Trip Ideas National Parks Use This Complete List of All the U.S. National Parks to Plan Your Next Adventure Here's a list of every national park in the United States so you can plan your next outdoor adventure. By Madeline Bilis Madeline Bilis Twitter Website Madeline Bilis is a writer, editor, and guidebook author based in New England. She has a soft spot for brutalist buildings and a degree in journalism from Emerson College. She was previously an assistant editor at Travel + Leisure. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines Updated on December 13, 2022 Fact checked by Elizabeth MacLennan Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Getty Images In 2021, the United States added a new national park to its roster of incredible public lands: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. This West Virginia park runs along 53 miles of the New River and encompasses over 70,000 acres of the beautiful wooded gorge. Plus, it offers plenty of opportunities for hiking, biking, climbing, and white water rafting. Its addition to the long list of U.S. national parks made us wonder — just how many national parks are there? The U.S. National Park Service was founded in 1916, but the country's first national park predates it — Yellowstone National Park debuted in 1872 when President Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law. In the years since, America has amassed a total of 63 national parks, from the northern reaches of Alaska to the waters of the Florida Keys. (To see them all, you'd need to visit 31 states and two U.S. territories.) Getty Images While the National Park System comprises 423 national park sites, only 63 of them have the "National Park" designation in their names. The other sites fall into different National Park System categories like National Historic Sites, National Monuments, National Seashores, National Recreation Areas, and others. The NPS's website has a handy U.S. National Parks map, as well as a U.S. National Parks list for reference. Some of the most popular national parks in the country, like Glacier National Park and Yosemite National Park, bring in millions of visitors each year, while some underrated parks, like Capitol Reef and Great Basin, remain not-so-hidden gems. Getty Images Ahead, see the full list of all 63 national parks in the U.S. Acadia National Park: Maine Arches National Park: Utah Badlands National Park: South Dakota Big Bend National Park: Texas Biscayne National Park: Florida Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park: Colorado Getty Images Bryce Canyon National Park: Utah Canyonlands National Park: Utah Capitol Reef National Park: Utah Carlsbad Caverns National Park: New Mexico Channel Islands National Park: California Congaree National Park: South Carolina Alisha McDarris/Travel + Leisure Crater Lake National Park: Oregon Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Ohio Death Valley National Park: California, Nevada Denali National Park: Alaska Dry Tortugas National Park: Florida Everglades National Park: Florida Gates of the Arctic National Park: Alaska Gateway Arch National Park: Missouri, Illinois Glacier Bay National Park: Alaska Glacier National Park: Montana Getty Images Grand Canyon National Park: Arizona Grand Teton National Park: Wyoming Great Basin National Park: Nevada Great Sand Dunes National Park: Colorado Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Tennessee, North Carolina Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Texas Haleakalā National Park: Hawaii Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park: Hawaii Hot Springs National Park: Arkansas Irjaliina Paavonpera/Travel + Leisure Indiana Dunes National Park: Indiana Isle Royale National Park: Michigan Joshua Tree National Park: California Katmai National Park: Alaska Kenai Fjords National Park: Alaska Kings Canyon National Park: California Kobuk Valley National Park: Alaska Lake Clark National Park: Alaska Lassen Volcanic National Park: California Mammoth Cave National Park: Kentucky Mesa Verde National Park: Colorado Mount Rainier National Park: Washington National Park of American Samoa: American Samoa New River Gorge National Park and Preserve: West Virginia North Cascades National Park: Washington Olympic National Park: Washington Petrified Forest National Park: Arizona Pinnacles National Park: California Redwood National Park: California Rocky Mountain National Park: Colorado Saguaro National Park: Arizona Sequoia National Park: California Shenandoah National Park: Virginia Theodore Roosevelt National Park: North Dakota Virgin Islands National Park: United States Virgin Islands Voyageurs National Park: Minnesota White Sands National Park: New Mexico Wind Cave National Park: South Dakota Wrangell—St. Elias National Park: Alaska Getty Images Yellowstone National Park: Wyoming, Montana, Idaho Yosemite National Park: California Zion National Park: Utah Getty Images Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit