10 Great Photos of Our National Parks and Their Founders

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns explores the great natural wonders of our country.

By Ken Burns in Reader's Digest

Badlands National Park

View acres of the most spectacular landscape of a roadless wilderness area.

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Crater Lake National Park

Travel to the deepest and one of the bluest lakes in the United States for snowshoeing and other winter fun.

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Flamingo Area, Everglades National Park

Canoe through the center for sightseeing in the southern sector of the primeval Everglades.

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George Parks Highway

Threading through the land of the midnight sun, this wilderness ramble reveals the many facets of Mt. McKinley (Denali), the icy jewel in Alaska's craggy crown.

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Going-to-the-Sun Road

Twisting and turning as it climbs through the mountains of northwestern Montana, this drive reveals the wild and wondrous essence of Glacier National Park.

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Grand Canyon Loop

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Great Basin National Park

Travel the loneliest road in America to find one of the least visited national parks in the U.S. to see some of the oldest living plants on Earth.

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