The Pine Tree State is home to Acadia National Park, Katahdin Woods & Waters, and Saint Croix Island, but Roosevelt Campobello is really in Canada. The multi-state Appalachian Trail starts or ends in Maine. Acadian Village is a park partner at the northern tip of Maine, and the Downeast Maine NHA includes several of the above sites along the coast.
This post wraps up the contiguous states. Next year Saturday posts will cover which parks to visit and some of the challenges facing us each month.
While the Appalachian Trail passes through the White Mountains, the Granite State has only one national park unit. Fortunately, that is the beautiful Saint-Gaudens NHP, below.
I’m wrapping up my park photos for each of the 48 contiguous states this year, just three left in New England, full of childhood memories. Like Connecticut & New Hampshire, Vermont has only one national park unit, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller, a long-protected wooded area. Only one park photo, but the state is well worth celebrating. The Green Mountain State also has parts of the Appalachian and North Country trails and the Champlain Valley heritage area.
Celebrating completing the Sunshine State!
Big Cypress N Preserve, Biscayne National Park, Canaveral N Seashore, Castillo de San Marcos NM, De Soto N Memorial, Dry Tortugas National Park, Everglades National Park, Fort Caroline N Memorial, Fort Matanzas N Monument, and Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve are above. Gulf Islands N Seashore and the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor are partly in Florida, plus there’s the Florida NST.
Celebrating completing the Peach Tree State!
Andersonville NHS, Chattahoochee River NRA, Cumberland Island NS, Fort Frederica NM, Fort Pulaski NM, Jimmy Carter NHP, Kennesaw Mountain NBP, Martin Luther King, Jr. NHP, Ocmulgee Mounds NHP are above. Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP is partly in Georgia, along with Kettle Creek Battlefield, Arabia Mountain and Augusta Canal NHAs and parts of the Appalachian NST and Trail of Tears NHT.
Celebrating completing the Yellowhammer State!
Birmingham Civil Rights NM, Freedom Riders NM, Horseshoe Bend NMP, Little River Canyon N Pres, Russell Cave NM, Tuskegee Airmen NHS and Tuskegee Institute NHS are above. The Selma to Montgomery NHT is unique to the state, and the Natchez Trace and Trail of Tears NHTs pass through. Alabama has 2 National Heritage Areas: Alabama Black Belt and Muscle Shoals NHAs.
Celebrating having completing the Magnolia State (before the parks shut down)!
Brices Cross Roads NBS, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley NM, Gulf Islands NS, Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home NM, Natchez NHP, Natchez Trace NST & Pkwy, Tupelo NB and Vicksburg NMP are above. The state has 3 National Heritage Areas: Delta, Gulf Coast and Hills.
Celebrating completing the Volunteer State!
Andrew Johnson NHS, Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP (partly in Georgia), Fort Donelson NB (partly in Kentucky), Great Smoky Mountains NP & WHS (partly in North Carolina), Obed WSR, Shiloh NMP (partly in Mississippi), and Stones River NB are above. Big South Fork NRRA, Cumberland Gap NHP, Natchez Trace Parkway & National Scenic Trail, Overmountain Victory NHT, and Trail of Tears NHT are also partly in the state. Tennessee is an NHA dedicated to the Civil War, which includes the affiliate site, Parkers Cross Roads.
Celebrating completing the Palmetto State!
Charles Pinckney NHS, Congaree NP, Cowpens NB, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie NHP, Kings Mountain NMP, Ninety Six NHS, and Reconstruction Era NHP are above. Eutaw Springs and Historic Cambden are also in South Carolina, and parts of the Overmountain Victory NHT, Gullah Geechee CHC, and South Carolina & Southern Campaign of the Revolution NHCs are too.
Celebrating completing the Tar Heel State!
Above are the Blue Ridge Parkway (also in Virginia), Cape Hatteras NS, Cape Lookout NS, Carl Sandburg Home NHS, Fort Raleigh NHS, Guilford Courthouse NMP, Moores Creek NB, and Wright Brothers N Memorial. Appalachian NST, Great Smoky Mountains NP (also in Tennessee), Overmountain Victory NHT, Trail of Tears NHT, Blue Ridge NHA, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, and the Southern Campaign of the Revolution NHC are here too.
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