Enormous mountain ranges and breathtaking gorges. Wild sea shores and lazy rivers. Ghost towns and battlefields. Pristine lakes and coral reefs. Not to mention nearly 25,000 campsites, 52,000 miles of hiking trails, over 300 marinas, and hundreds of pools and ski slopes and golf courses. Encompassing more than 18 million acres of land, America’s state parks feature a variety of adventures that is nothing short of astounding.
Author(s): Joe Yogerst
Series: The Great Courses, 9788
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Year: 2019-10
Language: English
Pages: 256
Professor Biography......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 5
Course Scope......Page 7
Lecture 1 • Niagara Falls: America’s Oldest State Park......Page 10
Three Separate Falls......Page 12
Experiencing the Park......Page 13
Other Trails and Sites in the Park......Page 16
Planning Your Visit......Page 17
Lecture 2 • The Pennsylvania Wilds: Wilderness Reborn......Page 18
Leonard Harrison State Park and Colton Point State Park......Page 20
Cherry Springs State Park......Page 22
Kinzua Bridge State Park......Page 24
Cook Forest State Park......Page 26
Sinnemahoning State Park......Page 28
Lecture 3 • New York’s Adirondacks: “Forever Wild”......Page 30
Aquatic Activities......Page 32
The Great Camps......Page 33
The Adirondack Highlands......Page 34
Saranac Lake and Lake Placid......Page 36
Lake Champlain and Lake George......Page 38
Planning Your Visit......Page 39
Lecture 4 • Exploring New Hampshire’s White Mountains......Page 40
Franconia Notch State Park......Page 42
Crawford Notch State Park......Page 44
Mount Washington State Park......Page 46
Planning Your Visit......Page 47
Lecture 5 • The Yankee Coast: Plymouth to Montauk......Page 48
Pilgrim Memorial State Park......Page 50
The Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey......Page 51
Fort Adams State Park......Page 52
Montauk Point State Park and Camp Hero State Park......Page 54
Planning Your Visit......Page 55
Lecture 6 • New Jersey Pineland Legends and Landscapes......Page 56
Starting Your Visit and Wharton State Forest......Page 58
Brendan T. Byrne State Forest......Page 59
Bass River......Page 61
Penn State Forest, Belleplain State Forest, and Double Trouble State Park......Page 62
State Parks along the Ocean......Page 63
Lecture 7 • The Tidewater South: America’s Birthplace......Page 64
Assateague State Park......Page 66
First Landing State Park......Page 67
Dismal Swamp State Park......Page 69
Jamestown Settlement......Page 71
The American Revolution Museum......Page 72
Planning Your Visit......Page 73
Lecture 8 • Georgia and Carolina Islands: Lost in Time......Page 74
Visiting Sapelo Island......Page 76
What to See on Sapelo Island......Page 77
Hunting Island......Page 78
Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site......Page 79
Fort Fisher......Page 80
Jockey’s Ridge State Park......Page 81
Lecture 9 • Southern Appalachian Peaks and Valleys......Page 84
DeSoto State Park......Page 86
Fort Mountain State Park......Page 88
Tallulah Gorge State Park......Page 89
The Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area......Page 92
Lecture 10 • The Florida Keys: Tropical Paradise Parks......Page 94
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park......Page 96
Bahia Honda State Park......Page 97
Indian Key Historic State Park......Page 98
San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park......Page 99
Long Key State Park......Page 100
Curry Hammock State Park......Page 101
Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park......Page 102
Planning Your Visit......Page 103
Lecture 11 • West Texas: Where the West Is Still Wild......Page 104
Big Bend Ranch State Park......Page 106
Visiting Big Bend Ranch’s Backcountry......Page 108
Palo Duro Canyon State Park......Page 109
Visiting Palo Duro Canyon State Park......Page 110
Lecture 12 • Adventures in the Ozarks and Ouachitas......Page 112
Ha Ha Tonka State Park......Page 114
Onondaga Cave State Park......Page 115
Ozark Folk Center State Park......Page 116
Lake Ouachita State Park......Page 117
Mount Magazine State Park......Page 119
Cossatot River State Park–Natural Area......Page 120
Beavers Bend State Park......Page 121
Lecture 13 • State Parks along the Mighty Mississippi......Page 122
Itasca State Park......Page 124
The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site and Mark Twain State Park......Page 125
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site......Page 126
Columbus-Belmont State Park......Page 127
Delta Heritage Trail State Park......Page 128
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site......Page 129
Lecture 14 • Presidential Parks in the Land of Lincoln......Page 130
Lincoln State Park......Page 132
Brown County State Park......Page 134
John James Audubon State Park......Page 135
Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site......Page 136
Sites in Springfield, Illinois......Page 137
Lecture 15 • The Great Lakes: Back from the Brink......Page 138
South Bass Island State Park......Page 140
Indiana Dunes State Park......Page 141
Peninsula State Park......Page 142
Mackinac Island State Park......Page 144
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park......Page 145
Lecture 16 • The Black Hills: Nature and Native Heritage......Page 148
Custer State Park......Page 150
Exploring Custer State Park by Vehicle......Page 151
The George S. Mickelson Trail......Page 153
Bear Butte State Park......Page 154
Planning Your Visit......Page 155
Lecture 17 • Parks of the Colorado Front Range......Page 156
State Forest State Park......Page 158
Eldorado Canyon State Park......Page 161
Mueller State Park......Page 163
The Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area......Page 164
Lecture 18 • Southwest Red Rock and Desert Canyon Parks......Page 166
Red Rock State Park and Other Sedona-Area Parks......Page 168
Valley of Fire State Park......Page 169
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park......Page 172
Kodachrome Basin State Park......Page 173
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park and the Anasazi State Park Museum......Page 174
Planning Your Visit......Page 175
Lecture 19 • California’s Badlands: Anza-Borrego......Page 176
Borrego Valley and Borrego Springs......Page 178
The Borrego Badlands......Page 180
To the South......Page 181
The Vallecito Valley......Page 183
The Carrizo Badlands and the Jacumba Mountains......Page 184
Lecture 20 • Big Blue: The Beauty of Lake Tahoe......Page 186
Emerald Bay State Park......Page 188
D. L. Bliss State Park......Page 190
Ed Z’berg Sugar Pine Point......Page 191
Cave Rock State Park......Page 192
Sand Harbor State Park......Page 193
Lecture 21 • California’s Coastal Redwood Parks......Page 194
Background on the Redwoods......Page 196
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park......Page 197
Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park......Page 199
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park......Page 200
Other Parks and Planning Your Visit......Page 201
Lecture 22 • Washington’s Orca Islands: The San Juans......Page 202
Lime Kiln Point State Park......Page 204
Moran State Park......Page 206
Sucia Island Marine State Park......Page 208
Matia Island Marine State Park......Page 209
Lecture 23 • Alaska’s State Parks: The Last Frontier......Page 210
Wood-Tikchik State Park......Page 212
The Challenges of Wood-Tikchik State Park......Page 213
Attractions at Wood-Tikchik......Page 214
Visiting Wood-Tikchik......Page 216
Chugach State Park......Page 217
Visiting Chugach’s Turnagain Area......Page 218
Visiting Chugach’s Girdwood Area......Page 219
Visiting Chugach’s Anchorage Hillside Trails Area......Page 221
Lecture 24 • Hawaii’s Primeval Napali Coast......Page 222
Ha‘ena State Park......Page 224
The Kalalau Trail......Page 225
Napali Coast Wilderness State Park......Page 226
Crawler’s Ledge and Beyond......Page 227
Nu‘alolo Kai and Miloli‘i State Parks......Page 228
Polihale State Park......Page 229
Waimea Canyon State Park......Page 230
Koke‘e State Park......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 232
Parks List......Page 242
Image Credits......Page 252
