Largest National Parks in the United States by Area 2023
About This Dataset
Largest National Parks in the United States by Area 2023
The United States has 63 national parks. This chart ranks the largest by area in square kilometres, using the 2023 areas published by the National Park Service.
Analysis
Wrangell-St. Elias is the largest national park in the United States at 33,682.6 square kilometres, 1.1 times the 30,448.1 of Gates of the Arctic. The 12 parks shown cover 79% of the combined area of all 63 national parks.
Key Findings
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Wrangell-St. Elias leads in Area (square kilometres) with 33,682.60 in 2023.
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Average Area (square kilometres) in 2023: 13,897 · median: 11,823.
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Gap in 2023: Wrangell-St. Elias is 8.2× larger than Glacier.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of national parks of the United States
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2023 · 12 observations
- Measure
- Area (square kilometres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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