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National Parks Checklist

Posted on July 20, 2009 By Tom No Comments on National Parks Checklist
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After our trip to Maine and Acadia National Park, Laura and I started talking about all of the national parks that we had visited and tried making a list. We knew we had left out quite a few, but the list we came up with was still impressive. Since I was kayaking in Congaree National Park yesterday, I decided to make a more thorough list.

I had to be very specific. I only included true national parks, and not national monuments, national historic parks, national seashores, national forests, or anything like that. There’s just too many of them. I also didn’t include Lucayan National Park in the Bahamas or Pinacate National Park in Mexico. Here’s the list…

  • North Cascades – WA
  • Olympic – WA
  • Yosemite – CA
  • Kings Canyon – CA
  • Sequoia – CA
  • Joshua Tree – CA
  • Grand Canyon – AZ
  • Petrified Forest – AZ
  • *Saguaro – AZ
  • Yellowstone – WY
  • Rocky Mountain – CO
  • *Black Canyon of the Gunnison – CO
  • Mesa Verde – CO
  • Wind Cave – SD
  • Badlands – SD
  • Acadia – ME
  • Mammoth Cave – KY
  • Great Smoky Mountains – TN & NC
  • Everglades – FL
  • Shenendoah – VA

That makes a total of 21 national parks visited. Those in the list above marked with * were only national monuments when we visited them, and have only recently become national parks. I don’t know if I should count them, but if you’ve been there, you’ve been there, so why not?

There are many more I’d like to visit – Glacier, Carlsbad, Crater Lake, Grand Tetons, and Denali, to name a few – and many of these listed above that I’d like to visit again. Despite crowds and frustration, these are special places, and I feel privileged to have visited them.

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