Truly America’s Best Idea, the National Parks protect and celebrate some of the most beautiful spots on this planet, let alone the United States. These 59 designated parks range dramatically, from the little visited Isle Royale National Park in the middle of Lake Superior with 24,000 annual visitors, to the giant ones, like Grand Canyon National Park, with nearly 6,000,000 annual visitors.
We admit there are a number of them on the list that we are barely aware of. Guadalupe Mountains? Lake Clark? Time to get traveling, it seems. Luckily, we also have some beautifully illustrated posters to help us on our quest, thanks to the talented folks at Fifty-Nine Parks, who have created some definite works of art that celebrate these special places. We feel so inspired, we want to save a whole room’s worth of walls for their posters, each one lovingly detailed, and set at both day and night, giving a broad range of hues, moods, and styles. Yet another reason to pull out a map and plan a trip to one of these fifty nine parks. Thanks to J.M for the tip.
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