The numbers are in and they’re huge: In 2022, the National Park Service recorded 312 million visits—more than in 2021 and nearly as many as they did in the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019. According to the latest stats release from NPS, a dozen individual parks broke their all-time visitation records last year, too. [...]

Can we trust a ranking of U.S. national parks in which Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Zion don’t even break the top 10? We’ll let you decide.

There’s a correlation between social media exposure and national park visitation. This can be positive or negative, depending on whom you ask.

National park visitors continue to make the Smoky Mountains their No. 1 destination, year after year. According to new reports from the National Park Service, the park welcomed over 13 million visitors in 2023, marking its second-highest year ever recorded. There’s no doubt that visitors can’t get enough of what the Smokies has to offer. [...]

The new national park numbers are here. So, which national park gets the most visitors? Here’s all of their rankings.

The new national park visitor numbers are in. The National Park Service says in 2023, 325.5 million people visited an NPS site.

Visiting a national park in the winter is like seeing a new park altogether. The seasonal change delivers a dramatically different landscape.

The recent death of a coyote in Death Valley National Park is serving as a reminder to anyone who visits a national park to slow down. 

What is your favorite desert national park? For many, the debate comes down to Death Valley vs. Joshua Tree National Park.

Looking to check out a new sledding location this year? Here are our top national park picks for sledding hills.