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How many people visit national parks?
How many people visit America's national parks each year? Today's 63 national parks had 93.9 million recreation visits in 2025, against the record 94.3 million of 2024 and 52.6 million in 1979, when monthly counts begin.
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How many people visit America's national parks each year?
Today's 63 national parks had 93.9 million recreation visits in 2025, against the record 94.3 million of 2024 and 52.6 million in 1979, when monthly counts begin. Visits fell to 67.9 million in 2020, when many parks closed for part of the pandemic. Every year counts the same 63 parks, including a few made national parks only recently, such as Indiana Dunes and New River Gorge.
Source: National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics · Data as of December 31, 2025 · Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service
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Which national parks get the most visitors?
Great Smoky Mountains had 11.5 million recreation visits in 2025, the most of the 63 national parks and 2.3 times as many as the next, Zion (4.98 million). Yellowstone (4.76 million) came third, while Kobuk Valley had about 7,800. A visit is one person entering a park for recreation on one day, estimated by each park from traffic counters and sampling.
Source: National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics · Data as of December 31, 2025 · Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service
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Which National Park Service sites get the most visitors?
Blue Ridge Parkway had 16.5 million recreation visits in 2025, the most of any site the National Park Service runs, ahead of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (15.7 million) and Great Smoky Mountains National Park (11.5 million). Parkways, recreation areas and memorials, many near big cities or roads, fill most of the list; in 2025 Great Smoky Mountains was the only national park in the top 10.
Source: National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics · Data as of December 31, 2025 · Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service
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