63 Illustrated National Parks

by Nathan Anderson, Joel Anderson, Anderson Design Group (Illustrator)

Anderson Design Group has expanded and updated their award-winning National Parks Book by adding the newest Park—White Sands National Park. The updated softcover edition has the exact same interior content as the hardcover version. It includes dozens of new new illustrations, new photos, plus new hiking tips and facts. This 9” x 12” full-color softcover coffee table book includes all 62 of their National Park posters, plus oil paintings, historic photos, a map of the USA, facts, travel tips, and the 100-year history of the National Park Service. This gorgeous book is perfect for any outdoor lover, poster art fan, or American history buff! Back in 2015, ADG founder Joel Anderson and his team of award-winning artists set out to create a poster for each of the National Parks. Along the way, Joel and his son Nathan traveled to several parks gathering reference, photos, and inspiration for a book that would eventually combine the entire poster series with a wealth of interesting information. Designed by the talented artists of Anderson Design Group and written by Nathan Anderson, this beautiful National Park book is truly spectacular! Each year, we donate a portion of our profits to the National Park Foundation. Your purchase helps to protect America's National Parks!

Genres: Travel

184 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2020

Reviews

[Michael Stalnaker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun, exciting “coffee book” for Trevor and I! Learned SO MUCH about all (except one) of the National Parks here in the U.S. and we watched a little video after reading about each park on the GoTraveler channel on YouTube. Just makes us want to visit all the parks even sooner…thanks Anderson Design Group for another great read!

[William Barney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful! America’s creation and gift to the world: The National Park Service. This creative work done by the Anderson Design Group, located in Nashville, TN, is a book filled with great information about the history of our National Parks and illustrations done by a skilled team of artists and designers. These paintings are vivid, colorful and evoke the ambiance of the particular national park shown. I learned interesting facts about each of our national parks and I am inspired and ready to visit some of them.

Some of my favorites that were featured in the book are:

1. Acadia (Maine)
2. Arches (Utah)
3. Biscayne (Florida)
4. Dry Tortugas (Florida)
5. Everglades (Florida)
6. Channel Islands (California)
7. Sequoia (California)
8. Redwood (California)
9. Yosemite (California)
10. Glacier Bay (Alaska)
11. Kenai Fjords (Alaska)
12. Olympic (Washington)
13. Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico)
14. White Sands (New Mexico)
15. Mammoth Cave (Kentucky)
16. Yellowstone (Wyoming)
17. Haleakala (Hawaii)
18. Hawaii Volcanoes
19. U.S. Virgin Islands
20. American Samoa
21. Theodore Roosevelt (North Dakota)
22. Mesa Verde (Colorado)

*Cool fact: The oldest National Park is Yellowstone, formed in 1872 and the newest National Park to be added into the NPS system is White Sands in 2019.

Let’s get this show on the road! 🌲🪵🪨🏔🌋🏜

[Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sadly, my copy is a little outdated, with just 61 National Parks covered in this volume. We picked this up during a tour of National Parks around Colorado as a memento, and a way to appreciate the wonderful collection of poster art capturing the spirit of each park. If you're not collecting the posters as you go (they *are* quite expensive) then this is a wonderful substitute to appreciate each work and how it connects to the wondrous features of each park.

[Kevann Lamkin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The illustrations are lovely and appropriate adult difficulty level. My criticism is that they included seven Alaskan parks. It would have been a lot more fun and interesting to color parks from other states. It's boring to have pages that are mostly white snow!
Also, they included an unneeded bison at Yellowstone Pk page. Why? There is also a Yellowstone page.

[Dee Roll · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent info, beautiful posters shown throughout

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a coffee table book but provides a great introduction to each national park with beautiful illustrations!

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Visually stunning artwork and photographs. The text for each entry is brief but informative. Minor editing errors.

** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED **