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Top parks for October
Ranked by season rating, then crowds.
Petrified Forest
Rainbow-colored fossil logs, the Painted Desert and a stretch of old Route 66.
Big Bend
Desert, mountains and a river canyon at the edge of Texas, with the darkest skies in the lower 48.
Carlsbad Caverns
A cave so big you can walk in through its natural mouth, and a nightly summer bat flight.
White Sands
Brilliant white gypsum dunes you can sled down, any month of the year.
Mesa Verde
Climb ladders into 800-year-old cliff dwellings.
Badlands
Striped spires, mixed-grass prairie and one of the world's richest fossil beds.
Wind Cave
A labyrinth cave beneath bison prairie, with rare boxwork formations.
Congaree
Champion trees, a floodplain forest and synchronous fireflies.