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Elk Island National Park
Elk Island National Park: fully fenced Canadian national park in the Beaver Hills, 48 km east of Edmonton. Founded 1906 as Canada's first wildlife refuge; seed herd site for plains and wood bison conservation.
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is a vast savanna and salt-pan national park in northern Namibia, proclaimed in 1907, covering 22,935 km² and famous for elephants, rhinos, and lions.
Exmoor
Exmoor is a 267-square-mile National Park in south-west England, designated in 1954, known for open moorland, high sea cliffs, wooded valleys, dark skies, over 2 million annual visitors, and pine marten reintroduction.
Fiordland
Fiordland: south-west South Island, New Zealand region centered on Fiordland National Park (1.2 million ha, constituted 1952), part of Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area; glacial fiords, Milford and Kepler Tracks, up to 9,000 mm annual rainfall.
Fiordland National Park
Fiordland National Park, New Zealand's largest national park at over 1.2 million hectares, was constituted in 1952 and inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1986, later forming part of Te Wahipounamu. Known for Milford and Doubtful Sounds, the Milford Track, and extreme rainfall.
Fitzgerald River National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park: large national park on Western Australia's south coast, 420 km southeast of Perth, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978) and National Heritage place (2016) with about 1,748 plant species including 75 endemics.
Five Islands, Nova Scotia
Five Islands, Nova Scotia: community and provincial park on the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, 24 km east of Parrsboro, with 90 m sea cliffs, the world's highest tides, Triassic-Jurassic geology, and about 92 campsites.
Flinders Chase National Park
Flinders Chase National Park, a wilderness park at the west end of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, reserved in 1919; home to Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch, long-nosed fur seals, and 96% burnt in the 2019–20 bushfires.
Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges is a mountain range in South Australia, north of Adelaide, whose exposed rocks record 350 million years of Earth history, including the first large complex animal life.
Florencia Beach
Florencia Beach, also called Florencia Bay or Wreck Beach, is a 5 km surf beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada, with A-frame beach-break waves, northeast offshore winds, cold water, and access via the Willowbrae and Nuu-chah-nulth trails.
Fortress of Louisbourg
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site: Parks Canada reconstruction in Nova Scotia of a French fortified town founded 1713, captured by Britain in 1745 and 1758, demolished, and partly rebuilt from 1961 as North America's largest historical reconstruction.
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Garibaldi Provincial Park, established 1927, is a 188,667 ha wilderness park in the Coast Mountains 64 km north of Vancouver, centered on 2,678 m Mount Garibaldi, with five Highway 99 trailheads, over 90 km of trails, and reservation-only backcountry camping.
Gibraltar Range National Park
Gibraltar Range National Park is a national park in northern New South Wales, Australia, between Glen Innes and Grafton, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.
Gir National Park
Gir National Park in Gujarat, India, core of the Gir sanctuary complex (about 1,883 sq km), protects the world's only wild Asiatic lions, which numbered 891 in the 2025 census, up from 674 in 2020.
Grampians National Park
Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) is a heritage-listed park in western Victoria, Australia, famed for Aboriginal rock art, Mount William, and the 164 km Grampians Peaks Trail; heavily affected by 2024-25 bushfires.
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is a Brazilian Cerrado national park created in 1989 and expanded in 2004 to about 230,853 hectares in Minas Gerais and Bahia, named for Guimarães Rosa's novel and protecting jaguars, maned wolves, and vereda wetlands.
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park, a 180,500-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site on Newfoundland's west coast, exposes the Earth's mantle at the Tablelands, features Gros Morne Mountain (806 m) and Western Brook Pond fjord, and hosts seven enclave communities.
Guiana Amazonian Park
Guiana Amazonian Park (Parc amazonien de Guyane), created 27 February 2007, is France's and the EU's largest national park: 34,000 km² of rainforest in southern French Guiana, linked with Brazil's Tumucumaque park.
Hatley Park National Historic Site
Hatley Park National Historic Site, Colwood, British Columbia: 228.84-hectare Edwardian estate with Hatley Castle (1908-09, Samuel Maclure), built for James Dunsmuir, later Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University.
Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park
Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie, a 224.7 km² Quebec national park in Charlevoix created in 2000, protecting deep valleys of the Malbaie River with the 800 m Acropole des Draveurs rock face.
Hell's Gate National Park
Hell's Gate National Park: Kenyan Rift Valley park near Lake Naivasha, gazetted 1984, 68.25 sq km, KWS-managed; walkable and cyclable, hosts Olkaria geothermal plants and Kenya's only protected Rüppell's vulture colonies.
Hopewell Rocks
Hopewell Rocks (flowerpot rocks) are over twenty sea stacks at Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, carved by Bay of Fundy tides; walkable ocean floor at low tide, kayaking at high tide, in a provincial park.
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta (Hortobágyi Nemzeti Park) is a World Heritage cultural landscape of plains and wetlands on the Great Hungarian Plain in eastern Hungary, inscribed by UNESCO in 1999.
Hundred Islands National Park
Hundred Islands National Park (HINP): 123 coral islands in Alaminos City, Pangasinan, Philippines, along Lingayen Gulf. Established by Quezon's Proclamation No. 667 in 1940; about 1,860 hectares; managed by Alaminos City since 2005.
Hwange National Park
Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie), Zimbabwe's largest park at 14,650 km² in the northwest, holds about 45,000 elephants and depends on over 100 solar-powered boreholes for dry-season water.
Ilha do Mel
Ilha do Mel (Honey Island) is a car-free, protected island in Baía de Paranaguá, Paraná, Brazil, with 2,710 hectares, the 1767 Fortaleza, 1872 Farol das Conchas, villages Encantadas and Nova Brasília, and a 5,000-visitor daily cap.
Impression Fenglingdu Scenic Area
Impression Fenglingdu Scenic Area (印象风陵渡景区), a free-entry national AAA attraction in Fenglingdu town, Ruicheng County, Yuncheng, Shanxi, on the Yellow River Golden Triangle; eight sections, 80 °C strontium hot springs, Xihoudu site, hero locomotive.
Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory
TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure) is a dual-status Bolivian national park and indigenous territory of the Mojeño, Yuracaré, and Tsimane peoples, titled in 2009 at 1,091,656 hectares, known for the contested Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos highway and coca-driven deforestation.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park is a transboundary UNESCO World Heritage natural site (397,403 ha) on the South Africa–Mozambique coast, inscribed 1999 and extended 2025 under criteria vii, ix, x.
Islas Marietas National Park
Islas Marietas National Park (Parque Nacional Islas Marietas) is a 2005-designated marine national park in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, with two islands, coral reefs, seabird colonies, the hidden Playa del Amor, and a 2016 tourism ban later lifted with visitor caps.