Parks (board game)

Parks is a 2019 board game for one to five players, designed by Henry Audubon and illustrated in the style of the Fifty-Nine Parks print series, that celebrates the national parks of the United States. Each player guides two hikers along a trail of tiles through the four seasons of a year. The trail is shuffled between seasons and grows longer each time, and the hikers land on trail sites to gather resource tokens such as forests and mountains. Collecting these tokens in sets lets players trade them in to visit a National Park card and earn end-game points, while campfires, canteens and gear cards help a player reach resources more easily. Because hikers stay put while the trail changes, blocking a rival or taking a needed space matters, yet the rules stay light. Board Game Matcher lists a play time of about 60 minutes and the mechanics Contracts, End Game Bonuses and Events, and the game works as a solo puzzle or a table of up to five.