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National Parks in Ohio.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Ohio has more than five NPS units, anchored by Cuyahoga Valley National Park (between Cleveland and Akron) and Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. Other units include Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (Lake Erie), William Howard Taft National Historic Site (Cincinnati), Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, James A. Garfield National Historic Site, First Ladies National Historic Site, and segments of the North Country National Scenic Trail. Cleveland-Hopkins (CLE), Columbus (CMH), and Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky (CVG) anchor different parts of the network. Cuyahoga Valley is the year's busiest unit and runs the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad through the park (operator-published schedule, verify on the railroad's own page). October peak foliage drives the Cuyahoga Valley's busiest week; summer is the heaviest overall season.

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Ohio map with place names

Ohio National Parks map: labeled satellite map, showing 1 locations: Cuyahoga Valley
Ohio's 1 designated National Park. 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 Ohio.

Ohio has 10 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 3 National Historic Sites · 2 National Historical Parks · 1 National Monument · 1 National Park · 1 National Historic Trail · 1 National Scenic Trail · 1 Memorial. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 3,160,872 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Cuyahoga Valley National Park at about 2.86M annual visits.

Map of the broader NPS source-record directory
Every National Park Service site in Ohio, 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. 8 of 10 units are mapped here; long-distance trails and units centered in another state are in the table below.
National Park Service sites in Ohio, mapped Interactive map of Ohio showing the location of 8 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 Park Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map.

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
Cuyahoga Valley National Park National ParkCUVA 2,857,285 July
Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial MemorialPEVI 95,293 July
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park National Historical ParkDAAV 80,761 December
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park National Historical ParkHOCU 55,826 July
James A Garfield National Historic Site National Historic SiteJAGA 32,735 July
William Howard Taft National Historic Site National Historic SiteWIHO 24,956 July
First Ladies National Historic Site National Historic SiteFILA 9,204 July
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument National MonumentCHYO 4,812 July
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail National Historic TrailLECL — —
North Country National Scenic Trail National Scenic TrailNOCO — —

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