Category Ranking
Best National Parks for Stargazing in Fall
Top parks for stargazing during fall, ranked by a composite of activity quality and seasonal conditions.
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Gateway Arch National Park
Gateway Arch National Park is 0.14 square miles of westward expansion history beneath a 630-foot steel monument with three million visitors.
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Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs' 143-degree thermal water flows through historic bathhouses where health seekers once shared sidewalks with gangsters.
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park
The Ohio & Erie Canal towpath runs 20 miles along the Cuyahoga River, past 65-foot Brandywine Falls and glacial rock ledges.
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Everglades National Park
America's largest subtropical wilderness: a slow-moving river creating sawgrass marshes, mangrove islands, and alligator habitat.
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Congaree National Park
The largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the Southeast protects champion trees you'll reach via elevated boardwalk.
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Mammoth Cave National Park
The world's longest cave system: over 400 miles mapped, lies beneath Kentucky's limestone plateau, explored for over 200 years.
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Biscayne National Park
Miami's skyline floats on the horizon while you snorkel over the continental United States' only living coral reef system.
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Indiana Dunes National Park
Lake Michigan's wind built these dunes into the park system's highest plant biodiversity: over 1,100 species on 15 miles of Indiana shore.
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Pinnacles National Park
Volcanic spires rise above talus caves where you can crawl through darkness on designated routes. Half of Yosemite's crowds.
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Two active volcanoes shape terrain from tide pools to alpine desert. Walk across recent lava flows and through rainforests on ancient rock.
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