Proposed National Parks

Northwest

Alaska

    1. Admiralty Island National Park – Admiralty Island National Monument (USFS)
    2. Aniakchak National Park – Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
    3. Arctic National Park – Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    4. Becharof National Park – Becharof National Wildlife Refuge
    5. Bering Land Bridge National Park – Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
    6. Cape Krusenstern National Park – Cape Krusenstern National Monument
    7. Kodiak National Park – Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    8. Misty Fjords National Park – Misty Fjords National Monument (USFS)
    9. Noatak National Park – Noatak National Preserve
    10. Tongass National Park – Mendenhall Glacier area at Tongass National Forest
    11. Yukon-Charley Rivers National Park – Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
    12. Yukon Flats National Park – Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (former Yukon Flats National Monument)

Washington

    1. Ebey’s Landing National Park – Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve
    2. The Enchantments National Park – Wenatchee National Forest and Snoqualmie National Forest (USFS)
    3. Mount Baker National Park – Mount Baker National Recreation Area – Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
    4. Mount Saint Helens National Park – Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument (USFS)

Oregon

    1. Columbia River Gorge National Park – Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (USFS)
    2. Douglas Fir National Park – parts of Willamette National Forest and adjacent BLM land, including Mount Jefferson Wilderness area and Quartzville Creek Wild and Scenic River (douglasfirnationalmonument.org) (USFS)
    3. Painted Hills National Park – John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
    4. Mount Hood National Park – Mount Hood National Forest (USFS)
    5. Oregon Caves National Park – Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
    6. Oregon Dunes National Park – Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area (USFS)
    7. Owyhee Canyonlands, OR – located in southeastern Oregon (wildowyhee.org)

Idaho

    1. Bitterroot National Park – Bitterroot National Forest, Clearwater National Forest, Lolo National Forest, and Nez Perce National Forest (USFS)
    2. City of Rocks National Park – City of Rocks National Reserve
    3. Craters of the Moon National Park – Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
    4. Hells Canyon National Park – Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (USFS)
    5. River of No Return National Park – Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (USFS)
    6. Sawtooth National Park – Sawtooth National Recreation Area (USFS)

Montana

    1. Absaroka-Beartooth National Park – Gallatin National Forest, Custer National Forest, and Shoshone National Forest (USFS)
    2. Lolo-Flathead National Park – Bob Marshall Wilderness – Lolo National Forest, Flathead National Forest, Helena National Forest, and Lewis and Clark National Forest (USFS)
    3. Montana Northern Prairie National Park – located in eastern central Montana (also called Northern Great Plains)
    4. Rattlesnake Mountains National Park – Rattlesnake National Recreation Area (USFS)
    5. Rocky Mountain Front National Park – located in western central Montana, next to the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area (savethefront.org)
    6. Upper Missouri River Breaks National Park – Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (BLM)

Mid-Pacific

Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Joshua Trees, Mojave National Preserve
Mojave National Preserve

California

    1. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest National Park – Inyo National Forest (USFS)
    2. Berryessa Snow Mountain National Park – Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument (USFS-BLM)
    3. Bodie Hills National Park – adjacent to Bodie State Historic Park (Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership: bodiehills.org; Friends of the Inyo: friendsoftheinyo.org)
    4. Carrizo Plain National Park – Carrizo Plain National Monument (BLM)
    5. Golden Gate National Park – Golden Gate National Recreation Area
    6. Klamath-Siskiyou National Park (a.k.a. Ancient Forest National Park; shared with Oregon)(ancientforestnationalpark.org) (USFS)
        • Smith River National Recreation Area
        • Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
        • Klamath National Forest
        • Shasta-Trinity National Forest
        • Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (mostly in Oregon)
    7. Modoc Lava Beds National Park – Modoc National Forest (USFS) and Lava Beds National Monument
    8. Mojave National Park – Mojave National Preserve (NPS) and Mojave Trails National Monument (BLM)
    9. Point Reyes National Park – Point Reyes National Seashore
    10. Sand to Snow National Park – Sand to Snow National Monument (USFS-BLM)
    11. Santa Monica Mountains National Park – Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
    12. Sierra National Park (a.k.a. Range of Light) – located between Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks (Unite the Parks: unitetheparks.org) (USFS)

Hawaii

    1. Papahānaumokuākea National Park – Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (FWS-NOAA) – a World Heritage Site

Rocky Mountains

Wyoming

    1. Red Desert National Park
    2. Wind River Range National Park
Green River, Dinosaur National Monument
Green River, Dinosaur National Monument
Red Mountain Mining District, San Juan Mountains, Ouray County, along U.S. Route 550 (the Million Dollar Highway)
Red Mountain Mining District, San Juan Mountains, Ouray County, along U.S. Route 550 (the Million Dollar Highway)

Colorado

    1. Arapaho National Park – Arapaho National Recreation Area (USFS)
    2. Colorado Canyons National Park – Colorado National Monument
    3. Dinosaur National Park – Dinosaur National Monument
    4. Hidden Gems National Park – White River National Forest (facebook.com/hidden-gems-wilderness-campaign) (USFS)
    5. Maroon Bells-Snowmass National Park – Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness (USFS)
    6. San Juan Mountains National Park – San Juan National Forest (USFS)
    7. Vermillion Basin National Park
Bears Ears National Monument
Bears Ears National Monument
San Rafael Swell
San Rafael Swell

Utah

    1. Bears Ears National Park – Bears Ears National Monument (USFS-BLM)
    2. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Park – Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (BLM)
    3. Greater Canyonlands, UT (suwa.org; utahpli.com Utah Public Lands Initiative)
    4. Quaking Aspen National Park – Pando “The Trembling Giant” quaking aspen grove at Fishlake National Forest (USFS)
    5. San Rafael Swell National Park
    6. Wasatch National Park (saveourcanyons.org)

Nevada

    1. Avi Kwa Ame National Park – west of Spirit Mountain Wilderness and east of Mojave National Preserve (honorspiritmountain.org)
    2. Basin and Range National Park – Basin and Range National Monument (BLM)
    3. Gold Butte National Park – Gold Butte National Monument (BLM)
    4. Pronghorn National Park – currently Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge (OR), Sheldon National Antelope Refuge (NV), and Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge (NV) (onda.org/hart-sheldon) (FWS)
    5. Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Park – Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Southwest

Painted Desert near Grand Canyon
Painted Desert near Grand Canyon

Arizona

    1. Chiricahua National Park – Chiricahua National Monument
    2. Grand Canyon–Parashant National Park – Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument
    3. Great Bend of the Gila National Park – located southwest of Phoenix (savingplaces.org/places/greatbendofthegila)
    4. Greater Grand Canyon National Park – adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park (grandcanyontrust.org)
    5. Ironwood Forest National Park – Ironwood Forest National Monument (BLM)
    6. Organ Pipe Cactus National Park – Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
    7. Red Rock National Park – Sedona Verde Valley Red Rock (SVVRRNM.org) (USFS)
    8. Sonoran Desert National Park – Sonoran Desert National Monument (BLM)
    9. Sunset Crater Volcano National Park – Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
    10. Vermilion Cliffs National Park – Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
    11. Walnut Canyon National Park – Walnut Canyon National Monument
    12. Wupatki National Park – Wupatki National Monument

New Mexico

    1. El Malpais National Park – El Malpais National Monument
    2. Gila National Park – Gila National Forest (shared with Arizona)
    3. Jemez National Park – Jemez National Recreation Area
    4. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Park – Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument (BLM)
    5. Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Park – Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument (BLM)
    6. Otero Mesa National Park – located in south central New Mexico (oteromesa.org) (wildmesquite.org)
    7. Prairie Chicken National Park – located in southeastern New Mexico
    8. Rio Grande del Norte National Park – Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (BLM)
    9. Valles Caldera National Park – Valles Caldera National Preserve

Texas

    1. Big Thicket National Park – Big Thicket National Preserve
    2. Castner Range National Park – located north of El Paso – adjacent to Franklin Mountains State Park (texas.gov/fmsp), currently Castner Range Fort Bliss Military Reservation – assigned to be partially opened to the public (castnerrangenationalmonument.org)
    3. Padre Island National Park – Padre Island National Seashore
    4. Piney Woods National Park
Santa Fe Trail Shortgrass Prairie
Santa Fe Trail Shortgrass Prairie in Kansas

Oklahoma

    1. Buffalo Roam National Park – Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    2. Salt Plains National Park – Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    3. Shortgrass Prairie National Park (shared between Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico)
    4. Winding Stair Mountain National Park – Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area (USFS)

Great Plains

Little Missouri River
Little Missouri River, North Dakota

North Dakota

    1. Dakota Prairie Grasslands National Park
      • Cedar River National Grassland (ND – USFS)
      • Little Missouri National Grassland (ND – USFS)
      • Sheyenne National Grassland (ND – USFS)
      • Grand River National Grassland (SD – USFS)

South Dakota

    1. Black Hills National Park – Black Hills National Forest (USFS)
    2. Mammoth Site National Park
Nebraska Sandhills
Nebraska Sandhills

Nebraska

    1. Nebraska Sandhills National Park – Bessey Ranger District of Nebraska National Forest (USFS)
    2. Oglala National Park – Oglala National Grassland and Toadstool Geological Park (USFS)
    3. Pine Ridge National Park – Nebraska National Forest and Pine Ridge National Recreation Area (USFS)
Monument Rocks (Chalk Pyramids)
Monument Rocks (Chalk Pyramids), Kansas Badlands
West Traps Pasture
West Traps Pasture, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Kansas

    1. Monument Rocks National Park
    2. Tallgrass Prairie National Park – Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Iowa

    1. Driftless Rivers National Park – Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    2. Effigy Mounds National Park – Effigy Mounds National Monument

Missouri

    1. Great Confluence National Park – Illinois River confluence with Mississippi River and along the Mississippi River to its confluence with the Missouri River
    2. Ozark Riverways National Park – Ozark National Scenic Riverway – Alley Mill

Great Lakes

Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Miners Castle, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan
Sleeping Bear Point and Glen Lake overlook from trail along Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

Michigan

    1. Nordhouse Dunes National Park – Manistee National Forest wilderness and recreation area (USFS)
    2. Pictured Rocks National Park
    3. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park – Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Wisconsin

    1. Apostle Island National Park – Apostle Island National Lakeshore
    2. Chequamegon National Park (a.k.a. North Woods National Park) – Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest & Ottawa National Forest (Michigan)

Minnesota

    1. Boundary Waters National Park – Superior National Forest (USFS)
    2. Upper Mississippi River National Park – Mississippi National River and Recreation Area

Illinois

    1. Garden of the Gods National Park – Shawnee National Forest (USFS)
    2. Midewin Tallgrass Prairie, IL – Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (USFS)

Indiana

Place Trail Marsh
Place Trail Marsh, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, Indiana
    1. Grand Kankakee National Park

Ohio

    1. Lake Erie Watershed National Park
    2. Wayne Forest National Park – Wayne National Forest, including the Covered Bridge Scenic Byway (USFS)

Northeast

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

Maine

    1. Moosehorn National Park – Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
    2. North Woods National Park – a greater Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument

New Hampshire

    1. Umbagog National Park – Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge
    2. White Mountains National Park – White Mountains National Forest (USFS)

Vermont

Green Mountains
Green Mountains
    1. Green Mountains National Park – Green Mountains National Forest (USFS)
      • Moosalamoo National Recreation Area (USFS)
      • White Rocks National Recreation Area (USFS)

Massachusetts

    1. Freedom National Park
      • Boston Freedom Trail
      • Boston National Historical Park
      • Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
    2. Cape Cod National Park – Cape Cod National Seashore
    3. Great Meadows National Park – Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)

Rhode Island

    1. Battle of Rhode Island National Historic Site, RI (significant encroachment by development)
    2. Block Island National Park – Block Island National Wildlife Refuge

Connecticut

    1. Quinebaug-Shetucket National Park – Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor (“The Last Green Valley”)
    2. Upper Housatonic Valley National Park – Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

New York

    1. Fire Island National Park – Fire Island National Seashore
    2. Hudson River Valley National Park (Thomas Cole National Historic Site of the Hudson River School)
    3. Liberty National Park
      • Statue of Liberty (a World Heritage Site) (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument)
      • Ellis Island (World Heritage Tentative List) (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument)
      • Gateway National Recreation Area

Mid-Atlantic

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Pennsylvania

    1. Allegheny National Park – Allegheny National Recreation Area (USFS)
    2. Delaware Water Gap National Park – Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
    3. Independence National Park – Independence National Historical Park

New Jersey

    1. Pine Barrens National Park – New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve

Delaware

    1. Bombay Hook National Park – Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Maryland

    1. Assateague Island National Park – Assateague Island National Seashore
    2. Mason Dixon Line National Historical Park (shared with Pennsylvania) – Pen Mar Park area
World War II Memorial
Washington Monument and World War II Memorial on the National Mall
Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson Memorial

Washington, DC

    1. Capital National Park – National Mall & Memorial Parks
      • Constitution Gardens
      • Ellipse
      • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
      • Korean War Veterans Memorial
      • Lafayette Park
      • Lincoln Memorial
      • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
      • National Mall
      • Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Park
      • President’s Park – White House Grounds
      • Thomas Jefferson Memorial
      • Vietnam Veterans Memorial
      • Washington Monument
      • World War I Memorial
      • World War II Memorial
    2. Fredrick Douglas National Historical Park
      • Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
      • Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge
      • Anacostia Park
      • Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens

Virginia

    1. Blue Ridge National Park
      • Blue Ridge Parkway
      • George Washington National Forest
    2. Great Dismal Swamp National Park – Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    3. Jefferson Forest National Park
      • Jefferson National Forest (USFS)
      • Mount Rogers National Recreation Area

West Virginia

    1. Monongahela National Park (a.k.a. Birthplace of Rivers National Park or High Allegheny National Park) – located in eastern West Virginia/Monongahela National Forest (BirthplaceofRivers.org)
    2. Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Park – Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area

South Central

Kentucky

    1. Land Between the Lakes National Park – Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
    2. Red River Gorge National Park – Red River Gorge Geological Area of Daniel Boone National Forest (USFS)

Tennessee

    1. Big South Fork National Park – Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (NPS)
    2. Cherokee Forest National Park – Cherokee National Forest (USFS)

Arkansas

    1. Buffalo River National Park – Buffalo National River
    2. Ouachita Mountains National Park – Ouachita National Forest (USFS)
    3. Ozark Mountains National Park – Ozark National Forest (USFS)

Louisiana

    1. Atchafalaya National Park – Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    2. Barataria National Park – Barataria Preserve (part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve)
    3. Kisatchie National Park – Kisatchie National Forest

Mississippi

    1. Gulf Islands National Park – Gulf Islands National Seashore
    2. Mississippi Delta National Historical Park – Music sites/Mississippi Blues Trail: U.S. Highway 61 “Blues Highway”, GRAMMY Museum Mississippi, Delta Blues Museum, B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center

Alabama

    1. Little River Canyon National Park – Little River Canyon National Preserve
    2. Talladega National Park – Talladega National Forest (USFS)
    3. Tuskegee National Park – Tuskegee National Forest (USFS)
    4. Mobile-Tensaw Delta National Park (National Natural Landmark)

Southeast

North Carolina

    1. Alligator River National Park – Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    2. Nantahala National Park – Nantahala National Forest (USFS)
    3. Outer Banks National Park
      • Cape Hatteras National Seashore
      • Cape Lookout National Seashore
    4. Pisgah Forest National Park – Pisgah National Forest (USFS)

South Carolina

    1. Gullah-Geechee Lowcountry National Park – Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

Georgia

    1. Blackbeard Island National Park – Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    2. Chattahoochee River National Park – Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
    3. Cumberland Island National Park – Cumberland Island National Seashore
    4. Okefenokee National Park – Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (FWS)
    5. Springer Mountain National Park – Chattahoochee National Forest (USFS)

Florida

    1. Apalachee Big Bend National Park – Big Bend Wildlife Management Area (FWS)
    2. Apalachicola National Park – Apalachicola National Forest (USFS)
    3. Big Cypress National Park – Big Cypress National Preserve
    4. Canaveral National Park – Canaveral National Seashore
    5. Timucuan National Park – Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve

Puerto Rico

U.S. Territory

    1. El Yunque National Park – El Yunque National Forest (USFS)
    2. Vieques National Park (Bioluminescent Bay)

U.S. Virgin Islands

U.S. Territory

    1. Buck Island Reef National Park – Buck Island Reef National Monument
    2. Salt River Bay National Park – Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
    3. Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Park – Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument