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National Parks in Vermont.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Vermont has one NPS unit (Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock) plus the Appalachian National Scenic Trail's Vermont section through the Green Mountains and segments of several other national trails. Burlington (BTV) is the main anchor airport; Lebanon (LEB, New Hampshire) is closer to Woodstock. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller is the country's only NPS unit dedicated to the history of conservation and sustainable forestry. The Rockefeller family's gift of the mansion, gardens, and managed forest preserves a continuous land-management record back to the 19th century. The park's full visitor program (mansion tours, carriage trail guided walks, summer concerts) runs late May through October. The Green Mountains stretch of the AT is best for thru-hiking July through September given New England weather; mud season in April-May closes many trails. Fall foliage runs late September through mid-October at elevation and drives the year's heaviest tourism statewide.

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NPS source records in Vermont.

Vermont has 3 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 2 National Scenic Trails · 1 National Historical Park. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 6,283,716 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Appalachian National Scenic Trail at about 6.22M annual visits.

Every National Park Service site in Vermont, 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. 1 of 3 units are mapped here; long-distance trails and units centered in another state are in the table below.
National Park Service sites in Vermont, mapped Interactive map of Vermont showing the location of 1 National Park Service site, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. 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
Appalachian National Scenic Trail National Scenic TrailAPPA 6,215,118 July
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park National Historical ParkMABI 68,598 October
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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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 · 2026-08-28