3) Capital Reef National Park - Another interesting park. Another park that features lots of rock formations, but totally different from the rock formations at Craters of the Moon. Plus there are other features to view while there.
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Not sure what you are getting at here. Capital Reef is not a volcanic features park, not in the last many millions of years anyway. It's more a different red rock type park where the red rock isn't red...heh. Craters on the other hand is 100% recent volcanic and indeed they expect a new eruption at any time.
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5) Mesa Verde National Park - Down in the 4 corners region of Colorado, I mention this one because I don't hear it bandied around a lot. Again, a different national park due to it centering on the Ancestral Puebloan culture, and their cliff dwellings.
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Mesa Verde is just the most spectacular of many Indian Ruin parks in that area, Hovenweep is another example within sight of MVNP and there are a score or more down thru New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. They have made MV a lot less visitor friendly by shifting to that online reservation system. You can't just show up and do tours anymore you better make reservations days ahead of arrival.
