National Park Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A traveler wants a park with a rocky Atlantic shoreline, historic carriage roads, and Cadillac Mountain. Where should they go?
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
Shenandoah National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Acadia National Park
2. Which park protects the active volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa?
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Haleakalā National Park
Crater Lake National Park
3. From Bartlett Cove, a visitor plans a boat trip through a namesake Alaskan bay known for tidewater glaciers and glacier-carved fjords. Which park is this?
Kenai Fjords National Park
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
4. A hiker plans to wade through the Virgin River between towering canyon walls on a route called The Narrows. Which park are they visiting?
Zion National Park
Capitol Reef National Park
Canyonlands National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
5. To learn about Ancestral Pueblo communities while viewing Cliff Palace and other large cliff dwellings, which park should a traveler visit?
Petrified Forest National Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
6. Which U.S. site was established as the country's first national park in 1872?
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite National Park
Sequoia National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
7. Which river is primarily responsible for carving the Grand Canyon?
Colorado River
Columbia River
Green River
Rio Grande
8. Badwater Basin, a salt flat below sea level, is found in which national park?
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
White Sands National Park
Great Basin National Park
Death Valley National Park
9. A landscape is described as a slow-moving “River of Grass” flowing through sawgrass wetlands in southern Florida. Which park protects much of it?
Biscayne National Park
Congaree National Park
Everglades National Park
Dry Tortugas National Park
10. Which national park is the destination for someone hoping to see Denali, the highest mountain in North America?
Mount Rainier National Park
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Denali National Park and Preserve
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
11. A photographer wants to visit Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, and a dense concentration of naturally formed sandstone arches. Which park should they choose?
Bryce Canyon National Park
Arches National Park
Capitol Reef National Park
Canyonlands National Park
12. You want to see El Capitan and Half Dome, then visit giant sequoias in Mariposa Grove. Which park fits that plan?
Kings Canyon National Park
Yosemite National Park
Redwood National Park
Sequoia National Park
13. Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the border between which two states?
Virginia and West Virginia
North Carolina and Tennessee
North Carolina and Virginia
Kentucky and Tennessee
14. Which park lies where the Mojave and Colorado desert ecosystems meet and is named for a distinctive branching plant?
Death Valley National Park
Saguaro National Park
Joshua Tree National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
15. A history-minded traveler wants to see North Dakota badlands, the Maltese Cross Cabin, and landscapes associated with a president's conservation legacy. Which park fits?
Badlands National Park
Wind Cave National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Voyageurs National Park
16. Why is Yellowstone's Old Faithful classified as a geyser rather than a hot spring, fumarole, or mudpot?
Its heated water stays in a relatively still surface pool.
Its acidic water mixes with clay to form bubbling mud.
It releases mainly steam and gases without erupting water.
It periodically ejects heated water and steam through a vent.