Places – Last Great Places

Featured Last Great Places

The Last Great Places YouTube channel shows first-hand, describes and presents rankings for key landscapes for conserving America’s natural diversity. See top-rated Last Great Places in these short but informative videos, including national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, important bird areas and other natural places across the lower 48 states. Working to produce 100 Last Great Places videos in 2022-23. Initial videos feature:

Everglades National Park – #1 in Tropical Florida

Juniper Prairie Wilderness – #1 in Florida Peninsula

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge – #1 in South Atlantic Coastal Plain

Apalachicola River & Forests – #1 in East Gulf Coastal Plain

Congaree National Park – #1 in South Atlantic Coastal Plain

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge – #2 in South Atlantic Coastal Plain

Croatan National Forest – #3 in South Atlantic Coastal Plain

Great Smoky Mountains National Park – # in Southern Blue Ridge

Top 50 Last Great Places

America’s 50 highest-ranked Last Great Places, including the Top 25 Places plus top-ranked sites in other ecoregions. Click on a blue Place name link in the list below for detailed information where available. Explore, sort and filter all 3000 Places by size, type, ecoregion and scoring details using the interactive spreadsheet in Rankings.

Place	Ecoregion	Type	Score
John Muir Wilderness	Sierra Nevada	PA	83
Big Bend National Park	Chihuahuan Desert	PA	83
Marble Canyon/ Vermilion Cliffs	Colorado Plateau	IBA	82
Gila Wild e rness	AZ-NM Mountains	PA	82
Mazatzal Wilderness	Apache Highlands	PA	81
Weminuche Wilderness	Southern Rockies	PA	81
Bob Marshall Wilderness	Canadian Rockies	PA	79
Frank Church-River Of No Return Wilderness	Middle Rockies-Blue Mtns	PA	78
Ventana Wilderness	CA Central Coast	PA	78
Four Peaks Wilderness	Sonoran Desert	PA	78
Inyo Mountains / Cerro Gordo	Great Basin	TNC	77
Death Valley National Park	Mojave Desert	PA	76
Chelan	E. Cascades-Modoc	TNC	75
Pasayten Wilderness	Okanagan	PA	75
Canyonlands National Park	Colorado Plateau	PA	82
Southern Blue Ridge	So. Blue Ridge	IBA	74
Chiricahua Mountians IBA	Apache Highlands	IBA	80
Mt. Baxter	Sierra Nevada	TNC	80
Bridger Wilderness	Utah-WY Mtns	PA	74
Northern Black Range	AZ-NM Mountains	TNC	79
Three Sisters Wilderness	West Cascades	PA	73
Crown of the Continent Linkage	Canadian Rockies	TNC	78
Santa Lucia Mountains	CA Central Coast	TNC	77
Jarbidge Wilderness	Columbia Plateau	PA	72
North Cascades National Park	North Cascades	PA	72
Isle Royale Nati o nal Park	Great Lakes	IBA	72
Great Basin National Park	Great Basin	PA	75
Trinity Alps Wilderness	Klamath Mtns	PA	71
Sespe Wilderness	CA South Coast	PA	71
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness	Superior Mixed Forest	PA	71
Olympic National Park	Pacific NW Coast	PA	71
Bryce Canyon National Park	Utah High Plateaus	PA	70
Flaming Gorge	Wyoming Basins	TNC	69
Pharaoh Lake Wilderness	No. Appalachian	PA	69
Knoxville Wildlife Area	Great Central Valley	PA	68
Lower Purgatoire Conservation Area	Central Shortgrass Prairie	TNC	68
O k efenokee National Wildlife Refuge	So. Atlantic Coast	PA	68
Deadman Canyon	CA North Coast	TNC	67
Apalachicola River and Forests	E. Gulf Coastal Plain	IBA	66
Lewis & Clark National Forest #1	Fescue-Mixed Grass Prairie	TNC	66
Neola Wildlife Management Area	Central Appalachians	PA	64
Caney Creek Wilderness	Ouachita Mountains	PA	63
Sipsey Wilderness	Cumberlands / Southern Ridge & Valley	PA	63
High Granite Region	Black Hills	TNC	63
Mingo Basin 01	Miss. River Alluvial Plain	IBA	62
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	No. Great Plains Steppe	IBA	62
Lower Ouachita	Upper W. Gulf Coastal Plain	TNC	61
Roseau River State Wildlife Management Area	No. Tallgrass Prairie	PA	61
Everglades National Park	Tropical Florida	All	60
Juniper Prairie Wilderness	Florida Peninsula	PA	62