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Zion National Park
Zion National Park, established in 1919 as Utah's first national park, is defined by the dramatic sandstone canyon carved by the Virgin River, whose sheer red and cream-colored cliffs rise up to 2,000 feet directly above the canyon floor in some of the park's most iconic sections. The park's Angels Landing hike, a famously narrow trail with chain handholds bolted into the rock along a knife-edge ridge with sheer drop-offs on both sides, became so popular and congested that the National Park Service implemented a permit lottery system in 2022 specifically to manage visitor safety and trail overcrowding. The Narrows, a hike that involves wading and sometimes swimming directly through the Virgin River between towering, closely spaced canyon walls, offers a genuinely different kind of hiking experience from Zion's more conventional trails, with sections of the canyon narrowing to just 20 to 30 feet wide between walls that rise a thousand feet or more overhead. Zion's combination of its dramatic sandstone canyon walls, the famously exposed Angels Landing hike now requiring a permit lottery, and the genuinely unique river-wading experience of the Narrows has made it one of the most physically adventurous and consistently popular national parks in the entire American Southwest.
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Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park, established in 1919 as the first national park east of the Mississippi River, sits primarily on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine, its rocky Atlantic shoreline and forested granite peaks a genuinely different landscape from the more famous western parks that dominate most Americans' mental image of the park system. The park owes its existence substantially to wealthy summer residents, including members of the Rockefeller family, who donated large portions of their own private landholdings on Mount Desert Island specifically to ensure the area's preservation rather than its development into private estates, an unusually philanthropy-driven origin story compared with most western parks carved from federal land. John D. Rockefeller Jr. personally funded and helped design the park's roughly 45 miles of carriage roads, a network of crushed-stone paths built specifically to be free of automobiles, still used today for biking, hiking, and horseback riding exactly as Rockefeller originally intended when he financed their construction in the early 20th century. Acadia's combination of being the first national park established east of the Mississippi, its philanthropy-driven founding by wealthy summer residents, and Rockefeller's still-intact car-free carriage road network has made it one of the most distinctively founded and historically layered national parks in the entire system.
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