National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States 9th Edition
February 2, 2021 English 528 Pages
Author(s): National Geographic
This guide is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated travel guide to America’s national parks, profiling all of the 62 official National Parks from Alaska to the U.S. Virgin Islands and territories like American Samoa.
It organizes parks by geographic region and provides detailed descriptions, expert travel advice, hiking and wildlife-spotting tips, and practical planning information drawn from National Geographic’s writers and park rangers. This fully revised edition also includes the latest parks added to the system including Indiana Dunes, White Sands and Gateway Arch and offers week-long regional road-trip itineraries so you can plan visits to multiple parks on a single trip.
Filled with more than 300 full-color photographs and about 80 maps, the book is designed to inspire and assist both first-time visitors and seasoned explorers in experiencing the dramatic landscapes, diverse wildlife, geological wonders and cultural history of some of the United States’ most treasured natural places.