World’s top 10 most beautiful national parks includes a California gem

We could also be obsessive about our personal nationwide parks, however we’re not the one nation to treasure and shield their landscapes by a protracted shot. There are greater than 6,000 nationwide parks world wide, from Costa Rica’s Corcovado to New Zealand’s Fiordland, the place retreating glaciers carved 15 dramatic fjords into the alpine panorama on the finish of the ice age.

Now TheLuxuryTravelExpert.com has ranked the ten most stunning parks, an unattainable activity as a result of they’re all so beautiful in such alternative ways. Chile’s Torres del Paine and its sheer mountains, crystalline lakes and glaciers prime an inventory that additionally contains Namibia’s huge, arid Namib-Naukluft Nationwide Park (No. 2) and Australia’s Kakadu (No. 9). The latter, which is so immense, it’s half the dimensions of Switzerland, is managed by Parks Australia in cooperation with the indigenous individuals who have lived right here for the final 65,000 years.

California’s Yosemite Nationwide Park makes the listing, too, at No. 5, which makes this an ideal alternative to say: When you have been planning to go to that park this summer time, keep in mind that reservations are required to drive into or by way of the Yosemite Valley between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. from now by way of Sept. 30. When you didn’t snag a reservation, you are able to do a pre-dawn drive or — higher — trip in on one of many Yosemite Space Regional Transportation System (YARTS) buses. Or you possibly can go to Hetch Hetchy, which is on the considerably much less crowded, northern finish of the park.

In the meantime, right here’s the highest 10.

1 Torres del Paine Nationwide Park, Chile

2 Namib-Naukluft Nationwide Park, Namibia

3 Glacier Nationwide Park, Montana and Canada

4 Serengeti Nationwide Park, Tanzania

5 Yosemite, California

6 Fiordland Nationwide Park, New Zealand

7 Yellowstone Nationwide Park, Wyoming

8 Corcovado Nationwide Park, Costa Rica

9 Kakadu Nationwide Park, Australia

10 Canaima Nationwide Park, Venezuela