Custer State Park
Bison herds, granite spires and the Needles Highway in the Black Hills, with trails to Black Elk Peak.
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Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park
Michigan’s largest state park: old-growth forest, Lake of the Clouds and wild Lake Superior shoreline on the far western Upper Peninsula.
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Baxter State Park
Katahdin, the end of the Appalachian Trail, and 200,000 acres (810 km²) of Maine wilderness kept forever wild.
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Parc national de la Gaspésie
The Chic-Chocs: tundra summits above 4,000 feet (1,200 m), the last caribou south of the St. Lawrence, and late-spring skiing.
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Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
The heart of Kananaskis Country: big lakes under Rockies peaks, larch-filled valleys and grizzly country, a short drive from Calgary.
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Mount Robson Provincial Park
The highest peak in the Canadian Rockies and the Berg Lake Trail, where glaciers calve into a lake below the mountain’s north face.
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Garibaldi Provincial Park
Glaciers, volcanic peaks and the turquoise water of Garibaldi Lake, an hour north of Vancouver on the Sea to Sky Highway.
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Quetico Provincial Park
Nearly 1,800 square miles (4,700 km²) of roadless canoe country on the Minnesota border, with almost no motors.
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Killarney Provincial Park
White quartzite ridges and clear lakes in the La Cloche Mountains, painted by the Group of Seven, with a 50-mile (80 km) loop.
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Algonquin Provincial Park
Ontario’s oldest provincial park: 2,000-plus backcountry campsites on a web of lakes, portages and moose country.
