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National Parks in Florida.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Florida has more than ten NPS units across its peninsula and Keys: Everglades, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, Big Cypress, De Soto, Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Matanzas, Canaveral, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, plus the joint Gulf Islands National Seashore. Miami (MIA) anchors the southern parks; Jacksonville (JAX) anchors the northern. Everglades is the state's flagship, the only subtropical National Park in the United States and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The dry season (December through April) is the practical visiting window for all Florida NPS units: lower humidity, fewer biting insects, and concentrated wildlife sightings as water levels fall. Hurricane season (June through November) and summer heat make peak-summer visits workable but uncomfortable. Dry Tortugas requires a ferry or seaplane from Key West.

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Florida map with place names

Florida National Parks map: labeled satellite map, showing 3 locations: Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, Everglades
Florida's 3 designated National Parks. Dots mark general locations, not entrances. This map does not show every NPS source record in the directory below. Map: National Sites Guide, CC BY 4.0.

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NPS source records in Florida.

Florida has 10 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 3 National Parks · 2 National Seashores · 2 National Monuments · 1 National Preserve · 1 National Memorial · 1 Ecological & Historic Preserve. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 15,484,590 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Gulf Islands National Seashore at about 6.96M annual visits.

Map of the broader NPS source-record directory
Every National Park Service site in Florida, mapped. Each glowing marker is one site, placed at its real coordinates and colored by type. Select a marker for its yearly visits and a link, or use the filters to show or hide a group.
National Park Service sites in Florida, mapped Interactive map of Florida showing the location of 10 National Park Service sites, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. It includes the National Parks Dry Tortugas National Park, Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map. 2

Marker positions are each unit's official NPS coordinates. State outline: U.S. Census cartographic boundary (public domain). Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

UnitDesignation5-yr avg visitsBusiest month
Gulf Islands National Seashore National SeashoreGUIS 6,959,985 July
Big Cypress National Preserve National PreserveBICY 2,358,594 March
Canaveral National Seashore National SeashoreCANA 2,148,049 March
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve Ecological & Historic PreserveTIMU 1,020,812 July
Everglades National Park National ParkEVER 885,539 February
Fort Matanzas National Monument National MonumentFOMA 661,149 July
Biscayne National Park National ParkBISC 595,340 May
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument National MonumentCASA 589,612 March
De Soto National Memorial National MemorialDESO 181,346 March
Dry Tortugas National Park National ParkDRTO 84,164 May

Methodology

Rows come from our combined NPS metadata and Visitor Use Statistics registry, not the Park Service's official census of 433 managed system units. Per-record visit counts come from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; the "5-year average visits" column is the mean of 2021-2025 Recreation Visits. Multi-state records are listed under every state they touch, and their full visit total appears in each state. Official National Park counts use the central 63-park classification rather than the source designation label alone. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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Last updated · 2026-09-10