Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures

Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures by National Geographic Society. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780792270331.

Relax. Linger over the national parks youll visit in this book. Seven maps and 129 photographs will take you there. In the northern Cascade Range in Washington State, youll hike amid snowy crags and alpine meadows. In Minnesotas Voyageurs National Park, youll cruise among lakes once plied by fur trappers. In the badlands of North Dakota, youll dodge bison, and off Californias coast, youll discover an isolated wildlife haven in the Channel Islands. In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, youll explore an exposed portion of a 400-mile-long marine fossil reef. In Florida, youll snorkel among the coral islands and reefs of Biscayne National Park, and in Alaska, youll hike in the wilderness park of Katmai.