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Best mountain parks to visit worldwide

Mountain parks are the largest group in the catalogue and the most varied: the Himalaya of Sagarmatha and Langtang, where a visit is a trek of a week or more; the Rockies of Banff, Jasper and Grand Teton, seen mostly from a road and a string of short trails; the Alps and Pyrenees, with their huts and cable cars; and hills small enough for a day out of a city, such as Sintra-Cascais beside Lisbon, Tijuca above Rio or Bukhansan on the Seoul metro.

Itatiaia National Park

Brazil

Itatiaia is the oldest national park in Brazil, in the Mantiqueira mountains on the border of the states of Rio de…

3 tickets & tours

Kootenay National Park

British Columbia, Canada

Kootenay is the least visited of the four contiguous national parks of the Canadian Rockies, on the British Columbia…

3 tickets & tours

Llogara National Park

Albania

Llogara is a small park of pine forest around a mountain pass on the coast road of southern Albania, and nearly…

3 tickets & tours

Naejangsan National Park

South Korea

Naejangsan is a compact mountain park in the south-west of South Korea, on the border of North and South Jeolla…

3 tickets & tours

Pyhä-Luosto National Park

Finland

Pyhä-Luosto is a chain of fells in central Finnish Lapland, about 130 kilometres and an hour and a half to two hours…

3 tickets & tours

Seoraksan National Park

South Korea

Seoraksan is the most celebrated mountain park in South Korea, a mass of jagged granite peaks on the north-east coast,…

3 tickets & tours

Singalila National Park

West Bengal, India

Singalila is a high forested ridge on the frontier between India and Nepal, in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal, and…

3 tickets & tours

Učka Nature Park

Croatia

Učka is the mountain that rises straight out of the sea behind the old Austrian resort of Opatija and the Kvarner…

3 tickets & tours

Alpine National Park

Victoria, Australia

Alpine National Park is the largest park in Victoria, the high country of the Australian Alps between Mount Hotham,…

2 tickets & tours

Glenveagh National Park

Ireland

Glenveagh is a remote glen with a lake, a castle and a great deal of empty mountain, in the north-west of County…

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Helderberg Nature Reserve

Western Cape, South Africa

Helderberg is a small municipal nature reserve on the mountain slope directly above the town of Somerset West, at the…

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Huascaran National Park

Peru

Huascaran National Park covers almost the whole of the Cordillera Blanca, the white range, in the department of Ancash…

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Pamir National Park

Tajikistan

The Pamir National Park, officially the Tajik National Park, takes in the empty centre of the Pamir mountains in…

2 tickets & tours

Retezat National Park

Romania

Retezat is a compact massif of granite peaks and glacial lakes in the Southern Carpathians, in Hunedoara county in the…

2 tickets & tours

Shebenik National Park

Albania

Shebenik, in full Shebenik-Jabllanice, is a large mountain park in eastern Albania, along the border with North…

2 tickets & tours

Ugam-Chatkal National Park

Uzbekistan

Ugam-Chatkal is the mountain country of Uzbekistan, the western end of the Tien Shan, which rises abruptly from the…

2 tickets & tours

Gorkhi-Terelj National Park

Mongolia

Gorkhi-Terelj is the nearest national park to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, its entrance lying about fifty-five…

1 ticket or tour

Gran Paradiso National Park

Aosta Valley, Italy

Gran Paradiso is the oldest national park in Italy and the best place in the Alps to see ibex at close quarters, a high…

1 ticket or tour