63 National Parks in the United States

The United States is currently home to 423 national park sites including the national parks themselves, historic sites, monuments, and other sites. There are currently 63 national parks, with New River Gorge National Park being the last one established in December of 2020.

This page contains a list of the current National Parks in the United States as of early 2022. The dates shown are when the parks received national park status. Many of these parks were still part of the national park system but held a different status for years prior to being officially established.

Denali national park — Image by David Mark from Pixabay

List of 63 National Parks in the United States

This table of U.S. National Parks can be sorted and filtered alphabetically, by state, by size, by age, and by yearly visits. Download a free printable PDF list of these national parks below that includes all the data from the following table.

*Yearly visits are from 2020.

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Park Name	Established	State(s)/Location	Acreage	Yearly Visits
Yellowstone National Park	1872	Wyoming, Montana	2,219,790.71	3,806,306
Yosemite National Park	1890	California	761,747.50	2,268,313
Sequoia National Park	1890	California	404,062.63	796,086
Mount Rainier National Park	1899	Washington	236,381.64	1,160,754
Crater Lake National Park	1902	Oregon	183,224.05	670,500
Wind Cave National Park	1903	South Dakota	33,970.84	448,405
Mesa Verde National Park	1906	Colorado	52,485.17	287,477
Glacier National Park	1910	Montana	1,013,125.99	1,698,864
Rocky Mountain National Park	1915	Colorado	265,807.25	3,305,199
Lassen Volcanic National Park	1916	California	106,589.02	542,274
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	1916	Hawaii	325,605.28	589,775
Hot Springs National Park	1916	Arkansas	5,554.15	1,348,215
Denali National Park	1917	Alaska	4,740,911.16	54,850
Grand Canyon National Park	1919	Arizona	1,201,647.03	2,897,098
Zion National Park	1919	Utah	147,242.66	3,591,254
Bryce Canyon National Park	1928	Utah	35,835.08	1,464,655
Acadia National Park	1929	Maine	49,076.63	2,669,034
Grand Teton National Park	1929	Wyoming	310,044.36	3,289,638
Carlsbad Caverns National Park	1930	New mexico	46,766.45	183,835
Great Smoky Mountains National Park	1934	Tennessee, North Carolina	522,426.88	12,095,720
Shenandoah National Park	1935	Virginia	199,223.77	1,666,265
Olympic National Park	1938	Washington	922,649.41	2,499,177
Kings Canyon National Park	1940	California	461,901.20	415,077
Isle Royale National Park	1940	Michigan	571,790.30	6,493
Mammoth Cave National Park	1941	Kentucky	54,011.91	290,392
Big Bend National Park	1944	Texas	801,163.21	393,907
Everglades National Park	1947	Florida	1,508,938.57	702,319
Virgin Islands National Park	1956	United States Virgin Islands	15,052.53	167,540
Haleakala National Park	1961	Hawaii	33,264.62	319,147
Petrified Forest National Park	1962	Arizona	221,390.21	384,483
Canyonlands National Park	1964	Utah	337,597.83	493,914
North Cascades National Park	1968	Washington	504,780.94	30,885
Redwood National Park	1968	California	138,999.37	265,177
Arches National Park	1971	Utah	76,678.98	1,238,083
Capitol Reef National Park	1971	Utah	241,904.50	981,038
Guadalupe Mountains National Park	1972	Texas	86,367.10	151,256
Voyageurs National Park	1975	Minnesota	218,222.35	263,091
Theodore Roosevelt National Park	1978	North Dakota	70,446.89	551,303
Badlands National Park	1978	South Dakota	242,755.94	916,932
Channel Islands National Park	1980	California	249,561.00	167,290
Biscayne National Park	1980	Florida	172,971.11	402,770
Katmai National Park	1980	Alaska	3,674,529.33	51,511
Glacier Bay National Park	1980	Alaska	3,223,383.43	5,748
Gates of the Arctic	1980	Alaska	7,523,897.45	2,872
Kenai Fjords National Park	1980	Alaska	669,650.05	115,882
Kobuk Valley National Park	1980	Alaska	1,750,716.16	11,185
Lake Clark National Park	1980	Alaska	2,619,816.49	4,948
Wrangell St. Elias National Park	1980	Alaska	8,323,146.48	16,655
Great Basin National Park	1986	Nevada	77,180.00	120,248
National Park of American Samoa	1988	U. S. territory of American Samoa	8,256.67	4,819
Dry Tortugas National Park	1992	Florida	64,701.22	48,543
Death Valley National Park	1994	California, Nevada	3,408,406.73	820,023
Saguaro National Park	1994	Arizona	92,867.42	762,226
Joshua Tree National Park	1994	California	795,155.85	2,399,542
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park	1999	Colorado	30,779.83	341,620
Cuyahoga Valley National Park	2000	Ohio	32,571.88	2,755,628
Congaree National Park	2003	South Carolina	26,476.47	119,306
Great Sand Dunes National Park	2004	Colorado	107,341.87	461,532
Pinnacles National Park	2013	California	26,685.73	165,740
Gateway Arch National Park	2018	Missouri	192.83	486,021
Indiana Dunes National Park	2019	Indiana	15,349.08	2,293,106
White Sands National Park	2019	New Mexico	146,344.31	415,383
New River Gorge National Park	2020	West Virginia	7,021	1,054,374

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