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.
Chart 1 of 1 · National parks
Which national parks get the most visitors?
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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.
Questions to discuss
- In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
- Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
- 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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