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Central Park. Nestled amid towering high-rise buildings of New York City, the USA’s largest city, Central Park is the largest urban park in the USA. Sheltered from the commotion of over eight-million New Yorkers hustling about its outskirts, the Park’s ubiquitous charm offers a gratifying retreat. An estimated 25-million people visit the Park each year, and it’s no wonder. The variety of recreational, cultural, educational, and community events is just as diverse as Park visitors. Several hotels and shops are within walking distance from the Park’s 843 enchanting acres (3.4 km2). Others are just a short taxi-cab or bus ride away–a traveler’s delight!
The Smithsonian Museums and Parks. One of the wonderful aspects of Washington DC is that it contains the biggest museum complex in the world. The Smithsonian Institute is a conglomeration of sixteen widely different buildings and parks. Eleven of them are downtown between the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument, lining a large grassy field known as “The Mall.” Four other museums and park are located in various suburbs of DC, easily accessible by the Metro subway system.
Niagara Falls State Park. Niagara Falls is one of the great natural wonders of the world. Over one million gallons (4 million liters) of water per second pour over a 180 feet (60 m) high cliff that is nearly 0.6 miles (1 km) wide. The incessantly pounding water forms a continuous spray that enshrouds the Niagara gorge in a perpetual mist decorated with shining rainbows. It is a spectacular sight.
Valley of Fire. The Valley of Fire State Park is situated just 35 miles north east of Las Vegas near the village of Overton, NV. You can reach it by driving north on interstate 15 for approximately 30 miles, then turning east on Route 169 at the Moapa Indian Reservation. It is less than an hour drive from the Las Vegas strip.
Grand Teton National Park. The Grand Teton Mountains are the youngest mountain range in North America. They are also the most rugged and most beautiful mountains in the USA. This tiny offshoot of the Rocky Mountain Cordillera is but 80 miles (130 km) long and less than half as wide. The Grand Teton range forms the western rim of a large upland plain surrounded by mountains known as Jackson Hole. Their jagged peaks rise almost vertically for about 4,000 feet (1250 m) above the 12-mile (20 km) wide valley of Jackson Hole. Several large lakes lie at the base of the mountains providing wonderful reflective pools. This makes the views of the Grand Teton spectacular and very photogenic.
Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park contains some of the strangest and most interesting geological features found anywhere in the world. This vast caldera or volcanic basin is the remnant of a giant volcano that blew its top many millennia ago. The area still sits atop a hot spot in the earth’s crust and provides us with a unique opportunity to view a fascinating assortment of highly active geothermal phenomena. It is one of the few places on our planet where hot water and steam come bubbling, fizzing, gurgling, hissing and even exploding out of the earth at thousands of colorful mineral-encrusted hot springs and vents. Cauldrons of mud bubble and splat their colorful liquid plasters to form large volcanic cones. Hundreds of geysers sleep in placid hot springs for hours or days, then at semi-regular intervals erupt into great plumes of hot water and steam rising hundreds of feet overhead before retiring to their tepid hibernation. You can find geysers in a few other locations around the world, but there are more active geysers in Yellowstone National Park than there are in every other location combined.
. Mount Rainier is a large volcanic peak located 85 miles (140 km) southeast of Seattle Washington. It rises to 14,410 feet (4,392 meters) and towers at least 8,000 feet (2,500 meters) above any of the surrounding mountains. On clear days, it dominates the southern horizon from Seattle and every surrounding community. The summit and its upper flanks are perpetually covered with 35 square miles of ice and snow including 23 active glaciers.
Shenandoah National Park. If you stood among the ancient hardwood trees and watched the mist flow across the land, you would swear that Shenandoah was a magical place filled with fairies hiding in the mountain laurel and gnomes dancing from rock to rock. Although there are no fairies or gnomes, this huge section of land is a wilderness filled with color and quiet splendor underground, in the forest and across the sky.