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The USA has 64 national parks, spread across 31 states and two territories. The map gives each one a numbered pin, and a pin opens our guide to that park where we have written one.
Where is each US national park on the map?
Each US national park sits at its pin, and a square pin marks a park that charges visitors from abroad a $100 surcharge. In crowded areas such as southern Utah, a thin line runs from the pin back to the park's true position. Pin positions come from rounded coordinates, so a pin shows the park's area and not an entrance.
We read the list and the fees on 5 November 2026 on the National Park Service's own pages, and the visits come from its visitation statistics.
Which national parks are in each state?
California has nine national parks, Alaska has eight and Utah has five, the largest counts on the list. A park that crosses a state line sits under the state where the visit mostly happens, with the others named beside it. Chiricahua, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands have no guide on this site yet.
Which states have no national park at all?
Nineteen states have no national park, and that includes New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The others are Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. Washington, D.C., has none either.
Having no national park does not mean having no Park Service site. The Service manages 434 units across all 50 states, D.C. and the territories, and only 64 of them carry the title of national park.
Which pins on the map charge the $100 surcharge?
The square pins are the eleven parks on the Park Service's surcharge list: Acadia, Bryce Canyon, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Zion. Sequoia and Kings Canyon count as one park on that list and have two pins here, so the map shows twelve squares.
Non-residents aged 16 or over pay $100 each at those parks, on top of the standard entrance fee. The $250 annual pass for non-residents covers the surcharge at all of them. Our guide to national park fees for international visitors works through when the pass pays for itself.
Which parks on the map were busiest in 2025?
Great Smoky Mountains National Park was by far the busiest in 2025, with more than twice the visits of any other national park. Kobuk Valley National Park, in Alaska, was the quietest.
| Park | State | Visits in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Great Smoky Mountains National Park | Tennessee and North Carolina | 11,527,939 |
| Zion National Park | Utah | 4,984,525 |
| Yellowstone National Park | Wyoming, Montana and Idaho | 4,762,988 |
| Grand Canyon National Park | Arizona | 4,430,653 |
| Yosemite National Park | California | 4,278,413 |
| Isle Royale National Park | Michigan | 29,091 |
| Lake Clark National Park | Alaska | 19,778 |
| Gates of the Arctic National Park | Alaska | 14,923 |
| Kobuk Valley National Park | Alaska | 7,786 |
The eleven surcharge parks took about 38.5 million of the 94 million visits counted across all 64 parks, which is 41%. Our ranking of the best national parks in the USA weighs those numbers against airport distance and road months.
Mount Rainier National Park, pin 57 in Washington, counted 1,635,342 recreation visits in 2025.
Which pins can share one road trip?
Southern Utah and northern Arizona hold the tightest run of pins on the mainland, and our Southwest national parks loop links Zion, Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon in about 820 miles from Las Vegas. Further north, Yellowstone and Grand Teton sit next to each other, and our Yellowstone and Grand Teton road trip drives between them.
Alaska's eight pins look close on the map, but its frame is drawn smaller than the mainland, so distance there is not what it seems. Hawaii's two parks are on separate islands, and American Samoa and the Virgin Islands appear in boxes because they lie far outside the frame.