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Lichen Pine publishes downloadable PDF field guides for 65 U.S. national parks. Each guide covers the best trails and viewpoints, permits and reservations, wildlife and safety, when to go, and where to stay, so you can plan a trip and take the guide with you. Buy one park, or save 15% on a state or regional bundle.
North America's tallest peak, a bus-only road, and some of the least-habituated wildlife in the park system.
No roads, no trails, no visitor center — just the Brooks Range and total wilderness.
No roads at all — a tidewater-glacier wilderness reached only by boat or plane.
A volcanic landscape reborn as the best place on Earth to watch wild brown bears fish for salmon.
Tidewater glaciers, a mountain-sized icefield, and fjords full of whales and orcas.
No roads, no trails, no campgrounds — just sand dunes, a wild river, and a 9,000-year-old caribou crossing.
A roadless wilderness of turquoise lakes and smoking volcanoes, reachable only by floatplane.
The largest national park in the United States — bigger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Switzerland combined.
Five islands, one marine sanctuary, and California the way it looked before people arrived.
The hottest, driest, lowest place in North America — home to the world's official heat record.
Ancient bristlecone pines, a marble show cave, and some of the darkest night skies in the country, all beneath a single lonely desert peak.
Boulder scrambles, otherworldly trees, and some of the darkest skies in Southern California — where two deserts meet.
Home of the General Grant Tree and one of the deepest canyons in the country, from Grant Grove's giant sequoias to the wild Cedar Grove canyon floor.
A still-active volcanic landscape of steaming vents, boiling mud pots, and a plug-dome peak that last erupted in 1915.
Volcanic spires, talus caves, and condors soaring over California's Gabilan Range.
Four parks working as one, fog-drip forests holding the tallest trees on Earth, and a coastline of elk, tide pools, and Fern Canyon green.
Home of the General Sherman Tree and the largest trees on Earth, from Giant Forest's ancient groves to the alpine heights of Mount Whitney.
Granite giants, waterfalls, and a permit lottery — Yosemite Valley demystified.
A volcanic summit above the clouds and a lush rainforest coast, from sunrise over the crater to the Pools of 'Ohe'o at Kipahulu.
An active eruption you can watch from a safe overlook — a park that changes day to day.
The only U.S. national park south of the equator, on land still owned by Samoan villages.
Eroded spires and canyons holding the world's richest Oligocene fossil beds.
No entrance fee, a scenic railroad, and the river that helped create the EPA — the park between two cities.
A 630-foot catenary curve on the St. Louis riverfront, and at just 193 acres, the smallest national park in the system.
Fifteen miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, towering dunes, and one of the most biodiverse national parks in the country, an hour from downtown Chicago.
A roadless wilderness island in Lake Superior, reachable only by boat or seaplane.
Wild bison and layered badlands buttes across two remote units, in the landscape that shaped Roosevelt's conservation legacy.
A national park you explore by boat — four interconnected lakes along the Canadian border, named for the fur-trade canoemen who once paddled them.
One of the world's longest, most complex caves under an unbroken swath of native prairie.
Carriage roads, granite peaks, and a sunrise reservation — Mount Desert Island demystified.
One of the oldest rivers on the continent, cut through a deep Appalachian gorge and spanned by a legendary steel arch bridge.
105 miles of Skyline Drive along the crest of the Blue Ridge.
The deepest lake in the United States, filled entirely by snow and rain inside a collapsed volcano.
An active volcano wearing 25 glaciers, ringed by wildflower meadows and five very different ways to see it.
Jagged glaciated peaks, a turquoise reservoir, and a village you can only reach by boat.
Rainforest, mountains, and coast — three ecosystems in one park, demystified.
A canyon so steep and shadowed that some walls see only 33 minutes of sunlight a day.
Going-to-the-Sun Road, grizzly country, and vanishing glaciers — the Crown of the Continent demystified.
Jagged peaks, grizzlies, and a glacial lake — Jackson Hole demystified.
The tallest dunes in North America, rising from a mountain-ringed valley in southern Colorado.
Nearly 5,000 archeological sites and the best-preserved cliff dwellings in North America, built into sandstone canyon walls over 700 years of Ancestral Puebloan history.
Trail Ridge Road, alpine tundra, and a timed-entry system — demystified.
The world's first national park — geysers, grizzlies, and a 142-mile road loop, demystified.
95% water — coral reefs, mangrove shoreline, and island keys minutes from Miami.
The largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States, where champion trees rise from a floodplain that floods on purpose.
A coral-reef archipelago 70 miles from Key West, reachable only by boat or seaplane.
A slow-moving river of grass stretching to the horizon, home to alligators, roseate spoonbills, and the only place on Earth where crocodiles and alligators coexist.
The country's most-visited national park — bears, ridgelines, and fast-changing weather, demystified.
A national park built inside a city, where century-old bathhouses line a promenade over thermal springs still filling the tubs today.
The longest known cave system on Earth, more than 426 miles mapped, beneath a quiet Kentucky forest along the Green River.
The highest concentration of natural stone arches on Earth — and an International Dark Sky Park after dark.
Canyons, cliff dwellings, and twin buttes sacred to five tribes — a landscape with no single entrance.
Where the Rio Grande carves three great canyons beneath the volcanic Chisos Mountains and some of the darkest skies in the Lower 48.
The world's largest concentration of hoodoos, a rim you can walk end to end, and some of the darkest skies in the country.
A vast desert wilderness of sandstone canyons, mesas, and spires, cut by the Green and Colorado Rivers.
A 100-mile fold in the earth, hidden pioneer orchards, and Utah's quietest canyons.
More than 119 known caves beneath the Chihuahuan Desert, anchored by the Big Room and a nightly bat flight that fills the sky.
Rim to river — trails, viewpoints, and permits demystified.
Slot canyons, a rising staircase of colored cliffs, and one of the last places mapped in the continental US.
Texas's highest peaks, an ancient fossil reef, and some of the most rugged solitude in the National Park System.
Painted Desert badlands and ancient fossilized log fields.
The Sonoran Desert's cactus forest, mapped out for you.
The largest gypsum dunefield on Earth, a single scenic drive, and sledding down brilliant white dunes.
Red-rock canyon walls, a mandatory shuttle, and a permit lottery — demystified.
Powder-white beaches, coral reefs, and Danish sugar plantation ruins on the island of St. John.