Parks of the World
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Parks featured on our site
Explore the snow-capped Canadian Rockies, dive along the Great Barrier Reef, or watch leopards hunt in a South African game reserve with selected world parks coverage by National Geographic magazine. Stay tuned as these pages are updated with future stories and photos and new parks are added to our expanding list.
Park Features
Photo: Bear cubs playing
After years of controversy, British Columbia has created the Great Bear Rainforest, a national park that protects part of the only temperate rain forest in the world.
Photo: Field of wild flowers
View our interactive map to explore photographer Michael Melford's photographic journey through Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park.
Photo: pronghorn at Badlands National Park
National Geographic and the National Park Service have formed a partnership to increase public awareness of our national parks in the United States.




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