But even the mountainous parks bordering Canada have their troubles.
The precipitous public roads on which it ran, wending through a mountainous national park, were diabolically twisty, narrow and devoid of guardrails.
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, a 500-square-mile mountainous parkland centered around a large lake, has been designated Scotland's first national park.
We swim in Lake Negratin, a vast blue reservoir to the north of Baza, and my husband cycles up and down the empty roads that zig-zag the Sierra de Baza, Sierra Castril, or the mighty Sierra Nevada (the area is surrounded by mountainous national parks).
New Zealand's hilly landscapes not located in mountainous national parks are mostly managed for productive uses that include pastoral farming and plantation forestry.
At an elevation of about 3,545 feet (1,080 m), Della Lake lies deep within the mountainous Strathcona Provincial Park.
It's fun to watch in the mountainous Swiss National Park, home too to chamois, elk and vipers.
In May in the mountainous Rila National Park, Mr. Hammerstein and a group of Bulgarian environmentalists were confronted by a private security guard in a forested area where a road is being constructed without environmental permits.
The North Velebit, Paklenica, and Risnjak national parks encompass mountainous terrain, while the Krka National Park is centred on the river of the same name.
The most stunning stretch comes over the Hardangervidda, Europe's highest mountainous plateau and national park.
There are thought to be over 500 of our closest primate cousins living within the park's mountainous hardwood forests.
