Summer doesn’t quite feel like summer without the freedom to vacate your lives at least for a little while, right? Maybe you have decided to terminate or at least delay the family road trip this summer because of the Coronavirus risk flooding the nation. Traveling by airplanes and other mass transit can still be quite risky, but you have many options for yourself.
Various National Parks Are Still Open
Think about this…You have the option of taking your home with you. Yes, constantly wearing masks in the overheated, summer public can be uncomfortable. But, with an RV just for your family and visiting wide open spaces without seeing any other visitors nearby, it is like taking your home with you.
Now, with these added steps of following the medical and scientific professionals’ recommendations for social distancing and masks, you can still see some of the greatest American national parks. From late May to the end of June, many lists have been published about the number of parks nationwide that will be open for visiting.
Even though most of these will not have any of the cabins or camping areas open with the number of cases and deaths rising, you still may have the option to make your visits, spending quality family time together in the best possible nature despite the darkness of the pandemic.
40 National Parks for Your Travels
- Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming
- Acadia National Park, Maine
- Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin
- Arches National Park, Utah
- Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland/Virginia
- Badlands National Park, South Dakota
- Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
- Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana/Wyoming
- Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, Tennessee/Kentucky
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
- Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
- Buffalo National River, Arkansas
- Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts
- Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia
- Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma
- Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
- Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
- Dinosaur National Monument, Utah/Colorado
- Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
- Fire Island National Seashore, New York
- Flight 93 National Memorial, Pennsylvania
- Fort Frederica National Monument, Georgia
- Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Site, Maryland
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Oregon/Washington
- Friendship Hill National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
- Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri
- Gateway National Recreation Area, New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area
- Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota
- Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii
- Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana
- Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
- Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Note that this is only a portion of the dozens or even hundreds of national parks that originally opened in June while the state of the nation was in “phased reopening.” Many states have returned to incredible spikes in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19,
For this reason, you should steer clear of those areas out of respect for the latest regulation updates. So, put on your masks in public and ENJOY the nation with the greatest health and safety possible!
