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Reader Participation Day Bonus: How Many National Park-Designated Units of the National Park System Have You Visited?

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Is Shenandoah National Park on your life list yet? NPS photo by J.F. Mitchell.

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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Might point out that your question offers 58 NPS 'units' as the full list. You are correct if only refering to parks. If you really mean 'units' there are [392] NPS units. These include parks, monuments, battlefields, historical sites, etc. (http://www.nps.gov/legacy/business.html).
So to answer your question, we have visited over 30 of the parks and are over 105 on total units visited. Our bucket list is to get to them all!


Hubby, you are indeed correct about the 58 "national parks." That's what we were aiming for this time around. We'll be back soon asking how many of the 392 units folks have visited.

I admire your bucket list. Quite ambitious!


I began this article by asking "How many of the National Park-designated NPS units have you visited?" The list I provided consists of the 58 NPS units that fit this description.


We've been to 35 on the list with about 9 more scheduled or in the planning stage. Plus we've been to several National Seashores and Lakeshores


52 so far. Will visit Gates of the Arctic and Kobuk Valley this week. Hopefully the last 4 within another year. We don't have all the stamps but have really tried to do more than drive thru each park that we have visited. We are looking forward to revisiting several of our favorites.


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