225 parks for Self-Guided Tours - Walking
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National Park
Crater Lake National Park
Oregon
Crater Lake inspires awe. Native Americans witnessed its formation 7,700 years ago, when a violent eruption triggered the collapse of a tall peak. Scientists marvel…
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Memorial
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
District of Columbia
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial tells the story of one of America's greatest leaders of the 20th century.
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National Historical Reserve
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve
Washington
This stunning landscape on the Salish Sea, with its rich farmland and promising seaport, lured the earliest American pioneers north of the Columbia River to Ebey’s L…
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National Historic Site
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower National Historic Site preserves the farm of General and 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Adjacent to the Gettysburg battlefield, the farm served the…
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National Monument
El Malpais National Monument
New Mexico
The richly diverse volcanic landscape of El Malpais (el-mal-pie-EES) offers solitude, recreation, and adventure. Explore incredible geologic features such as young l…
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National Monument
El Morro National Monument
New Mexico
Imagine the refreshment of finding water after days of dusty travel. A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro (the headland) a popu…
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Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
New Jersey, New York
Millions of Americans and people around the world have ancestors who came through Ellis Island. The Main Immigration Building was the epicenter of one of the greates…
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National Park
Everglades National Park
Florida
Established in 1947 as the first national park created for its biodiversity, Everglades National Park protects 1.5 million acres of wetland, forest, and marine habit…
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National Memorial
Federal Hall National Memorial
New York
Here at Federal Hall, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States, marking the beginning of the American constitutional rep…
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National Memorial
Flight 93 National Memorial
Pennsylvania
On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground. Nearly 3,00…
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National Monument
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Colorado
Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wi…
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National Historic Site
Fort Davis National Historic Site
Texas
Fort Davis is one of the best surviving examples of an Indian Wars' frontier military post in the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located…
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National Historic Site
Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Wyoming
Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best-known military post on the Northern Plains before its ab…
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National Historic Site
Fort Larned National Historic Site
Kansas
Discover a complete and authentic army post from the 1860s -1870s! This well-preserved fort on the Santa Fe Trail shares a tumultuous history of the Indian Wars era.…
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National Monument and Historic Shrine
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Maryland
by the dawn's early light, a large red, white and blue banner? Whose broad stripes and bright stars... were so gallantly streaming...over Fort McHenry! The valiant d…
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National Monument
Fort Monroe National Monument
Virginia
Fort Monroe's story spans from prehistory to the 2000s. Kecoughtan Indians occupied Old Point Comfort before the arrival of English colonists. The first enslaved Afr…
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National Battlefield
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
Pennsylvania
The battle at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the opening action of the French and Indian War. This war was a clash of British, French and American Indian c…
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National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Georgia
For much of the 19th century, masonry fortifications were the United States’ main defense against overseas enemies. However, during the Civil War, new technology pro…
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National Historic Site
Fort Smith National Historic Site
Arkansas, Oklahoma
Explore life on the edge of frontier and Indian Territory through the stories of soldiers, the Trail of Tears, scandals, outlaws, and lawmen who pursued them. From t…
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National Monument
Fort Stanwix National Monument
New York
For centuries, the Oneida Carrying Place, a six-mile portage connecting the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, served as a vital link for those traveling by water from the…
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National Historical Park
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
South Carolina
Two forts stand at the entrance of Charleston Harbor. Patriots inside a palmetto log fort, later named Fort Moultrie, defeated the Royal Navy in 1776. As Charleston…
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National Monument
Fort Union National Monument
New Mexico
Exposed to the wind, within a sweeping valley of short grass prairie, and along the eroded Santa Fe Trail, lie the adobe walled ruins of the largest 19th century mil…
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National Historic Site
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Montana, North Dakota
Between 1828 and 1867, Fort Union was the most important fur trade post on the Upper Missouri River. Here, the Assiniboine and six other Northern Plains Tribes excha…
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National Park Service site
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
District of Columbia
These words by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ushered the United States into World War II and defined what it is to be an American. Stop by this secluded memori…
