State Parks

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

At the site of the most dangerous crossings on the Oregon Trail, a museum explores the complex history of westward migration in America.

A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

West Virginia’s first state park commemorates one of the state’s last significant Civil War battles.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

Nevada's second-newest state park offers camping, fishing, hiking, and river float trips.

More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

Florence's historic adobe county courthouse was turned into a historic site that honors one of Arizona's most prominent political leaders.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.