Tallulah Gorge State Park
A gorge two miles (3 km) long and nearly 1,000 feet (300 m) deep in the north Georgia mountains, with rim overlooks, a suspension bridge and a permit hike to the floor.
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Dead Horse Point State Park
A mesa-top overlook 2,000 feet (600 m) above a gooseneck of the Colorado River, with rim trails, bike trails and some of Utah’s darkest skies.
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Oswald West State Park
A sheltered surf cove, two wild headlands and one of Oregon’s best coastal rainforests, a half-mile (800 m) walk from Highway 101.
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Ecola State Park
Nine miles (14 km) of headlands, sea stacks and old-growth spruce around Tillamook Head, between Cannon Beach and Seaside.
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Mount Spokane State Park
Washington’s largest state park: 100 miles (160 km) of trail through forest and subalpine meadow to a 5,883-foot (1,793 m) summit, with skiing in winter.
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Silver Falls State Park
Ten waterfalls on one 7.2-mile (11.6 km) loop through a forested basalt canyon, four of them with the trail running behind the water.
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Malibu Creek State Park
Volcanic crags, oak meadows and a creek gorge in the Santa Monica Mountains, with the M*A*S*H film site, 25 miles (40 km) from downtown Los Angeles.
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Starved Rock State Park
Eighteen sandstone canyons with rain-fed waterfalls along the Illinois River, on 13 miles (21 km) of trail at Illinois’s most visited state park.
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Bear Mountain State Park
Rugged Hudson Highlands summits above the river, the oldest section of the Appalachian Trail and a summit tower, under an hour and a half from New York City.
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Devil’s Lake State Park
A 360-acre (146 ha) lake ringed by 500-foot (150 m) quartzite bluffs in the Baraboo Hills, Wisconsin’s largest and most visited state park.
