Worldwide Parks and Recreation Areas with Wildlife Watching

For its time and place, there was no other pueblo like Wupatki. Less than 800 years ago, it was the tallest, largest, and perhaps the richest and most influential pueblo around. It was home to 85-100 people, and several thousand more lived within a days walk. And it was built in one of the lowest, warmest, and driest places on the Colorado Plateau. What compelled people to build here? read more...

Phone: (928) 679-2365   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No  
Nearest Popular City: Flagstaff   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities: Birding, Hiking, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Wupatki National Monument

Starting as a trickle near Berlin, NJ, the Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River gradually widens as it picks up the waters of 17 tributaries on its way to Great Egg Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Established by Congress in 1992, nearly all of this 129-mile river system rests within the Pinelands National Reserve. read more...

Phone: 215-597-9175   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No  
Nearest Popular City: Philadelphia   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Biking / Bicycling, Fishing, Golfing, Hunting and Shooting, Backpacking, Wildlife Watching, Kayaking, Nature Walks, Star Gazing   Details Provided By: Great Egg Harbor River

From over 7,000 years ago to the 1960s people have quarried or mined the rich copper deposits of the Keweenaw. First, it was Native peoples that fashioned the copper into tools and trade items. Much later came the eastern investors and immigrants in one of the nations first large mineral rushes. read more...

Phone: (906) 337-3168   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No  
Nearest Popular City: Calumet   Nearest Lake/River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Park   Activities: Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Biking / Bicycling, Fishing, Hiking, Hunting and Shooting, Backpacking, Cross Country Skiing, Swimming, Wildlife Watching, Kayaking, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs, Snowshoeing, Star Gazing, Snowmobiling   Details Provided By: Keweenaw National Historical Park