National Geographic America's hidden treasures. relax linger over the National Park you'll visit in this book you won't find a mobbed facilities here these parks are among the least visited in the United States national park system. each Park is distinctly different often spectacularly so. seven maps 129 photographs would take you from Alaska to Florida from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean on a journey bound to rekindle a sense of adventure and exploration. in Northern Cascade range in Washington state you'll hike a dazzling snowy crags flowers strewn Alpine meadows. you'll visit a community so remote that only way to get there is on foot or by float plane or a 50 mi ferry boat ride. in Minnesota Voyager National Park will tempt you to cruise among the lakes on Forest plaid by fur trappers in canoe men in the 17th and to the 19th century. after freezed up you sample winter time activities such as cross-country skiing at ice fishing. the grasslands and note where Theodore Roosevelt ranch as a young man will bring you to a region of sun drenched vastness. here are your Dodge bison right horseback through Badlands gnarled by wind and water. off California coast you visit the channel Islands which held one of the world's great sea lion rookies. on land and in the offshore Forest of giant cope you'll discover an isolated wildlife Hagen Haven so unusual it has been likened to the equator's Galapagos islands. in the Galapagos mountains rusting sheer from the Texas desert you'll explore an exposed portion of a 400 mi Marine fossil reef wander along Canon Canyon trails filed by the Apache Indians many years before swinging East to Florida you'll snorkel among the coral islands and reefs in the bike and National Park and visit Mangrove for us. then you'll drink to Alaska in the wildest wild wildness park of Captain May you're watching bears scoop salmon from the brook River and you'll hike in a valley of 10,000 smokes a desolate wonderland created by a volcano eruption in 1912.