Green Island National Park
Queensland, Australia
Green Island is a tiny coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, twenty-seven kilometres off the city of Cairns in tropical…
7 tickets & tours
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A small park can protect a single thing perfectly: a coral cay, a waterfall, a crater, a colony of seals. Green Island, off Cairns, is about twelve hectares of rainforest on a reef; Mapleton Falls is a lookout and a short loop; Robberg is a peninsula you can walk around before lunch. For a visitor, small is often an advantage, since these are parks that can be seen properly in an hour or two and that usually sit close to a city or a resort.
Mapleton Falls National Park
Queensland, Australia
Mapleton Falls is one of the smallest national parks in Queensland, a pocket of rainforest and eucalypt forest round a…
No online ticket
La Paz Waterfall Gardens
Costa Rica
La Paz Waterfall Gardens is a privately owned nature park and wildlife refuge on the eastern slope of the Poás volcano,…
3 tickets & tours
Atitlán Nature Reserve
Guatemala
The Reserva Natural Atitlán is a small private nature reserve on the edge of Panajachel, the main tourist town on the…
2 tickets & tours
Sultanpur National Park
Haryana, India
Sultanpur is a small bird sanctuary round a shallow lake on the plains of Haryana, fifteen kilometres beyond the office…
2 tickets & tours
Robberg Nature Reserve
Western Cape, South Africa
Robberg is a rocky peninsula, four kilometres long, that juts into the Indian Ocean eight kilometres south of the…
1 ticket or tour
El Boquerón National Park
El Salvador
El Boquerón is the crater of the San Salvador volcano, which looms directly over the capital of El Salvador, and the…
2 tickets & tours
Metropolitan Natural Park
Panama
The Parque Natural Metropolitano is a tract of tropical forest inside the limits of Panama City, ten to fifteen minutes…
2 tickets & tours
Sa Dragonera Natural Park
Balearic Islands, Spain
Sa Dragonera is a long, narrow, uninhabited island lying a few hundred metres off the south-western tip of Mallorca,…
3 tickets & tours
Chicaque Natural Park
Colombia
Chicaque is a privately owned cloud-forest reserve on the south-western rim of the high plateau on which Bogotá stands,…
3 tickets & tours
Sataplia Nature Reserve
Georgia
Sataplia is a small hilltop reserve of forest, caves and dinosaur footprints about ten kilometres, twenty minutes by…
2 tickets & tours
Cape Greco National Forest Park
Cyprus
Cape Greco is the rocky headland at the south-eastern corner of Cyprus, midway between the two resorts of Ayia Napa,…
1 ticket or tour
The list ranks the parks in this catalogue by recorded area, smallest first. A few entries are private reserves or nature parks rather than national parks in the strict sense, and their pages make the distinction.