How many of the National Park-designated NPS units have you visited? To help you with your tally, here’s a list of all 58.
Acadia (Maine)
Arches (Utah)
Badlands (South Dakota)
Big Bend (Texas)
Biscayne (Florida)
Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colorado)
Bryce Canyon (Utah)
Canyonlands (Utah)
Capitol Reef (Utah)
Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico)
Channel Islands (California)
Congaree (South Carolina)
Crater Lake (Oregon)
Cuyahoga Valley (Ohio)
Death Valley (California-Nevada)
Denali (Alaska)
Dry Tortugas (Florida)
Everglades (Florida)
Gates of the Arctic (Alaska)
Glacier Bay (Alaska)
Glacier (Montana)
Grand Canyon (Arizona)
Grand Teton (Wyoming)
Great Basin (Nevada)
Great Sand Dunes (Colorado)
Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee-North Carolina)
Guadalupe Mountains (Texas)
Haleakalā (Hawaii)
Hawai‘i Volcanoes (Hawaii)
Hot Springs (Arkansas)
Isle Royale (Michigan)
Joshua Tree (California)
Katmai (Alaska)
Kenai Fjords (Alaska)
Kings Canyon (California)
Kobuk Valley (Alaska)
Lake Clark (Alaska)
Lassen Volcanic (California)
Mammoth Cave (Kentucky)
Mesa Verde (Colorado)
Mount Rainier (Washington)
National Park of American Samoa
North Cascades (Washington)
Olympic (Washington)
Petrified Forest (Arizona)
Redwood (California)
Rocky Mountain (Colorado)
Saguaro (Arizona)
Sequoia (California)
Shenandoah (Virginia)
Theodore Roosevelt (North Dakota)
Virgin Islands (Virgin Islands)
Voyageurs (Minnesota)
Wind Cave (South Dakota)
Wrangell-St. Elias (Alaska)
Yellowstone (Wyoming-Montana-Idaho)
Yosemite (California)
Zion (Utah)
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28 counting those with my parents, those with my kids and the rest as a senior. Next month it's time to finally go to the Channel Islands.
A lively thread without ORVs and beach access? Sounds great.
My number is not that impressive: 19 plus the Ventura Visitor Center of Channel Islands - haven't made it to the islands yet but to the VC on the mainland.
11 for me. Hope to add Canyonlands next month
Only 12 so far, but with our son living in Utah plan on doing several more in the next few years. He also has the NPS bug and camps with his family at a National Park every summer.
Exactly half, 29, if I'm allowed to count parks that I visited before they were designated parks (Cuyahoga, Death Valley), and the Channel Islands VC. Can a judge issue a ruling on these? :)
19 for me, although it would have been an even 20 had a tropical storm not got in the way a scheduled visit to Fort Jefferston (Dry Tortugas). I would admit that a few of those visits were exceedingly short. The same storm canceled the snorkeling boat trip I had planned at Biscayne, as well as reduced the number of tourists later that week for the glass-bottomed boat tour. Apparently they won't even run the boat tour unless they feel they can achieve break-even with fuel costs, which was 6 at the time. I spent maybe an hour at the main visitor center and walking on their short boardwalk. We drove through Death Valley quickly in the summer - long enough to take photos at Badwater, grab an Icee at the Furnace Ranch convenience store, and pay our entrance fee (or at least flash a pass) at the visitor center. For that particular trip, we sort of barnstormed and got 9 national parks in less than 4 weeks.
And CAPTCHA for me is "family begone"???
This is testing our memory...but we have been to 45 definitely, and maybe another two. And we've enjoyed them all---some more than others---but nevertheless, they all are impressive, inspiring, and different!
After years and years of traveling and camping in all the 50 states, we've stopped at most of the national parks and at many other units of the National Park Service again and again, and yet, we still have so many more to go before we can say we've seen them all! "America's Best Idea" is really great!
33 parks so far. Thankfully, there are more beautiful places to look forward to :)