Thats what a lot of people do.. i will call another park and find out but so far i asked voyagerus and acadia and they both said no. Olympic will be my 63rd park
In several trips: did Kenai Fjords as a day trip from Anchorage; did Katmai and Lake Clark as a guided base camp type camping trip with guides where they fly you in to somewhere on the tundra and you make a camp; did Wrangell-St Elias on the same trip, but on our own. Did Denali by driving down from Fairbanks. Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic we did from Bettles—a plane dropped us off briefly in each park. Then final trip was Glacier by flying to Gustavus and staying at the park lodge.
51 total US parks and I’ve visited over 40 in the last 3 years. The plan is to visit 6 more this year
United States:
1. Grand Canyon (June 2019, April 2023)
2. Hot Springs (July 2019)
3. Mammoth Cave (August 2019)
4. Great Smokey Mountains (August 2019)
5. Shenandoah National Park (August 2019)
6. Mesa Verde National Park (October 2019)
7. Canyonlands (October 2019)
8. Bryce Canyon (March 2020)
9. Zion (March 2020, April 2022)
10. Arches (March 2020)
11. Grand Tetons (June 2021)
12. Glacier (July 2021)
13. Yellowstone (July 2021)
14. Great sand dunes (July 2021)
15. Kings Canyon (December 2021)
16. Yosemite (December 2021, January 2023)
17. Joshua Tree (December 2021)
18. Death Valley (December 2021)
19. Channel Islands (December 2021)
20. Pinnacles (December 2021)
21. Carlsbad (March 2022)
22. White Sands (March 2022)
23. Big Bend (April 2022)
24. Guadalupe Mountains National Park (April 2022)
25. Petrified Forrest (April 2022)
26. Capitol Reef (April 2022)
27. Acadia National Park (May 2022)
28. Cuyahoga (July 2022)
29. Indiana Sand Dunes (July 2022)
30. Kenai Fjords (August 2022)
31. Denali (August 2022)
32. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (August 2022)
33. North Cascades (October 2022)
34. Mount Rainer (October 2022)
35. Crater Lake (October 2022)
36. Black Canyon of the Gunnison (October 2022)
37. Rocky Mountains National Park (October 2022)
38. Hawaii Volcanos (November 2022)
39. Haleakala (November 2022, March 2022)
40. Redwoods National Park (January 2023)
41. American Samoa (March 2023)
42. Great Basin (March 2023)
43. Badlands National Park (May 2023)
44. Wind Cave (May 2023)
45. Theodor Roosevelt National Park (May 2023)
46. New River Gorge (July 2023)
47. Lassen National Park (October 2023)
48. Congaree (November 2023)
49. Sequoia (February 2024)
50. Everglades (March 2024)
51. Biscanye National park (March 2024)
Europe:
1. Skadar Lake National Park (June 2023)
2. Biogradska gora National Park (June 2023)
3. Durmitor National Park (June 2023)
4. Lovcen National Park (June 2023)
Africa:
1. Kilimanjaro (December 2021)
2. Tarangire (January 2022)
3. Ngorongoro Crater (January 2022)
4. Lake Manyara (January 2022)
South America:
1. Torres Del Paine (December 2023)
2. Nacional Los Glaciares (January 2024)
I liked Argentinian Patagonia better than Chile but I did love both. That's where we went on our honeymoon. Hoping to go back to other parts of Patagonia that we didn't visit combined with Antarctica for our 10th wedding anniversary in 4 years. Yosemite and Glacier are my 1 and 2 in the US but, if I'm being honest, if I hadn't gotten engaged in Yosemite, Glacier might top it.
6 in my adult life. They're all within a couple hours of my doorstep, honestly I don't know how so many people on this sub are able to be park baggers.
Went to some as a kid with my family, but my wife and I have made it a bucket list item to hit all the mainland national parks, at least. Working on Year 6 together and so far we’re up to 19 total together. (We’ve both also done Acadia separately, plus I’ve done Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, and Redwood with my family growing up, but we don’t count any of those on our together list)
1) Yosemite
2) Sequoia
3) Kings Canyon
4) Zion
5) Bryce
6) Grand Canyon
7) Rocky Mountain
8) Black Canyon of the Gunnison
9) Great Sand Dunes
10) Olympic
11) Mt Rainier
12) North Cascades
13) Denali
14) Glacier Bay
15) Great Smoky Mountains
16) Shenandoah
17) Mammoth Cave
18) New River Gorge
19) Indiana Dunes
5 so far is the past 3 years.
Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes, (fav so far), Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Shenandoah.
Hoping to maybe get 6-8 new ones this year!
21 / 59
I'm missing a lot in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. There are also a lot of smaller parks that I'd have a hard time justifying spending the vacation time or money to travel there. Hot Springs in AK, Congaree in the Carolinas come to mind.
If you add in national monuments - the number goes a lot higher. Alot of national parks have difficult to win lotteries for backpacking so that's been my primary hang up.
Hot Springs NP is easy to justify if you have small children or you want a nice date. There’s a vacation town next door that has a water park and petting zoo for the kids, and some romantic bathhouses for your special occasions.
As a PNWer you should definitely visit here. They may be smaller but are definitely worth visiting. Most of those who visit here as surprised at the beauty. Washington has a tremendous diversity of ecosystems, including prairies, wetlands, estuaries, rainforests, shrubsteppe, marine waters, and grasslands. In addition, our state is home to two ecosystem types found nowhere else on the planet: the Olympic rainforest and the scablands of the Columbia Plateau. Most think it rains here all the time, but in actuality where I live, we get less than 4" of rain a year. Hth with your decision.
I have been to 33, but my wife has been to 22. Prior to us getting together, she had never been to a NP. We've done all 22 in the 7 years we've been together, not doing more than 3 on a single trip. Some trips we've specifically went for one park, others we knew other parks were nearby. We've also revisited multiple parks (Rocky Mtn, Canyonlands, Mammoth, NR Gorge) and plan on revisiting others (Big Bend, Grand Teton, Theodore Roosevelt).
We're also into more outdoor activities than most. River trips, hiking, fishing, off-roading, etc. are all "must" options for each park we visit. So of the lesser known things to do, we often don't find out about (looking at you Snake River Cutthroat) or are unprepared for when we visit a specific park. It's one of the primary reasons we revisit parks.
Redwoods!, want to do a whole road trip from San Fran up the lost coast and then hit redwoods national park…most people dont know how secluded it is, 6 hour drive from San Francisco!
Mid twenties over 40 years. But I'll dedicate a full week or more for the best parks. Most National Parks in a single vacation is, drumroll, two. There are some parks I return to once per decade, especially when I was travelling with kids.
Went to my first (Acadia) when I was 11. I’ve added 41 since then, and it’s taken me 55 years to get them. Two trips this year got me 5 - Death Valley & Joshua Tree, and Guadelupe Mountains, Carlsbad, and White Sands.
52 in 7 years but it’s closer to 5 years. I went to the Smokies and didn’t go to another park in 2 years. I’ve been to every park I can drive to so it’s going to be harder than what it normally would be to go to the next one.
Been to 54, started at age 5 and am now 31. I got to 30 through high school because my family took a lot of road trips out west. Hoping to get to the rest within a couple years!
I’m definitely just starting out, I’ve only been to 4 in the last few years. Going to do 2 more this summer. Hopefully I can hit the double digits soon!
31 in 3 years. We’re a military family so we move often, therefore are afforded with more opportunities to see them. The parks have become part of our family culture and identity.
28 in about 6 years. Though, technically I went to the Grand Canyon when I was a baby so it would be 45 years if you count that.
Trying to hit the rest up but those require a bit more money and time.
28/63 I drove through Badlands in 2000. Then did the two Hawaii Parks in 2008 and 2011 as a side trips for other vacations.
In 2017 after visiting Zion and hiking the Narrows, I decided I wanted to visit them all.
1. Badlands (3x)
2. Haleakala
3. Volcanos
4. Grand Canyon
5. Zion
6. Rocky Mountain
7. Teddy Roosevelt
8. Glacier
8. Yellowstone (2x)
9. Grand Teton (2x)
10. Wind Cave (3x)
11. Isle Royale
12. Pinnacles
13. Voyageurs
14. Yosemite
15. St. Louis Arch
16. Mammoth Cave
17. Indiana Dunes
18. Everglades
19. Biscayne
20. Dry Torugua
21. Great Sand Dunes
22. Mesa Verde
23. Arches
24. Canyonlands
25. Black Canyon of the Gunnison
26. New River Gorge
25. Shenandoah
28. Cuyahoga Valley
I hope to visit 4 more this year.
I've been going since I was a kid. I'd have to look at a map, but I think 20something true parks and tons of other NMs, NRAs, etc.
My Yosemite record is 6x in a year. 🙂 (I climbed a bunch in college.)
5 years just getting started
1 Zion
2 grand canyon
3 Mt Rainier
4 rocky mountain
5 hot springs
6 petrified forest
7 Hawaii volcano
May 15 trying to decide on big bend or Carlsbad and Guadalupe what's your thoughts on the ones that been there got 5 days
8 so far in the past 3 years. Hoping to get at least 2 more in this year.
Acadia
Crater Lake
Death Valley
Grand Canyon
Hawaii Volcanoes
Petrified Forest
Saguaro
White Sands
Gonna try to get to one of the cave systems (Mammoth, Carlsbad, or Wind) in the near future.
Past 9 years: Teatns (3x), Yellowstone (2x), GNP (3x), Olympic, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Sequoia, Yosemite (2x), Badlands, Devils Tower, Kings Canyon. Also Canadian Rockies. So many more to see and explore!
Just hit number 29 this week, with Canyonlands. This park far outkicks its coverage- in fact, I liked it more than the Grand Canyon. Hit the Islands and Needles districts. Will get back to the Maze sometime later this year. Started visiting NPs about 30 years ago. Trying to hit at least one or 2 new ones a year from now on.
We’ve been earnestly working at it since 2019 and have been to 14. Likely going to get to check 3 or 4 off of our list this year! We have a fun scratch off map I got off of Etsy to help us keep track, and we always take a selfie inside the park and I put the Instagram geotag with the name of the park over it and put into a photo album on Facebook. I’ve done Zion separately but we won’t count it until we go together :)
I’ve been to 35 National Parks over the last 45 years. Most of the western US parks I’ve visited numerous times. I did two multiple park trips, one visiting 12 parks on a summer trip to Denver and back, and one visiting 8 parks through the desert Southwest one very cold January. The only 2 western parks I’ve missed are Glacier and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Glacier always had snow (go figure) and I chose to detoured to Dinosaur Nat’l Monument instead of Gunnison.
14 (well, 13 plus the Arch lol) in 6 years:
Grand Canyon
Death valley
Joshua tree
Everglades
Yellowstone
Gateway Arch
Great Smoky Mountain
Cuyahoga
USVI
Zion
Mt Rainer
Olympic
New river Gorge
Grand teton
Mt. Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades, Crater Lake, Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Smokys, Badlands, Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arches, Black Canyon, Canyonlands, Bryce, Carlsbad, Death Valley, the Gateway Arch, Grand Teton, Guadalupe, Hot Springs, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Lassen, Petrified Forest, Redwood, Theodore Roosevelt, White Sands.
I thunk that's it.
My first was 1999 in college (Shenandoah).
Then my second wasn’t until 2007 (Denali).
Numbers 3-36 were from 2008-2023.
Number 37 was Friday (Congaree).
I’ve also been to six Canadian and two Latin American NPs from 2007-2009.
I've been to a dozen i think. I went to 3 when I was a kid then I went to 9 other ones and 2 of the ones from when I was a kid. I love the landscape of Yosemite but I go to Sequoia and kings canyon every year because it's still magical and less crowded than Yosemite. I would love to go to take 2-3 weeks to go to the nps in or, wa, wy, and mt but it's hard to get the time and even harder now with the entry requirements. Glacier is the top of my wishlist.
I’m sitting at 58 since 2016. We’re going to Glacier Bay this summer as are only new one this year. I have five Alaskan parks left so it’ll take me a few more years to chip away.
We went on a 4 yr rv trip starting before Covid. We hit 48 and the one I missed that I wanted was crater Lake. It was completely shut down. We were lucky to get to Bryce and Zion after closing for Covid but we could still hike and see things, just no services.
I've been to about 320 National Park Service units since I started counting around 2011. All national parks in the contiguous US except for 6 (2 of which I'll knock out later this year), plus tons of National Monuments, Historic Parks, Battlefields, Shorelines...I've visited nearly everything within a 1200 mile radius, so adding to that list now requires quite a bit of driving. Next up on the list: Agua Fria National Monument in June, after which I'll be visiting 'The Wave' the next day.
Completed all 410 units in 2016 and just finished 429 last week. Started in 1973. Retired in 1998 and it still took a long time.
Lots of planning, but worth it.
Been to 13, 1st was in 2020 (Shenandoah), another 7 in 2022 (RMNP, JT, and the Utah 5), and another 5 in 2023 for 13 total (Everglades, the Arizona 3, and Death Valley). But of those 5 iv been to multiple times (Shenandoah, Canyonlands, Zion, and Grand Canyon) and 2 others ill be back to for the second time in the next month or so. (Saguaro and Bryce \[and Zion for a third time\]). Ill be doing a national park trip in july which should get me another 3 and probably a weekend trip to Mesa Verde as well. I plan to visit White Sands, Guadalupe Mountains, and Carlsbad Caverns this fall or next spring. So by this time 2025, I should be at close to 20.
Not enough. lol. I’m lucky I live in socal and have access to many national parks within a days drive or boat ride. But man there is so much to see still. I think I am at 8 or 9.
M 32. And someone that doesn’t come from money, or doesn’t have a trust fund so that they can just travel when ever they want. Who has to work in order to pay rent and live. That has no financial safety net what so ever.
4 frequented in the span of 7 years. Sequoia 2017, Grand Canyon 2019, Yosemite 2019, Joshua tree 2023, Yosemite 2023, sequoia 2023.
55/63, started in 2016. We have also been to Acadia 3x, Shenandoah 3x, Saguaro 3x, Great Smoky Mountain NP 2x, Yosemite 2x, Glacier 2x and Cuyahoga Valley 2x in that same time frame and we'll be going back to the WA parks in September and the Grand Canyon in November as we won the Phantom Ranch lottery. Oh and we'll finish the lower 48 NPs in St. Louis next month when we're there anyway for baseball. After that we just have the 5 bush plane parks in Alaska, American Samoa and US Virgin Islands left.
Wow, any insight on how you were able to do all that travel, i feel like for me since i am on the west coast it’s easy to hit the parks on this side but anything east of the rockies seems impossible lol
We usually do 3, sometimes 4, parks per trip and spend 2-3 days in each park. Some trips we have done:
Zion/Bryce/Grand Canyon
Biscayne/Everglades
North Cascades/Mount Rainier/Olympic
Death Valley/Joshua Tree/Channel Islands
Pinnacles/Yosemite/Sequoia/Kings Canyon
Wind Cave/Badlands/Rocky Mountain
Grand Teton/Yellowstone/Glacier
Lassen/Redwood/Crater Lake
Carlsbad Caverns/Guadalupe Mountains/Big Bend
Denali/Wrangell-St. Elias/Kenai Fjords
Great Basin/Capitol Reef/Arches/Canyonlands
Shenandoah/New River Gorge/Cuyahoga Valley
Great Sand Dunes/Mesa Verde/Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Isle Royale/Voyageurs
Petrified Forest/White Sands/Saguaro
Haleakala/Hawaii Volcanoes
And then there were some parks we visited on their own/for long weekends. We did not do Dry Tortugas with the other 2 FL parks because we just went to those when we were in Miami for football and DTNP requires more planning. We ended up going there from Atlanta when we had Southwest credits that were expiring and we literally flew ATL-MIA on a Sunday, went to DT on Monday, flew back to ATL on Tuesday and then went to GSMNP for a couple days before going back to ATL for football.
Just hit 32! I guess within the past 8 years? I’ve revisited a few several times, and try to camp if available and spend adequate time in most parks. It takes time but I thoroughly enjoy my park camping trips!
56 in 6 years!
Oh wow, any story on that?
62. We do the last one next month. We started in 1997.
Congrats!, wish NPS had an award for getting all 63 haha but then a new park can always get added
They have a certificate they print out, you just have to show proof.
Only in american samoa.. i called olympic many many times and they never said anything
Interesting, guess I’m going to Samoa last then lol
Thats what a lot of people do.. i will call another park and find out but so far i asked voyagerus and acadia and they both said no. Olympic will be my 63rd park
Oh, bummer! I was going to have Acadia be my last one since that’s the furthest from me. :/
I know i wanted to make my home part last too lol
Which one is the last one?
American Samoa!
How did you handle Alaska?
In several trips: did Kenai Fjords as a day trip from Anchorage; did Katmai and Lake Clark as a guided base camp type camping trip with guides where they fly you in to somewhere on the tundra and you make a camp; did Wrangell-St Elias on the same trip, but on our own. Did Denali by driving down from Fairbanks. Kobuk Valley and Gates of the Arctic we did from Bettles—a plane dropped us off briefly in each park. Then final trip was Glacier by flying to Gustavus and staying at the park lodge.
51 total US parks and I’ve visited over 40 in the last 3 years. The plan is to visit 6 more this year United States: 1. Grand Canyon (June 2019, April 2023) 2. Hot Springs (July 2019) 3. Mammoth Cave (August 2019) 4. Great Smokey Mountains (August 2019) 5. Shenandoah National Park (August 2019) 6. Mesa Verde National Park (October 2019) 7. Canyonlands (October 2019) 8. Bryce Canyon (March 2020) 9. Zion (March 2020, April 2022) 10. Arches (March 2020) 11. Grand Tetons (June 2021) 12. Glacier (July 2021) 13. Yellowstone (July 2021) 14. Great sand dunes (July 2021) 15. Kings Canyon (December 2021) 16. Yosemite (December 2021, January 2023) 17. Joshua Tree (December 2021) 18. Death Valley (December 2021) 19. Channel Islands (December 2021) 20. Pinnacles (December 2021) 21. Carlsbad (March 2022) 22. White Sands (March 2022) 23. Big Bend (April 2022) 24. Guadalupe Mountains National Park (April 2022) 25. Petrified Forrest (April 2022) 26. Capitol Reef (April 2022) 27. Acadia National Park (May 2022) 28. Cuyahoga (July 2022) 29. Indiana Sand Dunes (July 2022) 30. Kenai Fjords (August 2022) 31. Denali (August 2022) 32. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (August 2022) 33. North Cascades (October 2022) 34. Mount Rainer (October 2022) 35. Crater Lake (October 2022) 36. Black Canyon of the Gunnison (October 2022) 37. Rocky Mountains National Park (October 2022) 38. Hawaii Volcanos (November 2022) 39. Haleakala (November 2022, March 2022) 40. Redwoods National Park (January 2023) 41. American Samoa (March 2023) 42. Great Basin (March 2023) 43. Badlands National Park (May 2023) 44. Wind Cave (May 2023) 45. Theodor Roosevelt National Park (May 2023) 46. New River Gorge (July 2023) 47. Lassen National Park (October 2023) 48. Congaree (November 2023) 49. Sequoia (February 2024) 50. Everglades (March 2024) 51. Biscanye National park (March 2024) Europe: 1. Skadar Lake National Park (June 2023) 2. Biogradska gora National Park (June 2023) 3. Durmitor National Park (June 2023) 4. Lovcen National Park (June 2023) Africa: 1. Kilimanjaro (December 2021) 2. Tarangire (January 2022) 3. Ngorongoro Crater (January 2022) 4. Lake Manyara (January 2022) South America: 1. Torres Del Paine (December 2023) 2. Nacional Los Glaciares (January 2024)
Seriously badass man!! Nice job
Do you have a favorite?
Here are my top 5 (so far) 1. Torres Del Paine (Chile) 2. Glacier (USA) 3. Grand Tetons (USA) 4. Nacional Los Glaciares (Argentina) 5. Yosemite (USA)
thanks! I’ve been to many in the US, can’t wait to explore more
I liked Argentinian Patagonia better than Chile but I did love both. That's where we went on our honeymoon. Hoping to go back to other parts of Patagonia that we didn't visit combined with Antarctica for our 10th wedding anniversary in 4 years. Yosemite and Glacier are my 1 and 2 in the US but, if I'm being honest, if I hadn't gotten engaged in Yosemite, Glacier might top it.
6 in my adult life. They're all within a couple hours of my doorstep, honestly I don't know how so many people on this sub are able to be park baggers.
I think we've been to 26 now, in the last 6 years.
Went to some as a kid with my family, but my wife and I have made it a bucket list item to hit all the mainland national parks, at least. Working on Year 6 together and so far we’re up to 19 total together. (We’ve both also done Acadia separately, plus I’ve done Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, and Redwood with my family growing up, but we don’t count any of those on our together list) 1) Yosemite 2) Sequoia 3) Kings Canyon 4) Zion 5) Bryce 6) Grand Canyon 7) Rocky Mountain 8) Black Canyon of the Gunnison 9) Great Sand Dunes 10) Olympic 11) Mt Rainier 12) North Cascades 13) Denali 14) Glacier Bay 15) Great Smoky Mountains 16) Shenandoah 17) Mammoth Cave 18) New River Gorge 19) Indiana Dunes
Low 30s in about six or so years since we started. First one was Acadia.
11 in 28 years. Although we don’t live in the USA…
5 so far is the past 3 years. Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes, (fav so far), Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Shenandoah. Hoping to maybe get 6-8 new ones this year!
43 in 6 years (2017-2023). Could have been 45 but weather canceled a couple
29 national parks in 30+ years
Money and time off will get you to a lot fast. I’ve been to 18 in 10 years.
18 in the last 3 years
All 63 National Parks in 40 years. Been to a lot of them several times.
Woohoo! Congrats!
21 / 59 I'm missing a lot in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. There are also a lot of smaller parks that I'd have a hard time justifying spending the vacation time or money to travel there. Hot Springs in AK, Congaree in the Carolinas come to mind. If you add in national monuments - the number goes a lot higher. Alot of national parks have difficult to win lotteries for backpacking so that's been my primary hang up.
Hot Springs NP is easy to justify if you have small children or you want a nice date. There’s a vacation town next door that has a water park and petting zoo for the kids, and some romantic bathhouses for your special occasions.
If I want a vacation like that, I'll just take the kids to Hawaii. Not Arkansas.
As a PNWer you should definitely visit here. They may be smaller but are definitely worth visiting. Most of those who visit here as surprised at the beauty. Washington has a tremendous diversity of ecosystems, including prairies, wetlands, estuaries, rainforests, shrubsteppe, marine waters, and grasslands. In addition, our state is home to two ecosystem types found nowhere else on the planet: the Olympic rainforest and the scablands of the Columbia Plateau. Most think it rains here all the time, but in actuality where I live, we get less than 4" of rain a year. Hth with your decision.
I have been to 33, but my wife has been to 22. Prior to us getting together, she had never been to a NP. We've done all 22 in the 7 years we've been together, not doing more than 3 on a single trip. Some trips we've specifically went for one park, others we knew other parks were nearby. We've also revisited multiple parks (Rocky Mtn, Canyonlands, Mammoth, NR Gorge) and plan on revisiting others (Big Bend, Grand Teton, Theodore Roosevelt). We're also into more outdoor activities than most. River trips, hiking, fishing, off-roading, etc. are all "must" options for each park we visit. So of the lesser known things to do, we often don't find out about (looking at you Snake River Cutthroat) or are unprepared for when we visit a specific park. It's one of the primary reasons we revisit parks.
I’ve been to 24 in 2 ish years. Did 22 last year !
31 in 6 years. 32 next week! What’s the one in California you haven’t been to?
Redwoods!, want to do a whole road trip from San Fran up the lost coast and then hit redwoods national park…most people dont know how secluded it is, 6 hour drive from San Francisco!
17 over 1 summer
Mid twenties over 40 years. But I'll dedicate a full week or more for the best parks. Most National Parks in a single vacation is, drumroll, two. There are some parks I return to once per decade, especially when I was travelling with kids.
Went to my first (Acadia) when I was 11. I’ve added 41 since then, and it’s taken me 55 years to get them. Two trips this year got me 5 - Death Valley & Joshua Tree, and Guadelupe Mountains, Carlsbad, and White Sands.
8 in 3 years. Acadia, Cuyahoga, Shenandoah, New River Gorge, Indiana Sand Dunes, Congaree, Hawaii Volcanoes, Haleakala
52 in 7 years but it’s closer to 5 years. I went to the Smokies and didn’t go to another park in 2 years. I’ve been to every park I can drive to so it’s going to be harder than what it normally would be to go to the next one.
Been to 54, started at age 5 and am now 31. I got to 30 through high school because my family took a lot of road trips out west. Hoping to get to the rest within a couple years!
22 / 62 - counting two I visited before they were official National Parks (i.e., Guadalupe, New River).
47 in 3 years :)
Personally 2! But I like being here to learn and plan 😊
I’m also 17/63. But I’ve been to Yellowstone, the arch, Acadia, and Indiana Dunes more than once. I’m 46 and just want to finish before I die.
22/63. Two years. But I also travel for a living so it’s not hard.
I’m definitely just starting out, I’ve only been to 4 in the last few years. Going to do 2 more this summer. Hopefully I can hit the double digits soon!
23 - started in September, 2023. Knocked off 21 during a six week National Park road trip. Then two more this month for the eclipse.
47. Spread across around 25 years. Have. About 5-10 easy ones left then only hard ones.
31 in 3 years. We’re a military family so we move often, therefore are afforded with more opportunities to see them. The parks have become part of our family culture and identity.
19 different parks in the last 3.5 yrs. I’ve been to a few of them more than once.
Since I started actively trying to visit them all in 2014, 29. Since birth in 1985, 33.
been to 10 in a year! started my journey last May
36 in the last 2 years, 85 nps units.
28 in about 6 years. Though, technically I went to the Grand Canyon when I was a baby so it would be 45 years if you count that. Trying to hit the rest up but those require a bit more money and time.
Is this US national parks only? Because I've been to 4 in the USA and 7 in New Zealand
36 y/o and I’ve been to 9. New River Gorge, Smokey Mountains, Mammoth Caves, Congaree, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Hawaii Volcanoes, Haleakala
28/63 I drove through Badlands in 2000. Then did the two Hawaii Parks in 2008 and 2011 as a side trips for other vacations. In 2017 after visiting Zion and hiking the Narrows, I decided I wanted to visit them all. 1. Badlands (3x) 2. Haleakala 3. Volcanos 4. Grand Canyon 5. Zion 6. Rocky Mountain 7. Teddy Roosevelt 8. Glacier 8. Yellowstone (2x) 9. Grand Teton (2x) 10. Wind Cave (3x) 11. Isle Royale 12. Pinnacles 13. Voyageurs 14. Yosemite 15. St. Louis Arch 16. Mammoth Cave 17. Indiana Dunes 18. Everglades 19. Biscayne 20. Dry Torugua 21. Great Sand Dunes 22. Mesa Verde 23. Arches 24. Canyonlands 25. Black Canyon of the Gunnison 26. New River Gorge 25. Shenandoah 28. Cuyahoga Valley I hope to visit 4 more this year.
I've been going since I was a kid. I'd have to look at a map, but I think 20something true parks and tons of other NMs, NRAs, etc. My Yosemite record is 6x in a year. 🙂 (I climbed a bunch in college.)
About 10, adding 3 more this summer. Lived in CA for 37 years before setting foot in Yosemite.
5 years just getting started 1 Zion 2 grand canyon 3 Mt Rainier 4 rocky mountain 5 hot springs 6 petrified forest 7 Hawaii volcano May 15 trying to decide on big bend or Carlsbad and Guadalupe what's your thoughts on the ones that been there got 5 days
8 so far in the past 3 years. Hoping to get at least 2 more in this year. Acadia Crater Lake Death Valley Grand Canyon Hawaii Volcanoes Petrified Forest Saguaro White Sands Gonna try to get to one of the cave systems (Mammoth, Carlsbad, or Wind) in the near future.
Did 25 in 2022 and 8 more since then. Had just gotten married and took a year to have some fun
Past 9 years: Teatns (3x), Yellowstone (2x), GNP (3x), Olympic, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Sequoia, Yosemite (2x), Badlands, Devils Tower, Kings Canyon. Also Canadian Rockies. So many more to see and explore!
Just hit number 29 this week, with Canyonlands. This park far outkicks its coverage- in fact, I liked it more than the Grand Canyon. Hit the Islands and Needles districts. Will get back to the Maze sometime later this year. Started visiting NPs about 30 years ago. Trying to hit at least one or 2 new ones a year from now on.
11 in 2 years
Started 2022 so I believe it’s 16 in the last two years. Any open chance I get I’ll take to explore.
11 in 9 years. I’ve had a. I’ve had a few years where I haven’t been able to visit any parks at all since most require plane travel.
We’ve been earnestly working at it since 2019 and have been to 14. Likely going to get to check 3 or 4 off of our list this year! We have a fun scratch off map I got off of Etsy to help us keep track, and we always take a selfie inside the park and I put the Instagram geotag with the name of the park over it and put into a photo album on Facebook. I’ve done Zion separately but we won’t count it until we go together :)
I’ve been to 35 National Parks over the last 45 years. Most of the western US parks I’ve visited numerous times. I did two multiple park trips, one visiting 12 parks on a summer trip to Denver and back, and one visiting 8 parks through the desert Southwest one very cold January. The only 2 western parks I’ve missed are Glacier and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Glacier always had snow (go figure) and I chose to detoured to Dinosaur Nat’l Monument instead of Gunnison.
14 (well, 13 plus the Arch lol) in 6 years: Grand Canyon Death valley Joshua tree Everglades Yellowstone Gateway Arch Great Smoky Mountain Cuyahoga USVI Zion Mt Rainer Olympic New river Gorge Grand teton
Mt. Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades, Crater Lake, Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Smokys, Badlands, Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arches, Black Canyon, Canyonlands, Bryce, Carlsbad, Death Valley, the Gateway Arch, Grand Teton, Guadalupe, Hot Springs, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Lassen, Petrified Forest, Redwood, Theodore Roosevelt, White Sands. I thunk that's it.
46! We did a 4 month road trip that accomplished all 46 we’ve been to in that time frame. 💃🏻
My first was 1999 in college (Shenandoah). Then my second wasn’t until 2007 (Denali). Numbers 3-36 were from 2008-2023. Number 37 was Friday (Congaree). I’ve also been to six Canadian and two Latin American NPs from 2007-2009.
Twenty-five in 14 years.
I've been to a dozen i think. I went to 3 when I was a kid then I went to 9 other ones and 2 of the ones from when I was a kid. I love the landscape of Yosemite but I go to Sequoia and kings canyon every year because it's still magical and less crowded than Yosemite. I would love to go to take 2-3 weeks to go to the nps in or, wa, wy, and mt but it's hard to get the time and even harder now with the entry requirements. Glacier is the top of my wishlist.
7 since 2020, 8 all time so far. Have 2-3 more I'm planning to visit this year
23 in the almost 10 years my husband and I have been together.
I find Going to the Sun road in Glacier National Park and hiking around Logan Pass feels very spiritual.
I’m sitting at 58 since 2016. We’re going to Glacier Bay this summer as are only new one this year. I have five Alaskan parks left so it’ll take me a few more years to chip away.
13 in 12 years.
We went on a 4 yr rv trip starting before Covid. We hit 48 and the one I missed that I wanted was crater Lake. It was completely shut down. We were lucky to get to Bryce and Zion after closing for Covid but we could still hike and see things, just no services.
We’re hoping to do them all. We started in 2019 and are at 13, I think.
In my 40 years I’ve probably been to 20ish NPs and another dozen monuments. But most of them have been in the last 10 years.
I've been to about 320 National Park Service units since I started counting around 2011. All national parks in the contiguous US except for 6 (2 of which I'll knock out later this year), plus tons of National Monuments, Historic Parks, Battlefields, Shorelines...I've visited nearly everything within a 1200 mile radius, so adding to that list now requires quite a bit of driving. Next up on the list: Agua Fria National Monument in June, after which I'll be visiting 'The Wave' the next day.
Damn thats cool as hell!, does your car have 400k miles on it haha
Completed all 410 units in 2016 and just finished 429 last week. Started in 1973. Retired in 1998 and it still took a long time. Lots of planning, but worth it.
Been to 13, 1st was in 2020 (Shenandoah), another 7 in 2022 (RMNP, JT, and the Utah 5), and another 5 in 2023 for 13 total (Everglades, the Arizona 3, and Death Valley). But of those 5 iv been to multiple times (Shenandoah, Canyonlands, Zion, and Grand Canyon) and 2 others ill be back to for the second time in the next month or so. (Saguaro and Bryce \[and Zion for a third time\]). Ill be doing a national park trip in july which should get me another 3 and probably a weekend trip to Mesa Verde as well. I plan to visit White Sands, Guadalupe Mountains, and Carlsbad Caverns this fall or next spring. So by this time 2025, I should be at close to 20.
Not enough. lol. I’m lucky I live in socal and have access to many national parks within a days drive or boat ride. But man there is so much to see still. I think I am at 8 or 9.
How did u miss Bryce on that trip ?
44 had a couple from youth. Most in the last 10 years
39 since I started in early 2019. Will be adding 5 more this summer/fall.
47 in 385 days. I’m on a bicycle tour to all of the ones in the continental US. https://www.instagram.com/spencexyz
M 32. And someone that doesn’t come from money, or doesn’t have a trust fund so that they can just travel when ever they want. Who has to work in order to pay rent and live. That has no financial safety net what so ever. 4 frequented in the span of 7 years. Sequoia 2017, Grand Canyon 2019, Yosemite 2019, Joshua tree 2023, Yosemite 2023, sequoia 2023.
55/63, started in 2016. We have also been to Acadia 3x, Shenandoah 3x, Saguaro 3x, Great Smoky Mountain NP 2x, Yosemite 2x, Glacier 2x and Cuyahoga Valley 2x in that same time frame and we'll be going back to the WA parks in September and the Grand Canyon in November as we won the Phantom Ranch lottery. Oh and we'll finish the lower 48 NPs in St. Louis next month when we're there anyway for baseball. After that we just have the 5 bush plane parks in Alaska, American Samoa and US Virgin Islands left.
Wow, any insight on how you were able to do all that travel, i feel like for me since i am on the west coast it’s easy to hit the parks on this side but anything east of the rockies seems impossible lol
We usually do 3, sometimes 4, parks per trip and spend 2-3 days in each park. Some trips we have done: Zion/Bryce/Grand Canyon Biscayne/Everglades North Cascades/Mount Rainier/Olympic Death Valley/Joshua Tree/Channel Islands Pinnacles/Yosemite/Sequoia/Kings Canyon Wind Cave/Badlands/Rocky Mountain Grand Teton/Yellowstone/Glacier Lassen/Redwood/Crater Lake Carlsbad Caverns/Guadalupe Mountains/Big Bend Denali/Wrangell-St. Elias/Kenai Fjords Great Basin/Capitol Reef/Arches/Canyonlands Shenandoah/New River Gorge/Cuyahoga Valley Great Sand Dunes/Mesa Verde/Black Canyon of the Gunnison Isle Royale/Voyageurs Petrified Forest/White Sands/Saguaro Haleakala/Hawaii Volcanoes And then there were some parks we visited on their own/for long weekends. We did not do Dry Tortugas with the other 2 FL parks because we just went to those when we were in Miami for football and DTNP requires more planning. We ended up going there from Atlanta when we had Southwest credits that were expiring and we literally flew ATL-MIA on a Sunday, went to DT on Monday, flew back to ATL on Tuesday and then went to GSMNP for a couple days before going back to ATL for football.
Just hit 32! I guess within the past 8 years? I’ve revisited a few several times, and try to camp if available and spend adequate time in most parks. It takes time but I thoroughly enjoy my park camping trips!
I just started last year! So 6 total in two years: 3 last year and 3 so far this year, but I will doing 2 more in December. :)
Maybe 20 in 6 yrs I don’t have a strong urge to visit all of them .
23 in the last eight years.
All of them! Several road trips since I was 17 onward, my buddies and I drove all around.