet (1,723 m). Still, the visitor center is located at a lower elevation of 4,085 feet (1,245 m).
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK:
Southwest South Dakota is home to the US Badlands National Park. The park preserves the biggest unspoiled mixed grass prairie in the United States, with 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of steeply eroded buttes and pinnacles. The National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota tribe jointly maintain the park’s South Unit. The North Unit of the Badlands Wilderness Park covers 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) and is a protected wilderness area. it is also one of the locations where the black-footed ferret has successfully reintroduced to the wild.
CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK:
American national park Carlsbad Caverns National Park is in southeast New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains. The park’s display cave, Carlsbad Cavern, is its main draw. Visitors may reach the cave’s natural entrance on foot or use an elevator from the tourist center. Eighteen miles southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico, on US Highway 62/180, you’ll find the park entrance. Junior Rangers is a program that Carlsbad Caverns National Park participates in. The Caverns Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District are two of the park’s listings on the National Register of Historic Places. The park is a wilderness region and the ecosystem will not change in the future.