Fun Facts
This National Park is covered by 2,000 square miles of glaciers and there are no roads that lead to it.
Glacier Bay National Park
This John Denver song was inspired by this national park located in Colorado.
Rocky Mountain High
Jackson Lake is located in this national park.
Grand Teton
Which Great Lake is the largest?
Lake Superior
Which city is known as the "Mile High City"?
Denver
This National Park is located in southeast Utah and contains rocks that History.com have estimated to be as much as 270 million years old.
Capitol Reef
Name this popular song by Woody Guthrie that states "From California to the New York Island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters...As I was walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway"
This Land is Your Land
This river is the heart of Zion National Park, which over millions of years sliced through Navajo Sandstone to create Zion Canyon's towering walls.
Virgin River
What mountain is the highest peak in the United States?
Denali aka Mount McKinley
What city is home to the Space Needle?
Seattle
This is the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River, tracing its origins to 1916.
Acadia National Park
This traditional song starts out, "Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play, where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day"
Home on the Range
Acadia National Park is home to this lake. It is the park's largest lake.
Eagle Lake
What mountain range runs along the eastern United States spanning from Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada to central Alabama?
Appalachian Mountains
Which city has the nickname "The City of Brotherly Love"?
Philadelphia
This park is the smallest of the national parks and is located in Missouri, it covers just 91 acres.
Name this song "Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge mountains, Shenandoah river
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze"
Take Me Home, Country Roads
This river forms a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico and flows through Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Rio Grande
Which US state borders only 1 other state?
Maine
Which city is the capital of Hawaii?
Honolulu
How many official US National Parks are there?
63
This patriotic song regarded as the unofficial national anthem was originally written in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates. Bates traveled cross country and the sights she saw set the stage for these descriptive lyrics - "purple mountain majesties"
America the Beautiful
This lake located in Oregon is famous for its incredible deep blue color. It fills a volcanic caldera and is the deepest lake in the United States.
Crater Lake
What bay separates Maryland and Virginia?
Chesapeake Bay
Which city is famous for the International Balloon Fiesta?
Albuquerque