National park · a Vonda Wanderlist
Kept wild on purpose.
1,771 places for national park travel, gathered from every corner of the map.
Somebody drew a line around these places and promised to leave them alone. The parks are that promise, mostly kept — trailheads, rangers and all.
Chapter I
The fjord estates
Norway's headline parks: waterfalls off every wall, ridgelines with queues in July and solitude in September. The ferries count as trails.
Chapter II
Iceland's rough drafts
Canyons torn by glacial floods, Europe's heaviest waterfall, a glacier with a volcano underneath. Parks where the geology is visibly unfinished.
Every place in this Wanderlist
6 places, no itinerary.
Nærøyfjord
Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
✦ May to September · $$
Geirangerfjord
Møre og Romsdal, Norway
✦ May to September · $$
Jotunheimen National Park
Oppland, Norway
✦ July to September · $$
Dettifoss
Northeastern Region, Iceland
✦ June–September · $
Ásbyrgi
Northeastern Region, Iceland
✦ June–August · $
Skaftafell
Southern Region, Iceland
✦ June–September · $