Maintains national parks, historical parks, historical sites, scenic trails, historic trails, monuments, memorials, wild rivers, seashores, petrified forests, battlefields, and military parks. Website is searchable alphabetically by state and by park name. Includes information on fees, accessibility, weather, camping and lodging, required permits, exhibits, hours, and nearby attractions.

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Large areas of special scenic, historic or scientific importance that are set aside by the federal government and preserved in their natural state for public enjoyment and appreciation as well as for environmental study. Included are national preserves, areas having the same characteristics as national parks but in which Congress has permitted public hunting, trapping, logging, and oil and gas exploration and extraction.

National Parks

The principal executive divisions of the federal government of the United States, headed by a secretary who is a member of the President's cabinet, the agencies within them and the independent establishments and corporations that fall outside the cabinet structure.

Federal Government Agencies/Departments

Tourist bureaus, information centers and other community organizations that make available information about local points of interest, cultural events, recreational activities, hotels, restaurants, medical and dental services and other community resources.

Tourist Information

An eclectic group of places, landmarks, structures and other objects of historic, scenic or scientific interest situated on lands owned or controlled by the federal government and set aside for preservation, usually by presidential proclamation. Included are selected fossil beds, cliff dwellings and other Native American ruins, pueblo and Spanish church ruins, effigy mounds, caves, cliffs, buttes, canyons, lava beds, sand dunes, natural bridges, petrified forests, sites of volcanic activity, glacier areas, sub-arctic ecosystems, marine gardens, coastal mountain fjords, northern boreal forests, and fragile habitats of specific species of animals, birds, fish and other wildlife. National Monuments in the U.S. are managed by the Bureau of Land Management.