Which national parks get the most visitors?
Great Smoky Mountains had 11.5 million recreation visits in 2025, more than twice any other of the 63 national parks. Zion (5.0 million), Yellowstone (4.8 million), Grand Canyon (4.4 million) and Yosemite (4.3 million) came next, while Alaska's remote Kobuk Valley had fewer than 8,000. A visit is one person entering a park for recreation on one day, estimated by each park from traffic counters and sampling.
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The data
| National park | Recreation visits in the year |
|---|---|
| Great Smoky Mountains | 11,527,939 |
| Zion | 4,984,525 |
| Yellowstone | 4,762,988 |
| Grand Canyon | 4,430,653 |
| Yosemite | 4,278,413 |
| Rocky Mountain | 4,171,431 |
| Acadia | 4,079,318 |
| Grand Teton | 3,800,648 |
| Olympic | 3,584,187 |
| Glacier | 3,136,557 |
| Cuyahoga Valley | 3,025,325 |
| Joshua Tree | 2,932,644 |
| Indiana Dunes | 2,629,497 |
| Hot Springs | 2,494,611 |
| Gateway Arch | 2,209,028 |
| Bryce Canyon | 1,967,367 |
| New River Gorge | 1,958,440 |
| Hawaii Volcanoes | 1,877,854 |
| Shenandoah | 1,682,152 |
| Mount Rainier | 1,635,342 |
| Arches | 1,511,740 |
| Capitol Reef | 1,388,476 |
| Sequoia | 1,378,337 |
| Death Valley | 1,320,134 |
| Redwood | 1,202,480 |
| Badlands | 1,139,361 |
| Haleakala | 853,711 |
| Saguaro | 847,749 |
| Canyonlands | 796,057 |
| Kings Canyon | 779,791 |
| Everglades | 778,198 |
| Glacier Bay | 740,044 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 729,893 |
| Mammoth Cave | 660,734 |
| White Sands | 659,742 |
| Crater Lake | 632,242 |
| Wind Cave | 606,258 |
| Big Bend | 568,104 |
| Denali | 543,300 |
| Lassen Volcanic | 504,777 |
| Biscayne | 486,567 |
| Virgin Islands | 471,074 |
| Mesa Verde | 463,130 |
| Great Sand Dunes | 432,498 |
| Kenai Fjords | 425,369 |
| Carlsbad Caverns | 410,778 |
| Pinnacles | 343,208 |
| Petrified Forest | 315,951 |
| Congaree | 287,833 |
| Black Canyon of the Gunnison | 250,086 |
| Channel Islands | 227,186 |
| Guadalupe Mountains | 206,423 |
| Voyageurs | 206,326 |
| Great Basin | 161,210 |
| Wrangell-St. Elias | 108,840 |
| Dry Tortugas | 89,355 |
| North Cascades | 46,925 |
| American Samoa | 43,258 |
| Katmai | 34,479 |
| Isle Royale | 29,091 |
| Lake Clark | 19,778 |
| Gates of the Arctic | 14,923 |
| Kobuk Valley | 7,786 |