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.
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.
| 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 |