Which National Park Gets the Most Visitors? Here are all 63 Parks Ranked from 2023

The National Park Service saw another year for the record books in 2023. The agency recently released the numbers from last year, and it shows a steady increase in visitors at most parks, with some setting new records. So, which national park gets the most visitors?

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park continues to top the list, but there were plenty of ranking changes from 2022 to 2023.

Take a look at this year’s most visited national parks:

2023 Ranking	National Park	Number of Visitors	2022 Ranking
1	Great Smoky Mountains	13,297,647	1
2	Grand Canyon	4,733,705	2
3	Zion	4,623,238	3
4	Yellowstone	4,501,382	7
5	Rocky Mountain	4,115,837	4
6	Yosemite	3,897,070	6
7	Acadia	3,879,890	5
8	Grand Teton	3,417,106	12
9	Joshua Tree	3,270,404	8
10	Olympic	2,947,503	14
11	Glacier	2,933,616	10
12	Cuyahoga Valley	2,860,059	9
13	Indiana Dunes	2,765,892	11
14	Hot Springs	2,502,967	13
15	Bryce Canyon	2,461,269	15
16	Gateway Arch	2,422,836	17
17	New River Gorge	1,707,223	18
18	Mount Rainier	1,674,294	16
19	Hawaii Volcanoes	1,620,294	19
20	Shenandoah	1,576,008	21
21	Arches	1,482,045	20
22	Capitol Reef	1,268,861	22
23	Death Valley	1,099,632	25
24	Badlands	1,046,400	27
25	Sagurao	1,010,906	28
26	Sequoia	980,567	24
27	Everglades	810,189	23
28	Canyonlands	800,322	29
29	Haleakala	791,292	26
30	Theodore Roosevelt	746,862	32
31	White Sands	729,096	30
32	Glacier Bay	703,659	36
33	Mammoth Cave	654,450	33
34	Kings Canyon	643,065	34
35	Wind Cave	592,459	35
36	Biscayne	571,242	31
37	Crater Lake	559,976	37
38	Petrified Forest	520,491	39
39	Great Sand Dunes	512,219	41
40	Big Bend	509,129	38
41	Mesa Verde	505,194	40
42	Denali	498,722	44
43	Lassen Volcanic	418,978	43
44	Redwood	409,105	42
45	Carlsbad Caverns	394,121	45
46	Kenai Fjords	387,525	46
47	Black Canyon of the Gunnison	357,069	48
48	Virgin Islands	343,685	53
49	Pinnacles	341,220	49
50	Channel Islands	328,746	47
51	Congaree	250,114	52
52	Guadalupe Mountains	227,340	51
53	Voyageurs	220,825	50
54	Great Basin	143,265	54
55	Dry Tortugas	84,285	55
56	Wrangell-St. Elias	78,305	56
57	North Cascades	40,351	58
58	Katmai	33,763	57
59	Isle Royale	28,965	59
60	Kobuk Valley	17,616	61
61	Lake Clark	16,728	60
62	National Park of American Samoa	12,135	63
63	Gates of the Arctic	11,045	62

As the numbers reveal, the popularity of many parks grew last year. And in some cases, some parks saw huge spikes while others lost a bit of their crowds.

What park did you visit in 2023? What are you looking forward to in 2024?

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