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Angel Island (California)
Angel Island is the largest natural island in San Francisco Bay, a California state park that served as the West Coast's main immigrant processing station from 1910 to 1940.
Antelope Island
Antelope Island, largest island in Utah's Great Salt Lake, hosts Antelope Island State Park, reached by the Syracuse causeway. Known for its 1893-founded bison herd (550-700 animals), Fielding Garr Ranch, and dark-sky designation.
Black's Beach
Black's Beach (Torrey Pines City Beach and State Beach) is a two-mile San Diego beach beneath 300-foot cliffs, known for expert winter surf, difficult cliff access, and a customary clothing-optional northern section.
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico's first state park (1933), near Roswell: a chain of eight sinkhole lakes, 17 to 90 feet deep, fed by artesian groundwater, with swimming at Lea Lake, camping, and trails.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a California state park near Arnold established 1931, preserves North and South groves of giant sequoias first publicized by Augustus T. Dowd's 1852 discovery, with prescribed fire management since the 1970s.
Cape Disappointment State Park
Cape Disappointment State Park, also called Fort Canby, is a 2,023-acre Washington state park at Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula, with two lighthouses, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Fort Canby ruins, and one of the state's largest campgrounds.
Chugach State Park
Chugach State Park is a roughly 495,000-acre Alaska state park, one of the four largest in the United States, bordering Anchorage. Established 1970 by Governor Keith Miller, it offers over 280 miles of trails, Crow Pass, Flattop, campgrounds, and is Alaska's most visited recreation destination.
City of Rocks State Park
City of Rocks State Park is a New Mexico state park in Faywood, established in 1952 around volcanic rock pinnacles rising as high as 40 feet.
Colorado State Parks
Colorado State Parks is a system of 43 parks covering over 230,000 acres, managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and drawing more than 16 million visitors a year.
Denali State Park
Denali State Park is a 325,240-acre Alaska state park created in 1970 along the George Parks Highway, south of Denali National Park, known for the 37-mile Kesugi Ridge Trail and close views of Denali.
Fort Bridger
Fort Bridger, Wyoming trading post founded 1843 by Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez on Blacks Fork; emigrant resupply point on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails, later a Mormon way station and U.S. Army post until 1890, now a state historic site.
Fort Ross, California
Fort Ross, also known as Krepost Ross, is a former Russian-American Company settlement on the Northern California coast, founded in 1812 and now a state historic park.
Fort Stevens (Oregon)
Fort Stevens was a US Army coastal defense fort at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, serving from the Civil War to World War II.
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park near Yarnell, Arizona, dedicated 2016, memorializes 19 Prescott hotshot firefighters killed June 30, 2013 in the Yarnell Hill Fire, with a 7-mile memorial trail to the fatality site.
Lake Pleasant Regional Park
Lake Pleasant Regional Park is a 23,362-acre Maricopa County park near Morristown, Arizona, also called Waddell Dam reservoir country, centered on the CAP's Lake Pleasant with boating, fishing, camping, and fluctuating 3,000-10,000-acre water surface.
List of Alaska state parks
List of Alaska state parks: units of the Alaska State Park System, also called Alaska State Parks, managed by the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation; over 156 units, about 3 million acres, largest system in the US, anchored by Wood-Tikchik State Park.
Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park (Lakota maco sica, "bad land") is Montana's largest state park, 11,538 acres of Hell Creek Formation badlands near Glendive with Triceratops, T. rex, and rare Thescelosaurus fossils, a K-T boundary exposure, Buzzard Day, and over 100,000 annual visitors.
Massacre Rocks State Park
Massacre Rocks State Park is a 990-acre Idaho state park on the Snake River near American Falls, named for boulders that formed a narrow gap on the Oregon and California Trails.
Moran State Park
Moran State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Washington state park on Orcas Island, created from Robert Moran's 1921 donation of about 2,700 acres, featuring 2,407-foot Mount Constitution, five lakes, CCC-built stone tower, and forested campgrounds.
Nā Pali Coast State Park
Nā Pali Coast State Park (Nāpali Coast State Wilderness Park) is a cliff-lined wilderness park on Kauaʻi's northwest shore, entered via Hāʻena State Park and the 11-mile Kalalau Trail, with camping permits required past Hanakāpīʻai and boat landings limited to Kalalau and Miloliʻi, May 15–September 7.
Silver Falls State Park
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon's largest state park at over 9,000 acres near Salem, opened in 1933 and is known for the 7.2-mile Trail of Ten Falls, which passes ten waterfalls and runs behind four, including 177-foot South Falls.
Smith Rock State Park
Smith Rock State Park is a 650-acre Oregon state park near Redmond and Terrebonne, a world-renowned sport climbing destination with over 2,000 routes on welded tuff cliffs above the Crooked River, drawing about 746,000 visitors annually.
State parks of the Western United States
State parks of the Western United States are protected areas managed by individual western state governments, holding 65 percent of the nation's state park acreage with 18 percent of its population.
Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort, also called New Helvetia, is John Sutter's 1839 adobe fort in Sacramento, California, now a reconstructed state historic park, end of the California Trail, and California Historical Landmark.
Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada's first state park (dedicated 1934, established 1935), is a 40,000-acre park near Overton with Jurassic red Aztec Sandstone, 2,000-plus-year-old petroglyphs, and nearly one million annual visitors.
Washington State Park System
Washington State Park System: recreation and heritage areas run by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, created 1913; 122,000 acres, over 40 million annual visitors, Discover Pass access, camping limits, and a $135.6 million 2025-27 capital program.