Pulitzer prize-winning Aquarius novelist Wallace Stegner maintained, “National parks are one of the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our greatest reasonably than our worst.”
Our civic best is comprised of 58 national parks, and 333 national monuments and historic sites. The National Park Service is represented in 49 out of fifty states, the rogue outlier being Delaware, the primary state and the just one to go without.
In honor of spring, we’ve designated a National Park that suits the spirit of every zodiac sign. Read on to learn more.
If survival is a top priority, peruse our list of the deadliest National Parks here. For a roundup of highlights and superlatives courtesy of a pair that has visited every National Park in the US, see here.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Aries is the first-born register the zodiac and in 1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act establishing the park as the primary of its kind. Volcanic and chock filled with big hits, big game, hot springs, and energetic geysers the similarities between Yellowstone and the impulsive, explosive energy of the cardinal fire sign are plenty. You may all the time count on Aries to lose their cool, making them the Old Faithful of the zodiac.
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
All the way down to work up a sweat but hell-bent on a cushty come down, Taurus folks will find rugged rest at Hot Springs National Park. As an Earth sign that goes hard but sometimes struggles to go inside, a superb long soak within the park’s healing thermal waters is an ideal treatment for what ails the mind, body, and spirit. Float on baby.
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
Gemini reminds us that all of us contain multitudes and Great Sand Dunes National Park reveals that Colorado does too. Often related to snowy peaks and tall pines, the Centennial State can also be home to an enormous desert. Like several conversation with a Gemini, exploring the dunes is an interesting endeavor vulnerable to leave you lost.
As with the mercurial twins, temperatures on the dunes are extreme, storms are common and there’s little in the best way of shelter. Also fitting for the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants air signs, there aren’t any limitations, timed entries, or reservations for visiting the park.
Acadia National Park, Maine
Cancer is the sign of nostalgia and rose-colored rememberings and Acadia National Park with its fishing villages and staggering coastline recalls a time before the damage of development.
The park website whimsically decrees, “Acadia touches something within us. Beyond just beautiful, the park is an interwoven fabric of meaning.”
Feels like a Cancer sucking on nitrous balloons to me, folks.
While Cancer landscape artist Sanford Robinson immortalized the natural fantastic thing about Acadia within the mid-Nineteenth century, the park’s network of car-free carriage roads is owed to the vision of one other crab; thin-lipped and filthy-rich business magnate John D. Rockefeller.
Haleakalā National Park, Hawai’i
Leo governs the guts and is ruled by the fiery light of the sun. In kind and crust, the crater that provides Haleakalā National Park its name is thought to natives because the “House of the Sun.” Rising over 10,000 feet above sea level the crater has been a pilgrimage point for hundreds of years, from ancient priests to modern-day spiritual seekers searching for soul clarity and heart mending.
Zion National Park, Utah
The symbol for Virgo is the virgin/maiden and apropos of this, it’s the mighty Virgin River that snakes through Zion National Park. A Mercury-ruled earth sign, Virgo is synonymous with service, sustenance, and deliberate abundance. In-kind and bloom, Zion supports nearly 1,000 native plant species and 124,400 acres of designated wilderness.
North Cascades National Park, Washington
Libra is the sign of terminal indecision and North Cascades National Park is split into two ecosystems: a temperate rainforest to the west and a dryer ponderosa pine to the east. The Park also offers myriad day hikes for this flagrantly noncommittal air sign.
Ruled by Venus, there isn’t any yet one more unrepentantly bougie than Libra (save for a Taurus after they’re of their feels and racking up their bank card debt). The ‘bring me to my fainting couch and coup glass’ people of the scales can justly retire to the Sun Mountain Lodge, sitting pretty and living luxe just outside the park within the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains.
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Rulers of the eighth house of sex, death, and secrets, Scorpios haven’t any fear of the dark, and dark skies are certainly one of the various qualities that make Joshua Tree National Park value visiting. If you happen to are hoping to benefit from the stargazing, plan to go to as near a latest moon as possible and stick with the east side of the park, which is less affected by light pollution than the west.
Add to the fixed stars and dark waters that grievous angel and apex Scorpio Gram Parsons died of a drug overdose in room number 8 of the Joshua Tree Inn, just outside the park entrance. Making good on a late-night pact, Parson’s friends hijacked his stays and delivered them to the Joshua Tree desert where they doused his casket in gasoline and let a match turn their pal to ash, giving live birth to a legendary end.
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Sagittarius is synonymous with the seeker who’s all the time trying to play pirate and go further than the sting and people it doesn’t get much further than Dry Tortugas National Park. Situated 70 miles west of Key West, the park is accessible only by boat or seaplane.
A distinguished feature of the park is Fort Jefferson. Once a strategic point of naval defense, the fort was also used as a jail for Union deserters. Perhaps probably the most famous inmate was Sagittarius Samuel Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth and was sentenced to life in prison for his association with the assassin.
Olympic National Forest, Washington
Named for a city that seeded the spirit of competitive excellence, Olympic National Park sings to the spirit of progress in any respect costs, death before second place sign of Capricorn.
Rulers of the tenth house of legacy, Capricorn represents the old guard and old growth and this park is home to trees that date back to the time of the Crusades. Ever on their proverbial grind with a watch on ascent personal, fiscal, and otherwise, sea goats will appreciate the range of this park that gives the chance to rise from shoreline to rainforest to alpine peak.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Aquarius is the zodiac’s outlier. As they often feel like aliens, this fixed air sign requires a good amount of space and solitude making the distant wilderness of Denali National Park pure bliss bait. Home to the tallest summit in North America this park is accessible only by a single road, a rugged individualism water bearers will resonate with.
Because the Denali website chest bumps/maintains, “Our goal is to offer visitors with the technique of self-reliance and self-discovery; to encourage hikers to search out what appeals to them reasonably than following specific routes…the trail you select within the backcountry will likely be your individual.”
Here I’m going again alone, getting high on altitude and the smug superiority of self-reliance? An Aquarius poem.
Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
Pisces is a mutable water sign and over a 3rd of Voyageurs National Park is comprised of water. The park’s pristine inaccessibility ensures crowds are a nonissue, making it an ideal place for a Pisces to flee, skinny dip, and solid off the psychic detritus and codependent attachments that so easily affix to their care bear hearts and vapor cloud minds.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, popular culture, and private experience. She can also be an achieved author who has profiled quite a lot of artists and performers, in addition to extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling. Amongst the various intriguing topics she has tackled are cemetery etiquette, her love for dive bars, a “girl’s guide” to strip clubs, and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.