Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tennessee, United States
The Great Smoky Mountains, on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, are the most visited national park in the…
9 tickets & tours
North America
Most visited national parks in North America
Great Smoky Mountains has been the most visited national park in the United States every year since records began, with more than eleven million visits, about as many as the next three combined. It charges no entrance fee, only a parking tag. Zion, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain and Yosemite each receive between four and five million, and Banff, the busiest in Canada, is in the same range.
Zion National Park
Utah, United States
Zion is the most visited of Utah's parks and the closest to Las Vegas, about two and a half hours away, and the…
45 tickets & tours
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming, United States
Yellowstone occupies the north-western corner of Wyoming, overlapping into Montana and Idaho, and it is a very large…
27 tickets & tours
Banff National Park
Alberta, Canada
Banff is Canada's first and most visited national park, ninety minutes west of Calgary, and it is sold in every…
61 tickets & tours
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona, United States
The Grand Canyon, in northern Arizona, is the most famous natural sight in the United States, and the first thing a…
180 tickets & tours
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado, United States
Rocky Mountain is the park of the Front Range above Estes Park, ninety minutes from Denver, and the tours sold for it…
36 tickets & tours
Yosemite National Park
California, United States
Yosemite lies on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, in central California, about four hours by road from San…
17 tickets & tours
Acadia National Park
Maine, United States
Acadia is the granite-and-sea park on Mount Desert Island in Maine, five hours north of Boston, and it is visited from…
14 tickets & tours
Grand Teton National Park
Wyoming, United States
Grand Teton is the range of granite peaks above Jackson Hole in Wyoming, ten miles south of Yellowstone, and it is sold…
38 tickets & tours
Olympic National Park
Washington, United States
Olympic is the park of rainforest, mountains and wild coast on the peninsula across the water from Seattle, and its…
15 tickets & tours
Glacier National Park (Montana)
Montana, United States
Glacier National Park lies in the Rocky Mountains of north-western Montana, against the Canadian border, and should not…
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Joshua Tree National Park
California, United States
Joshua Tree is the desert park where the Mojave and the Colorado deserts meet, two and a half hours east of Los Angeles…
11 tickets & tours
The figures are official counts by the National Park Service and Parks Canada, with the year shown. They explain why Zion runs a mandatory shuttle, why Arches, Rocky Mountain, Yosemite and Glacier have used timed entry, and why the quiet season, where the roads stay open, is the better one.