Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. Which National Park Service sites get the most visitors?

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Which National Park Service sites get the most visitors?

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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.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: National Park Service, Visitor Use Statistics (Public domain (U.S. government work); source National Park Service) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025

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