Where can you see the Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel?
Some of the best places to see the Common Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel in the wild include Crater Lake National Park (United States), Lassen Volcanic National Park (United States) and Kings Canyon National Park (United States) — among 24 wildlife hotspots across the United States and Canada. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Banff National Park
Improvement District No. 9, Canada
+264 birds+33 mammals
Where the Canadian Rockies thrust skyward in a cathedral of limestone and ice, Banff National Park preserves a wilderness of astounding vertical drama. Glacier-carved valleys cradle…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBlack Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Montrose County, United States
+169 birds+13 mammals
Where the Gunnison River has carved one of North America's steepest and most dramatic canyons, ancient metamorphic rock walls plunge nearly 2,000 feet in places, creating…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBryce Canyon National Park
Tropic, United States
+202 birds+20 mammals
Hoodoos rise like a forest of stone pillars from an amphitheater carved into Utah's high plateau, where the Paunsaugunt elevates the landscape to over 9,000 feet…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCapitol Reef National Park
Garfield County, United States
+196 birds+22 mammals
Wrinkled ridges of crimson and gold sandstone rise from the floor of south-central Utah, their weathered faces carved by the Fremont River into one of the…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCrater Lake National Park
Klamath County, United States
+174 birds+13 mammals
At 1,949 metres above sea level, a volcanic caldera of impossible clarity holds one of North America's deepest and most pristine alpine lakes, ringed by pumice-and-ash…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGlacier National Park
Glacier, Canada
+162 birds+12 mammals
Where granite peaks pierce the clouds above the Columbia River valley, Glacier National Park protects one of the most dramatic mountain wilderness areas in western Canada.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGlacier National Park
United States
+246 birds+39 mammals
Where jagged peaks pierce a subarctic sky and glacial valleys carve through ancient rock, Glacier National Park spans the spine of the Northern Rockies along Montana's…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGrand Canyon National Park
United States
+277 birds+35 mammals
A mile-deep chasm of rust-red rock and purple shadow cuts through the high desert plateau of northern Arizona, revealing nearly two billion years of geological history…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGrand Teton National Park
Teton County, United States
+247 birds+38 mammals
Where the Teton Range tears skyward in a dramatic escarpment above the Snake River valley, nearly 2,550 square kilometers of montane wilderness unfolds across Teton County,…
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