By state

National parks in Delaware

Every National Park Service unit in Delaware, scored and ranked by our Experience Score.

A heron at sunset in the waters and marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

100ESSENTIAL NPS Photo / Middleton Evans

National Historic Trail · VA

Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

This is not a park you visit so much as a waterway you inhabit.

Red, yellow, and green leaves lay on the grass in front of a colonial building.

76EXCELLENT NPS Photo

National Historical Park · DE

First State National Historical Park

First State National Historical Park is a genuinely underrated free park that stitches together Delaware and Pennsylvania landscapes with real historical weight.

A view of docks and boats in the waterside town of Cape Charles VA

50NICHE NPS Photo

Park · DC

Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay Park is less a single destination than a coordinating framework across a massive mid-Atlantic watershed.

26NICHE NPS Photo

National Historic Trail · MA

Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail

This 680-mile corridor traces the 1781 march of Washington and Rochambeau from Newport to Yorktown, the campaign that effectively ended the Revolutionary War.