The Best Idea

Olympic National Park

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called the national parks of the United States the country's best idea, so visiting those parks would probably be a pretty good notion too.

US-parks.com promotes and advocates for our parks, and the organization also provides a park locator to make finding the parks easy. You can also find a park by using the National Wildlife Federation's Nature Find, which I blogged about in 2011.

Our national and state parks are great places and create wonderful opportunities to connect with our environment. Use the tools above to make the idea of visiting them a reality now and in the future.