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25 Best Places to Visit on the West Coast for Your Bucket List

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25 Best Places to Visit on the West Coast for Your Bucket List

Introduction - From Washington's North Cascades National Park to Texas' Guadalupe Mountains National Park, this list has all the parks the West...

 
 

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Place To Visit 1 - Capitol Reef National Park is most famous for " The Waterpocket Fold," commonly referred to as a geological wrinkle on...

 
 

Arches National Park, Utah

Place To Visit 2 - Arches National Park can be found in eastern Utah. It is home to over 2,000 stone arches. Along with the...

 
 

Joshua Tree National Park, California

Place To Visit 3 - Joshua Tree National Park is open all year and offers stunning vistas of its iconic namesake. Connecting two distinct deserts...

 
 

Zion National Park, Utah

Place To Visit 4 - Zion National Park was once home to an ancient tribe known as the Anasazi, and you can still see traces...

 
 

Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

Place To Visit 5 - Mount Rainier National Park is named after Mount Rainier, an active volcano. It hasn't erupted in almost 1,000 years and...

 
 

Glacier National Park, Montana

Place To Visit 6 - Glacier National Park is one of North America's hidden treasures. Over 700 miles of marked trails take you through lush...

 
 

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Place To Visit 7 - Badlands National Park is home to one of the most studied fossil beds in the world. Scientists have found ancient...

 
 

Death Valley National Park, California

Place To Visit 8 - Death Valley National Park claims itself to be the hottest, driest, and lowest of all the national parks. It is...

 
 

Denali National Park, Alaska

Place To Visit 9 - Denali is one of the most untouched national parks in Western US. It has over six million acres of wildland...

 
 
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

Place To Visit 10 - Carlsbad Caverns National Park is home to over 100 caves. The caves were formed close to 4 million years ago...

 
 

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