Visiting Lake Mead National Recreation Area

There are lots of great National Park areas in addition to official National Parks

Lake Mead ©Donetta Dalman

Recently I wrote about visiting our National Parks and I shared a list of the 63 official parks in the system. It got me thinking more about all of the other types of areas that are set apart as National Park areas.

Since we started traveling full time in 2020, we have been visiting as many of these as we can along our journey and we’ve managed to check quite a few off the list. (65 of them to be exact!) I’d never really looked up how many there are and what other types there are so I thought I would explore that a little.

Here are the places I found that are part of the National Park System:

• National Recreation Areas
• National Historic Sites
• National Military Parks
• National Seashores
• National Lakeshores
• National Monuments
• National Memorials
• National Wildlife Refuges
• National Preserves
• National Conservation Areas
• National Archeological Sites
• National Scenic Trails
• National Wild and Scenic Rivers