Ansenuza National Park
Argentina
Ansenuza is one of the newest national parks of Argentina and protects Mar Chiquita, an immense salt lake in the…
1 ticket or tour
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Newest national parks in the world
National parks are still being created, and the newest often tell a story of restoration rather than of untouched wilderness. Ansenuza, around Argentina's great salt lake of Mar Chiquita, was declared in 2022 after a long campaign for its flamingos. Spain made the Sierra de las Nieves its sixteenth national park in 2021; Tanzania carved Nyerere out of the Selous Game Reserve in 2019; India's Kuno was upgraded in 2018 ahead of the cheetah reintroduction; Japan protected the subtropical forest of Yanbaru in 2016.
Sierra de las Nieves National Park
Andalusia, Spain
The Sierra de las Nieves is the limestone massif that rises between Marbella and Ronda in the province of Málaga, less…
5 tickets & tours
Nyerere National Park
Tanzania
Nyerere is the southern safari that Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam send their visitors to, and the fly-in day trip is its…
43 tickets & tours
Kuno National Park
Madhya Pradesh, India
Kuno is a large, dry forest park in the Sheopur district of northern Madhya Pradesh, in central India, which was…
3 tickets & tours
Pantelleria National Park
Sicily, Italy
Pantelleria is the volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia, nearer to Africa than to Europe, reached by a short…
13 tickets & tours
Yanbaru National Park
Japan
Yanbaru, a word meaning the mountains and forests, is the name that Okinawans give to the hilly, thinly peopled…
1 ticket or tour
Kerama Shoto National Park
Japan
The Kerama islands are a cluster of some three dozen small, steep, green islands, only four of them inhabited, lying…
1 ticket or tour
Sierra de Guadarrama National Park
Madrid, Spain
The Sierra de Guadarrama is the wall of granite mountains on the northern horizon of Madrid, an hour from the city, the…
7 tickets & tours
Dinokeng Game Reserve
Gauteng, South Africa
Dinokeng is the Big Five reserve forty minutes north of Pretoria and a little over an hour from Johannesburg and its…
12 tickets & tours
Lusaka National Park
Zambia
Lusaka National Park is the small fenced park on the south-eastern edge of Zambia's capital, half an hour from the…
3 tickets & tours
Sipoonkorpi National Park
Finland
Sipoonkorpi is a small park of forest, rocky hills and old farmland on the north-eastern edge of the Helsinki…
No online ticket
Montgrí, Medes Islands and Baix Ter Natural Park
Catalonia, Spain
This natural park on the Costa Brava, in Catalonia, about an hour and three quarters north of Barcelona and forty-five…
3 tickets & tours
New parks tend to have fewer facilities and fewer visitors than the classics, which can be the point. The list ranks the parks in this catalogue by founding date, most recent first.