National PreservesSome national preserves are also national parks (such as Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve). All 18 national preserves (some of which are also national parks) are listed here. Establishment dates are the date that the area was designated a preserve. Some areas may have been national monuments or parks before being designated as a preserve. Fact BoxAniakchak National Monument and Preserve602,779 acres Visitation (2009) 14 Fact BoxBering Land Bridge National PreserveEstablished 1978 2,698,919 acres Visitation (2009) 1,054 Fact BoxBig Cypress National Preserve720,567 acres Visitation (2009) 812,207 Fact BoxBig Thicket National PreserveEstablished 1974 97,830 acres Visitation (2007) 95,285 Fact BoxCraters of the Moon National Monument and PreserveEstablished 2002 464,304 acres Visitation (2010) 215,698 Fact BoxDenali National Park and PreserveEstablished 1917 6,075,107 acres Visitation (2005) 1,178,745 Fact BoxGates of the Arctic National Park and PreserveEstablished 1980 8,472,506 acres Visitation (2007) 10,924 Fact BoxGlacier Bay National Park and PreserveEstablished 1980 3,283,246 acres Visitation (2006) 413,382 Fact BoxGreat Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve84,670 acres Visitation (2006) 258,660 Fact BoxKatmai National Park and PreserveEstablished in 1980 4,725,188 acres Visitation (2007) 82,634 Fact BoxLake Clark National Park and PreserveEstablished in 1980 4,030,025 acres Visitation (2010) 7,463 Fact BoxLittle River Canyon National PreserveEstablished 1992 13,633 acres Visitation (2005) 201,442 Fact BoxMojave National PreserveEstablished 1994 1,534,819 acres Visitation (2005) 632,521 Fact BoxNoatak National PreseveEstablished 1978 6,569,904 acres Visitation (2005) 7,010 Fact BoxTallgrass Prairie National Preserve10,894 acres Visitation (2005) 17,615 Fact BoxTimucuan Ecological and Historic PreserveEstablished 1988 46,000 acres Visitation (2005) 903,177 Fact BoxYukon-Charley National PreserveEstablished 1978 2,525,512 acres Visitation (2005) 12,784 Fact BoxWrangell-St. Elias National Park and PreserveEstablished 1980 13,175,901 acres Visitation (2007) 61,085 National Military ParksFact BoxChickamauga and ChattanoogaGeorgia and Tennessee Established 1890 8,119 acres Visitation (2011) 901,384 Fact BoxFredericksburg and SpotsylvaniaVirginia Established 1927 8,374 acres Visitors (2005) 534,636 Fact BoxGettysburgPennsylvania Established 1967 3,965 acres Visitation (2010) 1,031,554 Fact BoxGuilford CourthouseNorth Carolina Established 1917 220 acres Visitation (2004) 277,484 Fact BoxHorseshoe BendAlabama Established 1959 2,040 acres Visitation (2005) 58,564 Fact BoxKings MountainSouth Carolina Established 1931 3,945 acres Visitors (2005) 268,394 Fact BoxPea RidgeArkansas Established 1956 4,300 acres Visitation (2011) 114,234 Fact BoxShiloh National Military Park
Tennessee and Mississippi Established 1894 3,997 acres Visitation (2005) 315,296 Fact BoxVicksburg Mississippi and Louisiana Established 1899 1,853 acres Visitation (2005) 703,484 National Battlefield ParksFact BoxKennesaw MountainGeorgia Established 1917 2,888 acres Visitation (2005) 1,005,510 Fact BoxManassasVirginia Established 1940 5,073 acres Visitation (2005) 715,622
Fact BoxRichmondVirginia Established 1936 7,307 acres Visitation (2005) 68,438 National Historic and Scenic TrailsFact BoxAla KahakaiHawaii Established 2000 175 miles long Fact BoxAppalachian TrailSpringer Mountain, GA- Mount Katahdin, ME 2,181 miles long Fact BoxCalifornia TrailMissouri to California about 2,000 miles long Fact BoxCaptain John Smith TrailDelaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C 3,000 miles long(all trails together) Established 2006 Fact BoxEl Camino Real de los TejasLouisiana- Texas 2,500 miles long Established 2004 Fact BoxEl Camino Real De Tierra AdentroSan Juan Pueblo, NM to Mexico City, Mexico 1,600 miles Established 2000 Fact BoxIce Age National Scenic TrailDoor County, WI- St. Croix Falls, WI 1,200 miles Not Completed Yet Fact BoxJuan Bautista de Anza Trail1,210 miles long Fact BoxLewis and Clark TrailWood River, IL- Astoria, OR 3,700 miles long Established 1978
Fact BoxMormon PioneerNauvoo, IL- Salt Lake City, UT Established 1978 1,300 miles long Fact BoxNatchez Trace TrailNashville, TN to Natchez, MS 440 miles Fact BoxNorth Country Trail
Crown Point, NY-Lake Sakakawea, ND 4,600 miles long Fact BoxOld Spanish TrailSanta Fe, NM to Los Angeles, CA 1,200 miles long Fact BoxOregon TrailMissouri-Oregon 2,000 miles Fact BoxOvermountain Victory TrailElizabethton, TN- Kings Mountain Nat. Mil. Park, SC 214 miles long Fact BoxPony Express TrailSt. Joseph, MO- Sacramento, CA Fact BoxSanta Fe TrailFranklin, MO- Santa Fe, NM
Fact BoxSelma to Montgomery TrailSelma, AL- Montgomery, AL 51 miles long Fact BoxStar Spangled Banner TrailTangier Island, VA- Baltimore, MD 290 miles long Established 2008 Fact BoxTrail of Tears TrailMississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama- Oklahoma Other Protected Areas (first page) |