By state · 50 + DC + territories

National Park Service sites, by state.

Every NPS unit in every state and territory, grouped — National Parks plus the Monuments, Recreation Areas, Seashores, Historic Sites, and other designations.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

The National Park Service administers more than 400 units across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories. The map is uneven: a small number of states carry a disproportionate share. California has the most NPS units of any state, followed by Alaska, Arizona, and Utah. Multi-state units (Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; Death Valley in California and Nevada; Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina) appear under each state they touch. Per-state detail pages — with unit-by-unit visit counts, designations, and the seasonal pattern across each state's parks — are rolling out by demand; the high-volume states (California, Alaska, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, Florida) will land first. This hub is meant to be the navigation surface: from here you can find every state's NPS footprint and step into the state-specific pages once they exist, with the rest staying searchable through this table in the meantime.

Every state, every unit.

56 state and territory buckets cover the network. Per-state detail pages will follow in the next launch cohort. The states with the highest search demand are flagged below; their dedicated pages will rank for "national parks in [state]" queries with full unit listings, multi-state-unit notes, and per-state seasonal patterns.

State / territoryNPS unitsAnnual visits (5-yr avg)
AlaskaAK 19 2,696,802
AlabamaAL 11 7,888,880
ArkansasAR 9 4,277,638
American SamoaAS 1 17,668
ArizonaAZ 25 18,272,253
CaliforniaCA 34 35,788,264
ColoradoCO 17 7,447,255
ConnecticutCT 5 6,249,195
District of ColumbiaDC 36 43,107,539
DelawareDE 4 184,029
FloridaFL 10 15,484,590
GeorgiaGA 12 13,237,941
GuamGU 1 386,994
HawaiiHI 9 3,133,487
IowaIA 4 168,384
IdahoID 10 5,185,477
IllinoisIL 8 165,906
IndianaIN 4 3,074,297
KansasKS 10 102,933
KentuckyKY 9 2,669,010
LouisianaLA 6 685,770
MassachusettsMA 18 14,372,300
MarylandMD 27 22,539,712
MaineME 7 10,257,971
MichiganMI 6 2,905,030
MinnesotaMN 6 1,473,523
MissouriMO 14 3,703,142
Northern Mariana IslandsMP 1 0
MississippiMS 10 14,838,641
MontanaMT 10 8,284,900
North CarolinaNC 12 40,018,135
North DakotaND 5 756,408
NebraskaNE 10 470,112
New HampshireNH 2 6,242,567
New JerseyNJ 11 19,555,721
New MexicoNM 19 2,343,473
NevadaNV 7 7,728,007
New YorkNY 32 24,091,976
OhioOH 10 3,160,872
OklahomaOK 7 2,259,171
OregonOR 10 2,358,864
PennsylvaniaPA 26 16,918,583
Puerto RicoPR 1 1,174,426
Rhode IslandRI 4 34,893
South CarolinaSC 8 1,276,064
South DakotaSD 7 4,313,239
TennesseeTN 15 29,660,558
TexasTX 18 5,447,368
UtahUT 17 16,096,851
VirginiaVA 33 40,279,812
U.S. Virgin IslandsVI 5 511,942
VermontVT 3 6,283,716
WashingtonWA 17 8,222,551
WisconsinWI 4 1,116,027
West VirginiaWV 8 13,169,954
WyomingWY 10 8,741,968

Total NPS unit-state listings: 644 (multi-state units counted once per state they cross). The unit count is higher than the network's ~400 because of those multi-state listings.

Methodology

Visit counts are official "Recreation Visits" from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025. The five-year average column averages 2021-2025 to reduce single-year noise; the latest-year column shows the most recent complete calendar year. Some NPS units publish other statistic types (Tent Campers, Recreation Visit Hours) that are not used here. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service. State assignment comes from the NPS Data API's states field for each unit. Units that operate across multiple states are listed under each state they cover; the total-units figure above counts each unit once per state.

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Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.

Last updated · 2026-05-19