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Tick off all 63 US national parks as you visit them, grouped by region, saved in your browser.
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What counts as a national park
Sixty-three, and the number moves. The National Park Service manages more than four hundred sites, but only these carry the full national park designation. The rest are monuments, preserves, historic sites, seashores and recreation areas.
Yellowstone was first in 1872, before the Park Service existed to run it. New River Gorge in West Virginia is the most recent, redesignated from a national river in 2020. Several on the list were protected long before they became parks: Hot Springs was a federal reservation from 1832, and Denali spent most of a century as Mount McKinley.
How the count usually goes
The first ten come easily, because they are the ones near where you already travel. The Utah five, Yellowstone and Grand Teton in one trip, whatever is within a day of home.
Then it slows. Eight of the sixty-three are in Alaska and four of those have no road to them. American Samoa is a five hour flight from Hawaii. Dry Tortugas is a boat or a seaplane from Key West. Anyone finishing this list is doing it deliberately.
Which is the honest argument for ticking them off as you go rather than at the end. The list is a record of where you have been, not a target.
Wear the ones that stuck
We draw park designs one at a time rather than swapping a name into a template, which is why there are five and not sixty-three. Glacier, Zion, the Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, and a shirt carrying the whole badge grid.
They live in National Park Shirts. If you are buying for somebody else working through this list, the gift guide covers what lands and what gets shelved.
Common questions
How many US national parks are there
Sixty-three. The National Park Service manages over four hundred sites in total, but the rest are monuments, preserves, historic sites, seashores and recreation areas rather than national parks.
Are my ticks saved
Yes, in your own browser. Nothing is sent to us and nothing is tied to an account, which also means the list will not follow you to a different device or survive clearing your browser data. Print it if you want a copy that lasts.
Which national park is the hardest to reach
Depending on how you count, Gates of the Arctic or Kobuk Valley. Neither has a road, a trail or a visitor centre, and both need a bush plane. American Samoa is the furthest by distance, roughly five hours flying from Honolulu.
What was the first national park
Yellowstone, in 1872, forty-four years before the National Park Service existed. The most recent is New River Gorge in West Virginia, redesignated from a national river in 2020.
Does this include national monuments
No. Only the sixty-three sites carrying full national park designation. Adding monuments would take the list past a hundred and twenty and most people tracking parks are tracking these.