The Complete US National Park List

National Parks across the world are growing by the year and it’s excellent news. Earth is a beautiful.

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 30 states and two U.S. territories.)

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, bringing in millions of visitors each year, while some underrated parks, like Capitol Reef and Great Basin, remain not-so-hidden gems.

Here’s a list of every national park in the United States so you can plan your next outdoor adventure.

Acadia National Park: Maine

American Samoa National Park: American Samoa

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

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

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

Glacier Bay National Park: Alaska

Glacier National Park: Montana

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

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

New River Gorge National Park: 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

Yellowstone National Park: Wyoming, Montana, Idaho

Yosemite National Park: California

Zion National Park: Utah