Most Visited National Parks in the United States 2025
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.
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.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
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 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 2025.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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