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Hand-picked marquee destinations — the iconic places worth planning a trip around.
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Acadia & Downeast MaineAcadia protects 49,075 acres on Mount Desert Island around 1,530-ft Cadillac Mountain — the highest point on the U.S. Atlantic coast and, from October to March, the first place in the country to see sunrise — laced with 158 miles of trail and 45 miles of Rockefeller's car-free carriage roads.
Adirondacks NYAt six million acres, New York's Adirondack Park is the largest protected area in the contiguous U.S. — bigger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon combined — holding 46 High Peaks over 4,000 ft, some 3,000 lakes, and 2,000+ miles of trail under constitutional 'Forever Wild' protection.
Big Bend TXWhere the Rio Grande carves the Texas-Mexico border, Big Bend National Park spans 801,163 acres of desert, river, and the Chisos Mountains — the only mountain range entirely within a U.S. national park — with more bird species (450+) and darker skies than almost anywhere in the Lower 48.
Blue Ridge & ShenandoahShenandoah National Park strings 105-mile Skyline Drive and 101 miles of the Appalachian Trail along the ancient Blue Ridge, flowing into the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway — over 500 miles of park trails, CCC-built overlooks, and some of the East's best fall foliage.
Boundary Waters MNThe Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a 1.1-million-acre maze of over 1,100 lakes and roughly 1,200 miles of canoe routes linked by portage trails — the most visited wilderness in the U.S. and the premier flatwater canoe-camping destination in North America.
Everglades & South FloridaAt 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S. — a 60-mile-wide, inches-deep 'River of Grass,' the only place on Earth where alligators and crocodiles coexist, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Biosphere Reserve, and Ramsar wetland.
Olympic Peninsula WAOlympic National Park packs three ecosystems into 922,650 acres — glaciated peaks crowned by 7,980-ft Mount Olympus, the Hoh Rainforest that catches up to 14 feet of rain a year, and 73 miles of wild Pacific coastline — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve.
Outer Banks NCA ribbon of barrier islands off North Carolina, the Outer Banks hold the 198-ft Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (the tallest brick lighthouse in America, moved 2,900 ft inland in 1999), the site of the Wright brothers' first flight, and the shipwreck-strewn 'Graveyard of the Atlantic.'
Sedona & Red Rock CountrySedona is ringed by iron-stained sandstone buttes and spires — Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock, and the slickrock span of Devil's Bridge — laced with hundreds of miles of hiking and mountain-biking trail in the Coconino National Forest, an hour from the dark skies of Flagstaff.
Traverse City AreaOn the turquoise arms of Grand Traverse Bay, the Traverse City area pairs the towering perched dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore — rising about 450 feet above Lake Michigan — with the cherry orchards and cool-climate vineyards of the Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas.
Vancouver Island BCVancouver Island stretches some 32,000 km² of wild Pacific coast, old-growth rainforest, and rugged mountains — from the surf and storms of Tofino and the 75-km West Coast Trail to ancient groves of cedar and the orca-rich waters of the Salish Sea.
Zion & Bryce Canyon AreaTwo of Utah's 'Mighty Five' an hour apart: Zion's 2,000-ft Navajo Sandstone canyon, with the chained spine of Angels Landing and the river-wading Narrows, and high-elevation Bryce Canyon, whose amphitheaters hold the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth.