“God shed his grace on thee”
North Carolina
1. Outer Banks
Honorable mention: Blue Ridge Parkway/Blue Ridge National Heritage Area (America the Beautiful quarter image)
South Carolina
1. Charleston (including Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park – America the Beautiful quarter image)
2. Congaree National Park
3. Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
4. Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Georgia
1. Savannah
2. Okefenokee Swamp (World Heritage Tentative List)
3. Atlanta (including Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park)
4. Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Honorable mention: Cumberland Island National Seashore (America the Beautiful quarter image)
Florida
1. Everglades National Park (a World Heritage Site; America the Beautiful quarter image)
2. Biscayne National Park
3. Dry Tortugas National Park
4. Florida Keys (including John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park on Key Largo and Key West)
5. Miami
6. Saint Augustine (Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and Fort Matanzas National Monument)
Puerto Rico
(U.S. Territory)
1. San Juan: La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site – a World Heritage Site, and the rest of Old San Juan
2. El Yunque National Forest (America the Beautiful quarter image)
Honorable mention: Bioluminescence in Mosquito Bay at Isla de Vieques
U.S. Virgin Islands
(U.S. Territory)
1. St. John: Virgin Islands National Park
2. St. Croix: Salt River Bay National Historical Park & Ecological Preserve (America the Beautiful quarter image), Christiansted National Historic Site, and Buck Island Reef National Monument
Note: Navassa Island (no permanent population) is a U.S. territory in the Caribbean near Haiti, but it is listed with the other U.S. Minor Outlying Islands for organizational convenience.