Your Favorite National Park (living, cabin, move)

[illinoisboy]

Out of the ones you have been to, which one(s) did you like the most and why?

Try to post pictures!

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

The Great Smokey Mountains National Park is my favorite, oh the beauty there is amazing. I love the mountains, the streams, the hiking trails.

[tonrob]

Canyonlands - breathtaking scenery. Prefer it to Grand Canyon.

[Easybreezy]

Acadia National Park, where the mountains meet the sea. I don't think there's a square inch that's not beautiful there.

[Widowmaker2k]

Wow, it's really hard to pick just one. So many good ones come to mind: Crater Lake, Channel Islands, Death Valley, Rocky Mountain, Hawaii Volcanoes (where I was actually able to poke flowing lava with a stick!), etc...

So, I'm going to have to pick two that are very near each other and call them one...
Yosemite (not a hard decision) and Kings Canyon/Sequoia.
Pictures -
Yosemite:
It's hard to argue with Ansel Adams


Cathedral Peak in Yosemite's back country


Toulumne Meadows (also Yosemite back country). Big sky country?
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wA8V6XdkR2E/RanNBKOTm-I/AAAAAAAAATc/jRxqAUe8X5Q/Tuolumne+Meadows+Sunset+Reflection.jpg (broken link)


Kings Canyon/Sequoia:
General Sherman, the largest living thing on the planet (it's nearly 300 feet tall, and 105 feet around at the base). This image was pulled off google images, no idea who the people playing on it are.
http://justinsomnia.org/gallery/d/4460-2/IMG_8915.jpg (broken link)

Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states.



The Palisades, Kings Canyon

http://www.wadih-ghsoubi.com/Nature/1/original/Dusy%20Basin%20and%20the%20Palisades,%20Kings%20Ca nyon%20National%20Park,%20Ca.jpg (broken link)

[JoshB]

Apostle Islands, WI

Great Smoky Mountains, TN

Those parks out west do look beautiful though. I will have to check them out.

[JMT]

I honestly don't think I can name just ONE favorite national park. Our country is blessed to have the most beautiful, most extensive and most accessible national park system on the planet. Each park showcases some spectacular scenery.

Of course I love the Great Smoky Mountains here in TN/NC, and apparently I'm not alone since it's the most popular national park in the country.

But then I go to Canyonlands, Zions and Arches in Utah, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, or Yosemite in California, or Yellowstone in Wyoming, even the Everglades in Florida. I honestly cannot say which one I think is the most beautiful because they are all so completely different and move me in different ways.

I would dearly love to go to Arcadia in Maine.

I suppose since I live next door to the Great Smoky Mountains and have a cabin up in the mountains right next to the park, that'll be my favorite. I'm going rock climbing in a couple of weeks up in the Smokies, and the view from the top always moves me to tears.

[Bydand]

All the National parks I have been to have their merits. The least favorite is Arcadia because of the number if tourists that flock there every summer. I do like going there in the off season though. Other than that, I like them all, but have a fondness for Isle Royale N.P. in Lake Superior. Probably because of the LACK of the people crush there during any season.

All of them are uncommonly beautiful. Each has a different feel to it, and each are prime examples of the type of wilderness they are trying to protect and portray for the public.

[JoshB]

Originally Posted by Bydand

All the National parks I have been to have their merits. The least favorite is Arcadia because of the number if tourists that flock there every summer. I do like going there in the off season though. Other than that, I like them all, but have a fondness for Isle Royale N.P. in Lake Superior. Probably because of the LACK of the people crush there during any season.

All of them are uncommonly beautiful. Each has a different feel to it, and each are prime examples of the type of wilderness they are trying to protect and portray for the public.

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Great post!

[seattlerain]

Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State
Glacier National Park, Montana