Home / National Parks / Information / National Parks by visitation

National Parks by number of annual visits, from most visited to least visited

Numbers are annual recreational visits averaged from year 2008 to year 2017, correction has been made for Kobuk Valley.

Great Smoky Mountains 9,951,197 1
Grand Canyon 4,894,769 2
Yosemite 3,996,500 3
Yellowstone 3,601,693 4
Rocky Mountain 3,447,870 5
Zion 3,233,651 6
Olympic 3,137,907 7
Grand Teton 2,824,532 8
Acadia 2,605,536 9
Cuyahoga Valley 2,359,884 10
Glacier 2,320,217 11
Gateway Arch 2,006,982 12
Joshua Tree 1,728,215 13
Hawaii Volcanoes 1,565,752 14
Bryce Canyon 1,565,676 15
Hot Springs 1,380,780 16
Shenandoah 1,248,024 17
Mount Rainier 1,201,686 18
Arches 1,194,247 19
Haleakala 1,097,150 20
Sequoia 1,060,315 21
Death Valley 1,041,596 22
Everglades 989,970 23
Badlands 931,199 24
Capitol Reef 783,314 25
Saguaro 721,678 26
Petrified Forest 666,467 27
Theodore Roosevelt 607,803 28
Kings Canyon 577,854 29
Wind Cave 571,858 30
Mesa Verde 542,916 31
Canyonlands 539,336 32
Crater Lake 532,266 33
Mammoth Cave 519,706 34
Biscayne 504,554 35
Denali 481,744 36
Glacier Bay 480,802 37
Redwood 432,380 38
Virgin Islands 432,377 39
Lassen Volcanic 425,829 40
Carlsbad Caverns 422,600 41
Big Bend 359,403 42
Channel Islands 307,829 43
Great Sand Dunes 307,125 44
Kenai Fjords 291,727 45
Pinnacles 229,210 46
Voyageurs 227,996 47
Black Canyon of the Gunnison 198,211 48
Guadalupe Mountains 175,588 49
Congaree 121,036 50
Great Basin 105,880 51
Wrangell St Elias 72,362 52
Dry Tortugas 62,764 53
Katmai 36,825 54
North Cascades 24,164 55
Isle Royale 17,972 56
American Samoa 17,321 57
Lake Clark 13,402 58
Kobuk Valley 11,939 59
Gates of the Arctic 11,038 60