The largest national park in the country is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, which is situated in Alaska. President Jimmy Carter declared it a national park in 1980, and it spans an estimated 13 million acres.
Congress created it in 1980 to save a special wilderness area consisting of lakes, rivers, tundra, mountains, and glaciers. There are no roads or trails that lead into the 8.4 million-acre park.
Situated in south central Alaska, Denali National Park and Preserve is one of the country's largest national parks. With a land area of six million acres, it contains a range of ecosystems, such as hilly terrain, tundra, glacier ice fields, and boreal forests.
President Woodrow Wilson established Katmai National Park, a national monument situated in Alaska, in 1918. Two of its most recognizable features, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and Mount Katmai, are located on its roughly 4 million acres.
At 3.3 million acres, Death Valley, a national park spanning both California and Nevada, is the fifth largest in the country. On October 31, 1994, it was declared a national park in order to protect the animals that live in this hostile desert habitat as well as the area's distinctive geological features.
Covering 3.2 million acres, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is situated in southeast Alaska. President Calvin Coolidge declared it as a national monument in 1925, and in 1979, UNESCO recognized it as a World Heritage Site.
One of the biggest national parks in the country is Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which is situated in the south central part of Alaska. This park contains a diverse range of ecosystems, including boreal forests, tundra plains, and mountains.
Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the United States, having been created in 1872. This enormous area, which is mostly in Wyoming but also extends into Montana and Idaho, is home to hundreds of different species of fish, birds, animals, and reptiles in addition to a multitude of geothermal phenomena.
One of the ten biggest national parks in the country is Kobuk Valley National Park, which is situated in Northwest Alaska. President Jimmy Carter declared the 1,795 square mile stretch of the Kobuk River sand dunes, one of the most important natural features in North America, to be a preserve on December 2, 1980.