Mid-Pacific – Worth it Places

“From sea to shining sea”

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

California

Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park — Yosemite National Park

1. Yosemite National Park (a World Heritage Site; El Capitan – America the Beautiful quarter image)

2. Redwood National and State Parks (a World Heritage Site)

Zumwalt Meadow Trail, Kings Canyon National Park

3-4. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

5. San Francisco (including San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and nearby Rosie The Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park; Golden Gate National Recreation Area – part of the Central California Current [see Point Reyes for full details], which is on the World Heritage Tentative List)

6. Death Valley National Park and Preserve

7. Joshua Tree National Park

8. Channel Islands National Park

9. Los Angeles (including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House – part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)

Balconies Trail - Cliffs and Caves, Pinnacles National Park — Balconies Trail – Cliffs and Caves, Pinnacles National Park

10. Pinnacles National Park

Garrapata State Park, Big Sur Coast, California State Route 1

11. Big Sur Coast

12. Monterey, Salinas, and the California Mission Trail (including Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary – part of the Central California Current [see Point Reyes for full details], which is on the World Heritage Tentative List)

Joshua Trees, Mojave National Preserve – part of Inland Empire

13. Inland Empire and California’s portion of old Route 66

Hawaii

1. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (a World Heritage Site; Kīlauea – America the Beautiful quarter image)

2. Haleakalā National Park

3. Hana Highway

4. Honolulu (Pearl Harbor – World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, ʻIolani Palace State Monument, Waikiki Beach and Waikiki Historic Trail, Diamond Head State Monument, and Polynesian Cultural Center)

5. Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail

American Samoa

(U.S. Territory)

1. National Park of American Samoa (America the Beautiful quarter image)

2. Marine Protected Areas of American Samoa (National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa – formerly known as the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument and Wildlife Refuge) – World Heritage Tentative List

Guam

(U.S. Territory)

Honorable mention: War in the Pacific National Historical Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)

Northern Mariana Islands

(U.S. Territory)

Honorable mentions:

Marianas Trench Marine National Monument – World Heritage Tentative List

American Memorial Park on Saipan (America the Beautiful quarter image)