National Parks
Established in 1827, this national park is located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho and holds the title of being the very first national park in the U.S.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
The highest point along the Appalachian Trial is located on the Tennessee/North Carolina border and stands 6,643 feet.
What is Clingmans Dome?
Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in western Kentucky, this Kentucky State Park is home to a 6-ton anchor, which was stretched across the river during the Civil War to prevent river traffic.
What is Columbus-Belmont State Park?
This state has more miles of running water than any other state in the contiguous US.
What is Kentucky?
It is also the only U.S. commonwealth bordered by three major rivers on three sides: the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Big Sandy
What are the Redwood Trees in Redwood National Forest?
Located on the west coast, this state is home to the most national parks.
What is California? (9)
Located in Alaska, this mountain peak rises 20,310 feet and its name means "the tall one".
What is Denali?
Located between Louisville and Cincinnati, this state park once held the distinction of the only place to snow ski in the state of Kentucky.
What is General Butler State Resort Park?
Stretching nearly 2,341 miles from Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River near St. Louis, this river is the longest in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
This thunderous trio of waterfalls dumps millions of cubic feet of water over the precipice every minute.
What is Niagara Falls?
Located on the border of two states, this national park is the most visited in the nation.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, located on the Tennessee and North Carolina border?
As the highest peak in Kentucky at 4, 4145 feet, Big Black Mountain is located in this county near the Virginia state line.
What is Harlan County?
Known as the "Niagara of the South", this Kentucky State Park's waterfall is one of only a few places in the world that produces a "moonbow" (a lunar rainbow) during a full moon.
What is Cumberland Falls State Park?
Due to its size, this states has over 12,000 named rivers.
What is Alaska?
This natural wonder, divides the continental US and separates the watersheds with rainfall on the west flowing to the Pacific Ocean and rain on the east flows towards the Atlantic.
What is the Great Divide?
Featuring over 426 miles of trails, this national park opened as a tourist attraction in 1816 and is the world's longest known cave system.
What is Mammoth Cave National Park?
Located in the Black Mountains of Western North Carolina, at 6,684 feet it is the highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Located on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital, this Kentucky State Park is named after the father of Diane Sawyer. He was a former County Judge Executive of Jefferson County.
What is EP "Tom" Sawyer State Park?
This canal was completed in 1825 and connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean (via the Hudson River). It is also the longest canal in the US.
What is the Erie Canal?
Carved by the Colorado River, this natural wonder stretches 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Known as the Gateway to the West, this national park is the smallest national park in the US with only 91 acres.
What is the Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis?
Located outside Portland, Oregon, this mountain peak exploded on March 27, 1980 causing its height to go from its original height of 9,677 feet to 8,300 feet.
What is Mount St. Helens?
Located in eastern Kentucky, this park features "Chained Rock", a massive boulder perched on a mountain ridge and chained to prevent the rock from theoretically "rolling down on the town".
What is Pine Mountain Stare Resort Park? The Civilian Conservation Corps attached the chain in 1933.
The largest inland peninsula in the US is a 170,000 acre recreation area formed in 1963 with the creation of Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley in Western Kentucky and West Tennessee.
What is Land Between the Lakes?
Known as "the River of Grass", this massive slow-moving river for fresh water spans 50 miles wide but flows at a rate of only about 1/4 mile a day.
What are the Everglades?