# parks

Name: Death Valley
Location: California, Nevada
Area: 3,408,395.63 acres (13,793.3 km2)
Recreation Visitors (2022): 1,128,862
Description:
Death Valley is the hottest, lowest, and driest place in the United States, with daytime temperatures that have exceeded 130 F (54 C).


Name: Everglades
Location: Alaska
Area: 7,523,897.45 acres (30,448.1 km2)
Recreation Visitors (2022): 9,457
Description:
The country's northernmost park protects an expanse of pure wilderness in Alaska's Brooks Range and has no park facilities.  


Name: Katmai
Location: Alaska
Area: 3,674,529.33 acres (14,870.3 km2)
Recreation Visitors (2022): 33,908
Description:
This park on the Alaska Peninsula protects the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an ash flow formed by the 1912 eruption of Novarupta.


