National scenic areas in the United States
This article lists scenic areas in the United States National Park System: national preserves, national recreation areas, national seashores, national lakeshores, national rivers, national wild and scenic rivers, national reserves, and a few miscellaneous protected areas.
This article doesn't contain all the natural areas in the National Park System. See also United States National Parks and United States National Monuments, together constituting the most spectacular destinations in the system, as well as United States National Parkways and the National Trails System.
New England
Massachusetts
- 🌍 Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Cape Cod National Seashore
- Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Wild and Scenic Rivers
- Westfield Wild and Scenic River
Vermont
- 🌍 Moosalamoo National Recreation Area (USFS), Green Mountains
- 🌍 White Rocks National Recreation Area (USFS), Green Mountains
Mid-Atlantic
- 🌍 Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Middle Delaware National Scenic River (New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
- 🌍 Gateway National Recreation Area (New Jersey, New York)
- Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River (New York, Pennsylvania)
Delaware
Maryland
Assateague Island National Seashore
- 🌍 Assateague Island National Seashore
- 🌍 Catoctin Mountain Park
- 🌍 Greenbelt Park, Greenbelt — A wooded park with a campground in the DC suburbs.
- 🌍 Piscataway Park, Accokeek
New Jersey
- Great Egg Harbor River
- 🌍 New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve
Washington, D.C.
- 🌍 Anacostia Park, Anacostia
- 🌍 East Potomac Park, Waterfront
- 🌍 Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, Anacostia
- 🌍 Meridian Hill
- 🌍 Rock Creek Park (Meridian Hill Park, Old Stone House, Peirce Mill, Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway)
South
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
- 🌍 Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (Kentucky, Tennessee)
- 🌍 Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (USFS) (Kentucky, Tennessee)
Georgia
- 🌍 Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Atlanta
- 🌍 Cumberland Island National Seashore
- 🌍 Ed Jenkins National Recreation Area (USFS)
West Virginia
- 🌍
Bluestone National Scenic River
- 🌍
Gauley River National Recreation Area
- 🌍 New River Gorge National River
- 🌍 Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area (USFS)
Florida
- 🌍 Big Cypress National Preserve
- 🌍 — Contains the second-highest number of endangered species of any U.S. national park.
- 🌍 Gulf Islands National Seashore
- 🌍 Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
Midwest
- 🌍
Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
Michigan
- 🌍 Grand Island National Recreation Area (USFS)
- 🌍 Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- 🌍 Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Texas
- 🌍 Amistad National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Big Thicket National Preserve
- 🌍 Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Padre Island National Seashore
- Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River
Great Plains
- 🌍
Missouri National Recreational River
Oklahoma
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Chickasaw National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area (USFS)
Rocky Mountains
- 🌍 Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (Montana, Wyoming)
Colorado
- 🌍 Arapaho National Recreation Area (USFS), near Granby
- 🌍 Curecanti National Recreation Area
Idaho
Sawtooth National Recreation Area
- 🌍 City of Rocks National Reserve
- 🌍 Sawtooth National Recreation Area (USFS), near Ketchum
Southwest
- 🌍 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Arizona, Utah)
- 🌍 Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Arizona, Nevada)
New Mexico
- 🌍 Jemez National Recreation Area (USFS), Jemez Mountains
- 🌍 Valles Caldera National Preserve (USFS) — A huge volcanic caldera situated in the midst of the Jemez Mountains, now covered in a verdant grassland.
California
Alcatraz Island
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area — Preserves a set of coastal areas in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 🌍 Alcatraz Island, San Francisco — The infamous island prison in San Francisco Bay, once the holding site of notorious mobsters.
- 🌍 Fort Mason, Golden Gate, San Francisco — A former U.S. military coastal post perched on a scenic hill overlooking the bay, with preserved buildings now holding a set of cultural museums and a popular youth hostel.
- 🌍 Lands End, Richmond, San Francisco — Scenic coastline near the Golden Gate Bridge with hiking trails overlooking jagged cliffs, shipwrecks, and the ruins of a 19th century bathhouse.
- 🌍 Marin Headlands — North of the Golden Gate Bridge, a hilly region with spectacular views over the Bay and San Francisco, ocean cliffs, and historic sites.
- 🌍 Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley — A forest of old growth coastal redwoods.
- 🌍 Presidio of San Francisco, with Fort Point National Historic Site, Golden Gate, San Francisco — A former Spanish, then American military post overlooking the Golden Gate, with former barracks and defense fortifications.
- 🌍 Mojave National Preserve
- 🌍 Point Reyes National Seashore
- 🌍 Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Smith River National Recreation Area (USFS), Crescent City
- 🌍 Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, near Redding
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
- 🌍 Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (USFS), near Baker City
- 🌍 Mount Hood National Recreation Area (USFS)
- 🌍 Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (USFS), Corvallis
Alaska
- Alagnak Wild and Scenic River
- 🌍 Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- 🌍 Noatak National Preserve
- 🌍 White Mountains National Recreation Area (BLM), near Fairbanks
- 🌍 Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve
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