National Park Visitation

How the U.S. national parks rank by the number of visits

Below are 2019 annual visitation statistics from the National Park Service for the 62 U.S. national parks, in three tables:

In 2019, Indiana Dunes National Park, formerly a national lakeshore, and White Sands National Park, formerly a national monument, became the 61st and 62nd national parks, respectively.

The total number of recreational visits to the 62 national parks in 2019 was 88,815,063, up 3.9% from 2018, with 39 of 62 parks seeing increases.*

Note that the statistics are for recreational visits, not unique visitors. A given visitor may have multiple visits to the same park. A park with more visits than another park did not necessarily have more unique visitors.

Visit the American Park Ratings page to see ratings from Consumer Reports and GoOutsideBook.com of many of the most popular parks, plus an interactive map with photos and links.

SORTED BY NUMBER OF VISITS

SORTED BY PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN NUMBER OF VISITS

SORTED BY PARK NAME

* Visitation figures for remote Alaskan parks that have no facilities or roads may be crude estimates.

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