The most beautiful national parks in the USA -> Destinations

  Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural monuments on Earth, being crossed by the Colorado River, for millions of years. The Grand Canyon National Park is located in northwestern Arizona. The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River in the plateau of the same name. The huge canyon is 445 kilometers long and about 25 km width, while the height is more than 1500 meters.   Founded in 1919, the park is visited annually by more than four mill...

   Founded in 1890, Yosemite National Park located 4 hours drive east of San Francisco, has 2,400 square miles of wilderness in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The park is particularly known for landscape and giant sequoia trees are 2500-3000 years old, with a diameter of up to 11 feet and 75-90 feet tall, gorgeous mountains and wildlife, is usually crowded in the months summer and almost deserted in winter, when temperatures are lower.    ...

The National Park and Preserve Denali is a natural park located in the center of American and Alaska, which includes Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America (6194 meters). The park covers 24 585 km ², the size of four French departments. The word "Denali" means "up" in Athapaskan. The mountain was renamed after the American presidential candidate, William McKinley, but the native name of this mountain is Mount Denali....

   Glacier National Park is a U.S. national park located in the U.S. state of Montana. Founded in 1910 and an area of 4 101 km ², it is bordered to the north by the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.      The park consists of mountain sheltering dozens of glaciers, lakes and hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species, is one of the best preserved ecosystems in the country. It is part of a larger protected ecosystem (44 00...

    Bryce Canyon National Park is situated in the south-western part of Utah. The canyon is the park, which really is not a true canyon, but rather a natural amphitheater. Canyon arose through processes of erosion on the eastern most prominent plate "Paunsaugunt-plate" special petrographic structure allowed a higher erosion caused by wind, water and ice is forming formations called hoodoos geolgice. Depending on the composition of sedimentary rocks have colors ranging...

   Yellowstone Park is a land of heat and vapor, where hot water gushing geysers to astounding heights. In 1872, President Grant declared a national park area of 9000km ², the first in the world. Yellowstone name derives from the name Native Americans gave him the largest river in the region. Yellowstone River has carved the Grand Canyon in the yellow rock that flow down from the lake as a series of impressive cataracts. Here we find natural baths and terraces of calc...

    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park established in 1916, is a U.S. national park located on the island of Hawaii. Is the result of hundreds of thousands of years of volcanism, migration and evolution - processes that have taken a small part of the sea and covered with a unique and complex ecosystems, with a distinct culture. The park contains various ecosystems ranging from sea level up to the highest point of land, top of Mauna Loa volcano (4.170m). Kilauea, one of the world's ...

   Grand Teton National Park is located in western Wyoming south of Yellowstone National Park. Park name comes from the mountain chain Teton Range (4197 m) that covers the territory from north to south park. East of the mountain chain of mountain lakes are the biggest Jackson Lake is a vast plain region called "Jackson Hole". First came the white area was John Colter (1808), seeing as he named after the French mountains, which means breast (breast nipple). The region was d...