Oops I forgot to post my list. (Just the parks, maybe I’ll add a supplemental monument list):
Acadia
Arches
Badlands
Big Bend
Biscayne
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Carlsbad Caverns
Crater Lake
Congaree
Death Valley
Dry Tortugas
Everglades
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Great Basin
Great Sand Dunes
Great Smoky Mountains
Guadalupe Mountains
Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Joshua Tree
Kings Canyon
Lassen Volcanic
Mammoth Cave
Mesa Verde
Mount Rainier
Olympic
Petrified Forest
Redwood
Rocky Mountain
Saguaro
Sequoia
Theodore Roosevelt
Wind Cave
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion
I’ll have to check my memory for US national parks, but I may be the only SDMB poster to have been to this one!
Switzerland’s National Park
What was special about it - beautiful mountain scenery and one of the rare places where you can go for a day’s walk in the mountains of Switzerland without seeing any sign of human habitation at all.
P.S. I learned from reading this thread and checking with Wikipedia that one of the “parks” I tell people I have on my list, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the St. Louis Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion below it) is not a National Park after all. I always thought it was.
Oz:
Royal National Park
Blue Mountains National Park
The Grampians National Park
Otway National Park
Stirling Range National Park
Nambung National Park
Walpole-Nornalup National Park
OK, if you just list the national parks, its pretty wimpy
Crater Lake NP, 1961
Yellowstone NP, even stayed overnight, but that was in 1966
Glacier NP, rode through on the train in 2004
But in the other “nationals”
Oregon Caves National Monument 1961
Fr. McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine 1966
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument 2004
Independence National Historical Park 1966
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site 1966
Gettysburg National Military Park 1966
Lincoln Memorial 1966
Jefferson Memorial 1966
Arlington National Cemetery 1966
National Mall 1966
I do, however, live in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area…
I knew there were a few. The in-laws gave me a NPS book Christmas and I was a little surprised going through it to see how many I’d visited. Being a geologist, between field trips and work you have the opportunity to hit a few.
Acadia
Agate Fossil Beds
Alaska Public Lands
Alcatraz Island
Alibates Flint Quarries
Antietam
Appalachian
Arches
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
Aztec Ruins
Badlands
Bandelier
Bent’s Old Fort
Big Bend
Big Cypress
Big Thicket
Black Canyon Of The Gunnison
Blue Ridge
Bryce Canyon
Canyon De Chelly
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Capulin Volcano
Carlsbad Caverns
Casa Grande Ruins
Cedar Breaks
Chaco Culture
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Colorado
Denali
Dinosaur
Everglades
Florissant Fossil Beds
Ford’s Theatre
Fort Davis
Fort Sumter
Fossil Butte
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gates Of The Arctic
George Washington Birthplace
Gettysburg
Glacier
Glacier Bay
Glen Canyon
Golden Gate
Golden Spike
Grand Canyon
Great Basin
Great Sand Dunes
Great Smoky Mountains
Guadalupe Mountains
Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Hovenweep
Jamestown
Jefferson
John F Kennedy
John Muir
Joshua Tree
Kenai Fjords
Kings Canyon
Klondike Gold Rush
Korean War Veterans
Lake Mead
Lake Meredith
Lava Beds
Lewis & Clark
Lincoln
Lyndon B Johnson
Manassas
Mesa Verde
Mojave
Mount Rainier
Muir Woods
Natchez Trace
National Aviation
National Mall
Natural Bridges
Navajo
Olympic
Oregon
Organ Pipe Cactus
Ozark
Padre Island
Pecos
Petrified Forest
Petroglyph
Pictured Rocks
President’s Park (White House)
Presidio of San Francisco
Rainbow Bridge
Redwood
Rio Grande
Rocky Mountain
Saguaro
Sand Creek Massacre
Santa Fe
Sequoia & Kings Canyon
Shenandoah
Shiloh
Sitka
Statue Of Liberty
Sunset Crater Volcano
Tallgrass Prairie
Thomas Jefferson
U S S Arizona
Valley Forge
Vietnam Veterans
Washington
White Sands
World War II Memorial
Wrangell - St Elias
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Yucca House
Yukon - Charley Rivers
Zion