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One of my biggest dreams for my life is to visit EVERY National Park in the United States (and Canada would be amazing too). I will try to see as many as humanly, and feasibly possible for myself which I know will probably not be ALL, but a dream is a dream is a dream.

  • Watch flowing lava at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.
  • Take a rafting trip and sleep under the stars or at Phantom Ranch at Grand Canyon National Park.
  • Follow Bright Angel Trail down into the Grand Canyon on a mule ride or hike.
  • Go canoeing in Everglades National Park.
  • Drive, bike, or amble through Cades Cove, the most scenic part of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  • Walk through groves of towering giants at Redwood National Park.
  • Hike to the heavens on Angels Landing Trail, one of the most spectacular hikes in Zion National Park.
  • Watch fireflies light up the sky — in a rare synchronized dance — in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  • Watch Old Faithful erupt at Yellowstone National Park.
  • Visit the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park while you ponder their construction and abandonment.
  • Check out the rare wildlife in America's Galapagos at Channel Islands National Park.
  • Peer into the deepest lake in the U.S. at Crater Lake National Park.
  • Travel by water and land to get great views of Kenai Fjords National Park's fauna and Exit Glacier.
  • Take in the most magical mountain in America at Mount Rainier National Park.
  • Enjoy the view from Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park.
  • Begin a day at Sunrise Point with breathtaking views of the amphitheater of hoodoos below at Bryce Canyon National Park.
  • Hike down into the dormant volcanic crater at Haleakala National Park.
  • Spend the night in a historical "Great Lodge" at one of several National Parks in the West.
  • See Alaska's most iconic wildlife while traveling Denali's one-and-only road by shuttle, foot, or bicycle.
  • Plummet 75 stories underground to explore the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns.
  • See the Delicate Arch, Utah's most familiar symbol, for yourself, either from a distance, from your car, or up close.
  • Be the first in the U.S. to see the sunrise by attaining the peak of Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia National Park.
  • Listen to the elk bugling during Fall's mating season at Rocky Mountain National Park.
  • Drive the Icefields Parkway from Banff to Jasper in Alberta, Canada.
  • Drive Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun Road.
jun 10 2010 ∞
dec 9 2011 +