Whenever you visit the national parks of the USA, spectacular natural wonders are seen. Whether you are working on your bucket list – ‘Climb the highest mountain in North America!’ – Or simply want to embrace the world’s largest living tree, you can explore the extreme extremes of nature in these record-setting US National Parks. So hurry up and book your Delta Airlines tickets through Delta Airlines Reservations.
Water, Everywhere
Looking for the highest waterfall in North America? Head to Yosemite National Park, California, where the triple-decker waterfall of Yosemite Falls joins a snowy carved valley of 2425 feet. One of the 10 highest waterfalls in the world, Yosemite Falls flows in late spring, when snow from the mountain peaks melts as it falls in the Yosemite Valley, described by conservationist John Muir as a temple of nature.
Equally impressive are Miracle Springs Geysers of Yellowstone National Park, shared between the states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. There are more geysers than anywhere else on the planet, with superhits of underground volcanic rocks bubbling from the water to the surface in hot springs, fumaroles, and rowing pottery. The Old Faithful, the park’s best-known geyser, eats more regularly than any other geyser on Earth, spreading over 100 feet to 8400 gallons of water per hour or two, day and night.
Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, close to the West Coast, is the deepest lake in the United States. The amazing clarity of the 1943 feet deep crater lake formed by the rain in the extinct volcano Caldera makes you instantly reach for your camera. From the roadside, view climb the crater rim or head down to Cleetwood Cove, where you can catch a boat trip to Wizard Island, the volcanic cinder cone above the surface of the lake looks like an enchanted lost world.
From Snowy Peaks to Hot Areas
With global climate change accelerating, if you want to see North America’s largest collection of glaciers, you’d better hurry. Of the 25 large glaciers remaining in Montana’s Glacier National Park, many are expected to melt by 2030. You are heading north to Mirchi Alaska, where Glacier Bay National Park and Wrangel-St Elias National Park have been preserved as UNESCO Worlds. Heritage Site. The number of glaciers dating from the Little Ice Age – including some record-breakers that flow up to 75 miles or have become 3000 feet thick – is uncountable.
At an elevation of 20,030 feet, Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) – an Etabaskan word meaning ‘the high forest’ – dominates the epic landscape of Denali National Park. If you can’t travel that far, Sequoia National Park in California offers the chance to climb Mount Whitney (14,505 feet), the highest peak in the lower 48 states. Rising over the Sierra Nevada Range, the summit of Mount Whitney – with its views of craggy granite peaks, not to mention head-spinning heights – can take your breath away, literally. Sequoia National Park is also the largest living tree in the world, a huge sequoia that is more than 100 feet away.
Less than 140 miles from Mount Whitney you will find the lowest elevation in North America: Badwater. Covering an area of approximately 200 square miles of Death Valley National Park, Badwater is one of the largest salt flats in the world. Once a prehistoric lake, this dry place is now located at an elevation of 282 feet above sea level. Death Valley also holds an unmatched record of being the hottest place in the United States, with the temperature at Furnace Creek reaching 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
Here are some more hot things for you: Hawaii’s Volcano National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii avoids the world’s longest-lasting continuous volcanic eruption since 1983 – lasting more than 10,000 days until May 2018. The miracle lake of lava and the flashing current have probably stopped for now, but there are still many other scenic spots in this unique atmosphere. You can see what the volcano is doing on the National Park Service’s website.
Where there are more wild wonders
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is also famous for its walk-through lava tubes. But die spelunkers should return to the mainland instead of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park.
If in fact, the wonders of biodiversity have hooked you, you might want to fly to Everglades National Park in South Florida, another World Heritage site, and the largest subtropical wilderness in North America. See a flock of pink flamingos with their crystal rays and sharp-toothed crocodiles and crocodiles swim along the glassy rivers.
Otherwise, if going deep into the bowels of the Earth, which attracts you the most, hit the road to Grand Canyon National Park. Although not the deepest valley in North America, it is curved more than 275 miles along the Colorado River. Descending into the depth of pastel-paint of the canyon at sunset over a mile high is a scene that is hard to beat.