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Palo Duro Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon, the "Grand Canyon of Texas," is the second largest canyon system in the United States: about 120 miles long, up to 20 miles wide and 800 feet deep, carved by the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River, with a 28,000-acre state park.
Paris Mountain State Park
Paris Mountain State Park is a 1,700-acre South Carolina state park six miles north of Greenville, built by the CCC in the 1930s on former Greenville watershed land with Lake Placid, and listed on the National Register in 1998.
Patapsco Valley State Park
Patapsco Valley State Park, founded 1907 as the Patapsco Forest Reserve, is Maryland's oldest state park: 16,043 acres along 32 miles of the Patapsco River, over 200 miles of trails, a CCC camp that became the nation's first conscientious objector camp, and the Thomas Viaduct.
Providence Canyon State Park
Providence Canyon State Park, "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon," is a 1971-established Georgia state park in Stewart County protecting erosion gorges up to 150 feet deep, formed by 1800s poor farming practices in Cretaceous Providence Sand.
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, Georgia: world's largest exposed granite mass near Atlanta, site of the giant Confederate Memorial Carving (Davis, Lee, Jackson, 1915–1972), Stone Mountain Park, and the 1915 KKK rebirth.
Table Rock State Park (South Carolina)
Table Rock State Park is a 3,083-acre South Carolina state park in Pickens County, named for the 3,100-foot Table Rock Mountain granite dome, built by the CCC 1935-1941, on the National Register, with two lakes and Foothills Trail access.
Tishomingo State Park
Tishomingo State Park, a Mississippi state park in Tishomingo County at Natchez Trace Milepost 304, built by the CCC from 1935, named for a Chickasaw chief, with Appalachian-foot hill rock outcroppings, Bear Creek swinging bridge, 13 miles of trails, and a 2026 ice-storm closure.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee is an area in Hernando County, Florida, built around a first-magnitude spring known for mermaid shows since 1947, a state park since 2008.
West Virginia state parks
West Virginia state parks: a DNR-run system of 36 parks, nine state forests, and rail trails begun in 1925 at Watoga, with 10 lodge parks, free day-use admission, and nearly 10 million annual visitors.
White Clay Creek State Park
White Clay Creek State Park is a 3,689-acre Delaware state park near Newark with over 37 miles of trails, a Wild and Scenic Creek, DuPont-era origins, and a $13.4 million Discovery Center opening 2028.
Wormsloe Historic Site
Wormsloe Historic Site (Wormsloe State Historic Site) is an 822-acre Georgia state park on the Isle of Hope near Savannah, preserving Noble Jones's 1736 colonial estate, its tabby fort ruins, live oak avenue, and the oldest continuously owned family estate in Georgia.