National Park Bucket List

Explore volcanoes, glaciers, turquoise lakes, rivers, and bear habitat in Lake Clark National Park.

Visit beaches, coral reefs, tropical forests, and historic ruins on Saint John in Virgin Islands National Park.

Watch brown bears, salmon runs, volcanoes, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai National Park.

Explore alpine lakes, high mountain roads, tundra, forests, and wildlife in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Explore Joshua tree forests, desert boulders, rugged mountains, and stargazing in Joshua Tree National Park.

Experience salt flats, dunes, canyons, mountains, and extreme desert landscapes in Death Valley National Park.

Walk lava landscapes and see active volcanic terrain in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Hike a trail through the US National Parks, collecting memories and photos.

East Asia’s highest peak outside the Himalaya at 3,952 m, permit-only and worth the paperwork.

A 4,562 m volcano through giraffe country, and the best acclimatisation walk before Kilimanjaro.

An active volcano you can ski in winter, with a hot acid lake in the crater.

The northern end of the Appalachian Trail, with the knife-edge ridge to the summit.

England's highest point at 978 m, one leg of the National Three Peaks Challenge.

Ethiopia's highest peak at 4,550 m, the end point of the Simien Mountains trek.

A 4,199 m granite summit above Jackson Hole, the classic American alpine climb.

Riverside park of elephants.

Sail to uninhabited reef-ringed islets.

Vast park of the white-eared kob migration.

One of the world's highest single-drop falls.

Mangroves and tidal flats teeming with migratory birds near Libreville.

Royal park of lions and elephants.

Primary rainforest of rare wildlife, UNESCO-listed.

The Seychelles' highest peak.

Liberia's rainforest wilderness.

Climb the highest peak on Bioko.

Forest park of waterfalls and rare birds.

One of the world's great bird reserves.

The US's only tropical rainforest.

Forest-savanna mix of mandrills and gorillas.

Transboundary savanna park, UNESCO-listed.