This slideshow explores the most visited national parks, providing a fascinating glimpse into the total number of annual visits to each of these popular destinations, according to data from the National Park Service.

1. Visitation Numbers
U.S. National Park System
National Park Visitation Tops 327 Million in 2019

2. Top 10 Most Visited (2019)
1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park 12.5 million
2. Grand Canyon National Park 5.97 million
3. Rocky Mountain National Park 4.7 million
4. Zion National Park 4.5 million
5. Yosemite National Park 4.4 million
6. Yellowstone National Park 4 million
7. Acadia National Park 3.4 million
8. Grand Teton National Park 3.4 million
9. Olympic National Park 3.2 million
10. Glacier National Park 3 million
Source: NPS.gov
Yellowstone Top 10

3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
and Grand Canyon National Park
continue to hold the first and second
most-visited national parks in the
United States.

4. 2019 by the numbers
50 %
of total recreation visits
occurred in 27 parks
327,516,619
Total recreation
visits
13,860,047
overnight stays
(recreation + non-recreation)
Visitation in 2019 surpassed 2018 by more than 9 million recreation visits, a 2.9 percent increase

5. Recreation visitor
hours have remained
above 1.4 billion over
the past four years. Note
In the past five years
there have been nearly
two billion recreation
visits to national parks.

6. Rocky Mountain
National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park held
on to third place and set a new
visitation record at 4.67 million.

7. Recreation Visits by Year
Last updated: March 10, 2020
➔ 1904 120,000 visits
➔ 1950 32,706,172 million visits
➔ 2019 327,516,619 million visits

8. 25 national parks had more
than 1 million recreation
visits (40 percent of National Parks)
(Out of the 419 parks in the National Park System in 2019, there were 62 with the designation "national park" as part of their official name.)

9. America’s national parks continue to
be popular destinations.
Visitation to national parks in 2019
exceeded 300 million recreation
visits for the fifth consecutive year.
Yellowstone Top 10

10. Yosemite National Park recovered
from a drop in 2018 visitation
attributed to wildland fires
and moved past
Yellowstone National Park
for fifth place
Source: NPG.gov

11. National Parks | Visitor Milestones
1904 2019
1904
120,690 visits
1956
50 million visits
1963
100 million visits
2019
327 million visits
1920
1 million visits

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