As a reminder that the US and Canada’s national parks aren’t just for car-camping families, National Geographic Adventure has just posted a web-exclusive “Insider’s Guide to the Great Parks” with info on 30 parks throughout North America where you can get back to some serious nature this summer. There are classics on the list – the Grand Canyon, Arches – but also far-flung corners of protected wilderness – Canada’s Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve? There’s also an abundance of interesting attractions that go beyond Old Faithful-spectating, or getting your photo snapped in a giant sequoia. Who knew, for example, that the Denali lodges have a Northern-Lights wake-up call service, that there’s year-round surfing in the islands of Bristish Columbia’s Pacific Rim National Park, or that there’s a park in Arkansas built as America’s answer to the great European spa towns?
Posted on Jun 06, 2006 01:12 PM by kristin
