The National Park Service manages more than 84 million acres, including marshlands, deserts, shorelines and more. And hundreds of millions of people visit national parks each year.

Whether you’ve never been to one or you’re trying to visit all 63, The Washington Post will bring you into America’s cherished national parks.

Explore the complicated past and uncertain future of America’s national parks, from Florida’s Everglades to Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic. Washington Post podcast host Lillian Cunningham ventures off the marked trail to better understand the most urgent stories playing out in five iconic landscapes today.

Take a deep dive into some of the national parks:

Yosemite: Inspiration for the national parks

Glacier: The rush of Glacier’s Going-to-the-Sun Road

Everglades: The “River of Grass”

White Sands: A park imprinted with the beginnings of the Atomic Age

Gates of the Arctic: The most remote and least visited national park

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