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Outside Magazine May 2002
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Destinations: National Parks
The Best of the Rest (Cont.)

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK
Homestead, Florida / 1.5 million acres
Spend seven to ten days CANOEING or KAYAKING the mangrove-lined, 99-mile Wilderness Waterway, which winds north-south through southern Florida's marshlands and is filled with gators, snowy and great egrets, and manatees. Hate skeeters? Go in January or February.
305-242-7700, www.nps.gov/ever

GATES OF THE ARCTIC NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE
Bettles, Alaska / 8.5 million acres
Fly from Bettles to Circle Lake, in the park's southwestern corner, and spend a week BACKPACKING (and bushwhacking) among the granite spires of the isolated, 7,000-foot Arrigetch Peaks. Backcountry navigation skills are a must.
907-457-5752, www.nps.gov/gaar

GLACIER BAY NATIONAL AND PRESERVE
Gustavus, Alaska / 3.3 million acres
The only sounds you'll hear as you sea kayak among 5,000-foot peaks in the fjords of icy Muir Inlet are lapping waves, barking sea lions, and the occasional crash of ice calving off the Riggs and McBride Glaciers. Go June through mid-July, when the northern end of the Inlet is closed to motorboats.
907-697-2232, www.nps.gov/glba

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Grand Canyon, Arizona / 1.2 million acres
Hone your backcountry skills on one of 50-plus educational trips offered March-November by the Grand Canyon Field Institute (www.grand canyon.org/fieldinstitute). Try the eight-day North Bass to Modred Abyss trip and you'll backpack and canyoneer some of the toughest terrain in the park.
928-638-7888, www.nps.gov/grca




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