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The following is a list of all 63 National Parks in the United States, along with information regarding their location, when they were established, their size and the number of visitors they had in 2020.
I have had the pleasure of being able to visit 37 of the 63 parks. I've got quite a few more to go, but I'm pretty sure I won't get to all of them as some of them are quite remote, such as American Samoa.
No. | Name | Location | Established | Acres | Visitors 2020 | ||||
1 | Acadia | Maine | February 26, 1919 | 49,076 | 2,669,034 | ||||
2 | American Samoa | American Samoa | October 31, 1988 | 8,256 | 4,819 | ||||
3 | Arches | Utah | November 12, 1971 | 76,678 | 1,238,083 | ||||
4 | Badlands | South Dakota | November 10, 1978 | 242,755 | 916,932 | ||||
5 | Big Bend | Texas | June 12, 1944 | 801,163 | 393,907 | ||||
6 | Biscayne | Florida | June 28, 1980 | 172,971 | 402,770 | ||||
7 | Black Canyon of the Gunnison | Colorado | October 21, 1999 | 30,779 | 341,620 | ||||
8 | Bryce Canyon | Utah | February 25, 1928 | 35,835 | 1,464,655 | ||||
9 | Canyonlands | Utah | September 12, 1964 | 337,597 | 493,914 | ||||
10 | Capitol Reef | Utah | December 18, 1971 | 241,904 | 981,038 | ||||
11 | Carlsbad Caverns | New Mexico | May 14, 1930 | 46,766 | 183,835 | ||||
12 | Channel Islands | California | March 5, 1980 | 249,561 | 167,290 | ||||
13 | Congaree | South Carolina | November 10, 2003 | 26,476 | 119,306 | ||||
14 | Crater Lake | Oregon | May 22, 1902 | 183,224 | 670,500 | ||||
15 | Cuyahoga Valley | Ohio | October 11, 2000 | 32,571 | 2,755,628 | ||||
16 | Death Valley | California, Nevada | October 31, 1994 | 3,408,406 | 820,023 | ||||
17 | Denali | Alaska | February 26, 1917 | 4,740,911 | 54,850 | ||||
18 | Dry Tortugas | Florida | October 26, 1992 | 64,701 | 48,543 | ||||
19 | Everglades | Florida | May 30, 1934 | 1,508,938 | 702,319 | ||||
20 | Gates of the Arctic | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 7,523,897 | 2,872 | ||||
21 | Gateway Arch | Missouri | February 22, 2018[47] | 192 | 486,021 | ||||
22 | Glacier | Montana | May 11, 1910 | 1,013,125 | 1,698,864 | ||||
23 | Glacier Bay | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 3,223,383 | 5,748 | ||||
24 | Grand Canyon | Arizona | February 26, 1919 | 1,201,647 | 2,897,098 | ||||
25 | Grand Teton | Wyoming | February 26, 1929 | 310,044 | 3,289,638 | ||||
26 | Great Basin | Nevada | October 27, 1986 | 77,180 | 120,248 | ||||
27 | Great Sand Dunes | Colorado | September 24, 2004 | 107,341 | 461,532 | ||||
28 | Great Smoky Mountains | North Carolina, Tennessee | June 15, 1934 | 522,426 | 12,095,720 | ||||
29 | Guadalupe Mountains | Texas | October 15, 1966 | 86,367 | 151,256 | ||||
30 | Haleakalā | Hawaii | July 1, 1961 | 33,264 | 319,147 | ||||
31 | Hawaiʻi Volcanoes | Hawaii | August 1, 1916 | 325,605 | 589,775 | ||||
32 | Hot Springs | Arkansas | March 4, 1921 | 5,554 | 1,348,215 | ||||
33 | Indiana Dunes | Indiana | February 15, 2019 | 15,349 | 2,293,106 | ||||
34 | Isle Royale | Michigan | April 3, 1940 | 571,790 | 6,493 | ||||
35 | Joshua Tree | California | October 31, 1994 | 795,155 | 2,399,542 | ||||
36 | Katmai | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 3,674,529 | 51,511 | ||||
37 | Kenai Fjords | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 669,650 | 115,882 | ||||
38 | Kings Canyon | California | March 4, 1940 | 461,901 | 415,077 | ||||
39 | Kobuk Valley | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 1,750,716 | 11,185 | ||||
40 | Lake Clark | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 2,619,816 | 4,948 | ||||
41 | Lassen Volcanic | California | August 9, 1916 | 106,589 | 542,274 | ||||
42 | Mammoth Cave | Kentucky | July 1, 1941 | 54,011 | 290,392 | ||||
43 | Mesa Verde | Colorado | June 29, 1906 | 52,485 | 287,477 | ||||
44 | Mount Rainier | Washington | March 2, 1899 | 236,381 | 1,160,754 | ||||
45 | New River Gorge | West Virginia | December 27, 2020 | 7,021 | 1,054,374 | ||||
46 | North Cascades | Washington | October 2, 1968 | 504,780 | 30,885 | ||||
47 | Olympic | Washington | June 29, 1938 | 922,649 | 2,499,177 | ||||
48 | Petrified Forest | Arizona | December 9, 1962 | 221,390 | 384,483 | ||||
49 | Pinnacles | California | January 10, 2013 | 26,685 | 165,740 | ||||
50 | Redwood | California | October 2, 1968 | 138,999 | 265,177 | ||||
51 | Rocky Mountain | Colorado | January 26, 1915 | 265,807 | 3,305,199 | ||||
52 | Saguaro | Arizona | October 14, 1994 | 92,867 | 762,226 | ||||
53 | Sequoia | California | September 25, 1890 | 404,062 | 796,086 | ||||
54 | Shenandoah | Virginia | December 26, 1935 | 199,223 | 1,666,265 | ||||
55 | Theodore Roosevelt | North Dakota | November 10, 1978 | 70,446 | 551,303 | ||||
56 | Virgin Islands | U.S. Virgin Islands | August 2, 1956 | 15,052 | 167,540 | ||||
57 | Voyageurs | Minnesota | April 8, 1975 | 218,222 | 263,091 | ||||
58 | White Sands | New Mexico | December 20, 2019[111] | 146,344 | 415,383 | ||||
59 | Wind Cave | South Dakota | January 9, 1903 | 33,970 | 448,405 | ||||
60 | Wrangell–St. Elias | Alaska | December 2, 1980 | 8,323,146 | 16,655 | ||||
61 | Yellowstone | Wyoming, Montana, Idaho | March 1, 1872 | 2,219,790 | 3,806,306 | ||||
62 | Yosemite | California | October 1, 1890 | 761,747 | 2,268,313 | ||||
63 | Zion | Utah | November 19, 1919 | 147,242 | 3,591,254 |