From Yellowstone to Yosemite, Zion to Shenandoah, our national parks were founded on one principle: They belong to all of us. Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns explores the parks' hidden history.
By Ken Burns
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.
Travel the highest continuous paved road in the nation for stunning vistas and wildlife spotting.
Denali National Park and Preserve
View wildlife in one of the nation's most magnificant national parks.
Bejeweled with cliffs, domes, meadows, lakes, and waterfalls -- the legacy of bygone glaciers -- Yosemite National Park offers visitors a degree of beauty and variety that is truly mesmerizing.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
One of the highlights of this center is state-of-the-art Draper Museum which leads visitors down an interactive trail through the sights, sounds, and sensations of the West's natural world.
This drive traverses a northern Colorado landscape once trod only by hooves, paws, Indian moccasins, and trappers' boots.
The park's geological story began over 200 million years ago, when pinelike trees were carried by waterways here and buried in the silt of a huge floodplain.
High in the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana, this winding drive tours sharp-edged peaks and swift rivers.