The Explore Index

America's National Parks

All 63, and the fight to protect them. Search for yours, or find it on the map below.

01Every park, pinned

From the Sonoran Desert to the Arctic

Sixty-three parks across one map. Point to a pin for the park name, select it to open that park's full guide.

Alaska and Hawaii sit in their insets, lower left. Two parks lie beyond the frame, in American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

02New here?

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Six parks we'd send a first-timer to without a second thought.

Wyoming · est. 1872

Yellowstone

The world's first national park, home to geysers, wolves, and wide-open herds.

California · est. 1890

Yosemite

Granite walls, thundering falls, and giant sequoias in one valley.

Utah · est. 1919

Zion

Towering red cliffs and the river-walk slot of The Narrows.

Arizona · est. 1919

Grand Canyon

A mile-deep, billion-year-old chasm that defies a photograph.

Tennessee · est. 1934

Great Smoky Mountains

The most-visited park, all misty ridges, wildflowers, and black bears.

Montana · est. 1910

Glacier

The Crown of the Continent, with peaks, grizzlies, and Going-to-the-Sun Road.

03The full atlas

All 63, A to Z

Search, filter, or just scroll. Every card links to our full guide for that park.

Showing all 63 parks

Region

Feature

Acadia

Maine

4 million/year est. 1919

American Samoa

22,500/year est. 1988

Arches

Utah

1.8 million/year est. 1971

Badlands

South Dakota

1 million/year est. 1978

571,000/year est. 1980

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

Colorado

336,000/year est. 1999

Bryce Canyon

Utah

2.4 million/year est. 1928

1.4 million/year est. 1971

Carlsbad Caverns

New Mexico

410,000/year est. 1930

Channel Islands

California

263,000/year est. 1980

Congaree

South Carolina

242,000/year est. 2003

2.9 million/year est. 2000

Death Valley

California

1.1 million/year est. 1994

84,000/year est. 1992

11,900/year est. 1980

Gateway Arch

Missouri

2.4 million/year est. 2018

Glacier

Montana

3.1 million/year est. 1910

6.4 million/year est. 1919

Grand Teton

Wyoming

3.3 million/year est. 1929

Great Basin

Nevada

152,000/year est. 1986

Great Sand Dunes

Colorado

438,000/year est. 2004

Great Smoky Mountains

Tennessee

12.1 million/year est. 1934

Guadalupe Mountains

Texas

226,000/year est. 1972

Haleakala

Hawaii

791,000/year est. 1961

Hawaii Volcanoes

Hawaii

1.43 million/year est. 1916

Hot Springs

Arkansas

2.5 million/year est. 1921

Indiana Dunes

Indiana

2.7 million/year est. 2019

Isle Royale

Michigan

28,800/year est. 1940

Joshua Tree

California

3 million/year est. 1994

Katmai

Alaska

36,000/year est. 1980

Kenai Fjords

Alaska

418,000/year est. 1980

Kings Canyon

California

699,000/year est. 1940

Kobuk Valley

Alaska

17,000/year est. 1980

Lake Clark

Alaska

18,500/year est. 1980

Lassen Volcanic

California

420,000/year est. 1916

Mammoth Cave

Kentucky

747,000/year est. 1941

Mesa Verde

Colorado

540,000/year est. 1906

Mount Rainier

Washington

2.3 million/year est. 1899

New River Gorge

West Virginia

1.81 million/year est. 2020

North Cascades

Washington

1 million/year est. 1968

Olympic

Washington

3.5 million/year est. 1938

Petrified Forest

Arizona

800,000/year est. 1962

Pinnacles

California

200,000/year est. 2013

4.3 million/year est. 1915

Saguaro

Arizona

946,000/year est. 1994

Sequoia

California

1.2 million/year est. 1890

Shenandoah

Virginia

1.6 million/year est. 1935

Theodore Roosevelt

North Dakota

800,000/year est. 1978

Virgin Islands

400,000/year est. 1956

Voyageurs

Minnesota

199,000/year est. 1975

White Sands

New Mexico

702,000/year est. 2019

Wind Cave

South Dakota

489,000/year est. 1903

Wrangell-St. Elias

Alaska

82,000/year est. 1980

Yellowstone

Wyoming

4.9 million/year est. 1872

Yosemite

California

3.9 million/year est. 1890

Zion

Utah

4.7 million/year est. 1919

Worth protecting

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