Most Visited National Parks in the United States 2025

Source: Wikipedia - List of national parks of the United States

Most Visited National Parks in the United States 2025

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Key Findings

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Great Smoky Mountains leads in Recreation visitors with 11,527,939 in 2025.

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Average Recreation visitors in 2025: 4,559,552 · median: 4,125,375.

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Gap in 2025: Great Smoky Mountains is 3.9× larger than Joshua Tree.

About This Dataset

Most Visited National Parks in the United States 2025

Recreation visits are the National Park Service's count of people entering a park for recreation. This chart ranks the most visited national parks in the United States by recreation visitors in 2025.

Analysis

Great Smoky Mountains had 11,527,939 recreation visitors in 2025, 2.3 times the 4,984,525 of Zion. All 63 national parks together received 93,892,121 visits, and the 12 shown here account for 58% of them.

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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12 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

11,527,939

Great Smoky Mountains

Recreation visitors · 2025

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Recreation visitors

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2025

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia - List of national parks of the United States
Coverage: 12 entities · 2025 · 12 observations
Measure: Recreation visitors
Last updated: 10 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.

Rankings & Full Data

12 records · Recreation visitors · ranked by 2025

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#	Category	2025
🥇	Great Smoky Mountains	11,527,939
🥈	Zion	4,984,525
🥉	Yellowstone	4,762,988
4	Grand Canyon	4,430,653
5	Yosemite	4,278,413
6	Rocky Mountain	4,171,431
7	Acadia	4,079,318
8	Grand Teton	3,800,648
9	Olympic	3,584,187
10	Glacier	3,136,557
11	Cuyahoga Valley	3,025,325
12	Joshua Tree	2,932,644

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States Visit ↗

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