Seaside Heights Beach in New Jersey is a popular Jersey Shore destination featuring soft white sand, clear blue waters, and lifeguard protection from Memorial Day to Labor Day, drawing families and young visitors for swimming, sunbathing, surfing, and shell hunting.
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is a lush Big Sur canyon park centered on the Big Sur River where towering coast redwoods, mixed conifer and oak woodlands, meadows and seasonal waterfalls create a compact, dramatic forested landscape near Highway 1.
Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, was established in 1897 when the city received a gift of three deer, growing over time to become the state's first zoo.
Findley State Park is an 838‑acre Ohio state park located near the village of Wellington in northern Ohio, originally established as a state forest before becoming a park in 1950 when Judge Guy B. Findley donated the land to Lorain County.
Gasparilla Island State Park spans 127 acres at the southern tip of Gasparilla Island south of Boca Grande, Florida, accessible via the toll Boca Grande Causeway, preserving a barrier island chain along Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island Sound with nearly a mile of pristine Gulf beaches ideal for shelling, swimming, snorkeling, and fishing.
Fairy Stone State Park is Virginia's largest of the original six state parks, covering 4,741 acres in Patrick County near the Blue Ridge Parkway and adjoining Philpott Reservoir, renowned for its rare cross-shaped staurolite fairy stones formed by natural mineral crystals.
Rhododendron State Park spans 2,723 acres around Little Monadnock Mountain in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, and is renowned for its 16-acre grove of native Rhododendron maximum, the largest such stand in New England and a National Natural Landmark since 1982.
The James P. Kelleher Rose Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, is a charming and tranquil garden founded in 1931 and located in the Back Bay Fens, part of the Emerald Necklace park system.
Cherokee Landing State Park is a 146-acre park in Cherokee County near Park Hill, Oklahoma, USA, on a peninsula jutting into Lake Tenkiller amid the scenic Cookson Hills south of Tahlequah.
Tumalo State Park is a year-round state park in Deschutes County, central Oregon, USA, located about 4 miles northwest of Bend along the Deschutes River amid ponderosa pines, junipers, and alders.
Mt. Philo State Park is Vermont's oldest state park, spanning 237 acres around the 968-foot summit of Mount Philo in Charlotte, offering stunning panoramic views of Lake Champlain, the Adirondack Mountains to the west, and the Green Mountains including Camel's Hump to the east.
Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis, Wyoming, is the state’s oldest park, established in 1897 on land purchased from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park, formerly John U. Lloyd Beach State Park, spans 310 acres in Dania Beach near Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, Florida, USA, preserving the last undeveloped coastal ecosystem in the area with 2.5 miles of oceanfront beach, Whiskey Creek manatee sanctuary, coastal hammocks, mangroves, and artificial reefs like the Dania Beach Erojacks.
Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts preserves and commemorates the sites and landscapes associated with the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775.
Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint is a roadside state park straddling Deschutes and Jefferson counties in central Oregon, USA, about 9 miles north of Redmond along U.S. Route 97 overlooking the Crooked River Canyon.
Pocomoke River State Park is a roughly 7,000–900‑acre Maryland state park along the Pocomoke River in Worcester County, between Snow Hill and Pocomoke City, with two main sections—Shad Landing on the south bank and Milburn Landing on the north bank—both set inside the larger Pocomoke State Forest.
