Hard national parks word search
Old Faithful, Half Dome and the switchbacks up to a scenic overlook: twenty-eight national park words in an eighteen by eighteen grid. Some hide backwards or on the diagonal, for older kids and hikers with a few park stamps.
- Backcountry
- Bighorn sheep
- Black bear
- Bryce Canyon
- Death Valley
- Denali
- El Capitan
- Geyser basin
- Half Dome
- Hoodoo
- Hot spring
- Joshua Tree
- Leave no trace
- Mesa Verde
- Moose
- Mountain goat
- Old Faithful
- Park ranger
- Petroglyph
- Prairie dog
- Redwood
- Rocky Mountains
- Scenic overlook
- Shenandoah
- Smoky Mountains
- Switchback
- Trailhead
- Wilderness
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Make your own versionNational parks, extra hard
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| H | O | S | S | F | P | E | E | H | S | N | R | O | H | G | I | B | E |
| H | D | H | E | H | H | N | G | O | D | E | I | R | I | A | R | P | C |
| M | O | U | N | T | A | I | N | G | O | A | T | L | T | Y | P | H | W |
| M | O | A | R | I | L | C | E | W | T | H | A | N | R | E | E | L | G |
| E | W | T | E | A | F | O | G | O | R | N | U | L | O | L | B | O | M |
| S | D | R | D | F | D | V | M | S | E | O | O | E | C | L | A | S | P |
| A | E | E | L | D | O | E | R | D | M | E | M | A | R | A | C | H | E |
| V | R | E | I | L | M | R | B | Y | C | E | P | V | E | V | K | E | T |
| E | A | C | W | O | E | L | K | A | U | I | R | E | E | H | C | N | R |
| R | O | C | K | Y | M | O | U | N | T | A | I | N | S | T | O | A | O |
| D | V | O | T | E | M | O | T | A | V | T | D | O | O | A | U | N | G |
| E | B | R | P | S | F | K | N | I | I | E | T | T | O | E | N | D | L |
| N | I | S | A | B | R | E | S | Y | E | G | E | R | M | D | T | O | Y |
| B | L | A | C | K | B | E | A | R | E | G | N | A | R | K | R | A | P |
| S | D | S | W | I | T | C | H | B | A | C | K | C | W | W | Y | H | H |
| B | N | O | Y | N | A | C | E | C | Y | R | B | E | X | S | A | D | L |
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- Backcountry
- Bighorn sheep
- Black bear
- Bryce Canyon
- Death Valley
- Denali
- El Capitan
- Geyser basin
- Half Dome
- Hoodoo
- Hot spring
- Joshua Tree
- Leave no trace
- Mesa Verde
- Moose
- Mountain goat
- Old Faithful
- Park ranger
- Petroglyph
- Prairie dog
- Redwood
- Rocky Mountains
- Scenic overlook
- Shenandoah
- Smoky Mountains
- Switchback
- Trailhead
- Wilderness
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About this word search
This list reads like a road trip across the country. Half Dome and El Capitan stand in Yosemite, Mesa Verde preserves cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloans, and Denali is the highest peak in North America. A Hoodoo is a tall, thin spire of rock, and Bryce Canyon has more of them than anywhere else on Earth.
Words hide in every direction, backward ones too. Start with the long entries: Leave no trace, Scenic overlook and Smoky Mountains. The two pairs of O in Hoodoo make it easy to spot.
Afterward, mark the parks you have already visited and pick the next one to plan.
Ways to use this word search
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