WorksheetsHow well do you know our National Parks?
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
What national park reaches into three states?
Great Smoky Mountains
Yellowstone
Grand Canyon
Death Valley
The largest national park is...
Haleakala on Maui, with that giant volcanic cone
Yellowstone, with all those geyser fields
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, because, oh, it's Alaska
Redwoods, with all those tall trees
What president signed legislation to establish the first national park?
Franklin Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses S. Grant
James Garfield
What national park had the most recreational visitors in 2015?
Great Smoky Mountains
Grand Canyon
Acadia
Badlands
If you shot a selfie in front of the Tower of Babel, stopped off to see the Parade of Elephants, then took a hike to see Eye of the Whale, you’d be:
Peeking at peaks in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Agog over rock formations at Arches National Park, Utah.
Dodging gators at Everglades National Park, Florida, after stopping by the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota.
Checking out stalactites in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
Which state has the most national parks?
Colorado
Alaska
Utah
California
The southernmost U.S. national park is in
Texas
Hawaii
Florida
American Samoa
Which of these National Park Service units is a prehistoric American Indian site?
Nicodemus National Historic Site, Kansas
Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
Sequoia National Park, California
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan
If you visit a park site that tells the story of patriotic female laborers in the 1940s, you’re at
First Ladies National Historic Site, Ohio
Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland
Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, California
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.
What is the only U.S. national park that regularly flies the Union Jack flag of Great Britain?
San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, MA
Minute Man National Historical Park, MA
Virgin Islands National Park, U.S. Virgin Islands
Which is NOT a landmark in Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park?
Paradise
Camp Muir
Mammoth Cave
Indian Henry's Hunting Ground
Which is NOT a landmark in California’s Yosemite National Park?
Half Dome
Inspiration Point
Going-to-the-Sun Road
El Capitan
Which is NOT a landmark in Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
Clingmans Dome
Cades Cove
Oconaluftee Valley
West Thumb
Which is NOT a landmark in Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park?
The Great White Throne
Bright Angel Point
Phantom Ranch
North Rim
Which is NOT in California?
Channel Islands National Park
Joshua Tree National Park
Isle Royale National Park
Kings Canyon National Park
Who is NOT commemorated by a national park or national historic site?
Theodore Roosevelt
Edgar Allan Poe
Jimmy Carter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which is NOT the name of a national park?
Canyonlands
Waimea Canyon
Bryce Canyon
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Which national park contains the highest mountain in North America?
North Cascades National Park, Washington
Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Denali National Park, Alaska
What Western U.S. national park is a regular destination for large cruise ships?
Glacier Bay
Glacier
Great Basin
Great Sand Dunes
What national park includes the prison cell of a convicted conspirator – later pardoned – in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln?
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Congaree National Park, South Carolina
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Which national park has the deepest lake in the U.S.?
Lake Clark in Alaska
Crater Lake in Oregon
Grand Teton in Wyoming
Shenandoah in Virginia
What causes the blue haze for which Great Smoky Mountains National Park is named?
Cars
Fires
Plants
Animals
Which president signed the National Park Service into being in 1916?
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
William Taft
At the turn of the 20th century, which national park hosted spring training for some U.S. baseball teams?
Everglades in Florida
Mesa Verde in Colorado
Biscayne in Florida
Hot Springs in Arkansas
Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch hid out in the canyons of which national park?
Grand Canyon in Arizona
Canyonlands in Utah
Rocky Mountain in Colorado
Great Basin in Nevada
Carbon Glacier in this national park has the greatest thickness and volume of any glacier in the continental U.S.
Glacier National Park
Denali National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
Zion National Park
Which national park includes the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River?
Acadia
Isle Royale
Cuyahoga Valley
Everglades
The most massive single mountain on Earth is located in which national park?
Rocky Mountain
Hawaii Volcanoes
Yosemite
Guadalupe Mountains
Which of the following national parks is the newest?
Great Sand Dune National Park, Colorado
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia
Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri
Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana
