It's not easy picking a park when there's so many to choose from. "Parknet", the NPS's stylishly informative website, provides extensive visitor travel information. The "Find a Park" search engine locates by region, park name or state map. "InfoZone" details the NPS's services, while

"Links to the Past" highlights the people, historic places, and events that shaped our national park system. Still can't decide? Then try the "Geology Tour"—facts and figures on everything from sand dunes to volcanoes match your interests with a particular park.

Billed as the "Total Yellowstone Page," this website serves the world's first national park, established in 1872. This meta-site has more information than you can shake a stick at--over 40 regularly updated links, ranging from a search engine to listings of ranger-led programs at Yellowstone, activities, and other nature links.

You'll find a strong voice here, with bear stories told round the campfire by rangers, a bulletin board, and humorous anecdotes by "Yellowstone fanatics," like the man who killed time waiting for the local pizza place to open by touring the park.

By land, air, or river--however you'd like to see it, this website practically puts you on the North Rim. Feature stories give it a magazine's depth, and comprehensive information makes it a newspaper, chamber of commerce, and travel agent all-in-one.

If the Canyon itself isn't enough, the site also highlights other area attractions in Arizona. Plus, you can send a digital postcard from the "Gallery" before you even get there in person.

A service of the Yosemite-Sierra Visitors Bureau, this cleanly designed site puts it all on one home page. Yosemite's famous highlights--for example, El Capitan and Yosemite Falls--are described in detail. What you don't find in "Most Asked Questions" can be discovered in General Information.

Where can you stay in "Gold Country"? An incredibly detailed page rates lodging in a easy to read chart, with amenities listed at-a-glance. And the interactive map for precisely planning your trip door-to-door is an added highlight. One click to a free 60 page visitors guide will soon have you wondering if "there's gold in them thar hills."

Beautiful pictures welcome you to Florida's famous Everglades, a shallow freshwater river running only a few inches deep but 50 miles wide. If you're looking to do some paddling, fishing, or birding, the Everglades is the place to indulge. "Practicalities" couldn't be more practical, for lodging, local weather, and transportation information.

Zion joined the ranks of national parks in 1909. These canyons and deserts were once the home of the Anasazi people and later, the Southern Paiutes. Walks and hikes are laid beckon from the site's trail page. There's good information on folklife and art festivals here, perfect for exploring the history and nature of the West.

Located in Alaska, Denali is the home to Mount McKinley, North America's highest mountain. This is the destination if you're looking for a true untouched wilderness, where moose, bear, sheep, caribou, fox and other animals live.

Want to climb Mt. McKinley? There's a "how-to" page on that too. A reservations and services page and weather information round out this serious adventurer's website.

Enter the "Visitor Center" where there's information on fishing for rainbow trout, or get directions for the 11 mile loop road around Cades Cove (settlers first arrived there in 1850). "History" plumbs the Smokies's Cherokee past and "Mtn. People" highlights historical trails, locales, and structures.

This is an easy-to-read site, with a variety of pictures and lots of links for dining, shops, music and area attractions, including the must-do's "Halloween Hayride" and "Molasses Making." You'll feel the warm sun on your skin and smell the fresh air when you explore these websites. Remember, "leave only footprints and take only pictures." Natureawaits you....