# List the national parks you've visited! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493 "2009-03-31T20:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/21 "2009-04-01T14:24:32Z")
Oops I forgot to post my list. (Just the parks, maybe I’ll add a supplemental monument list): Acadia Arches Badlands Big Bend Biscayne Black Canyon of the Gunnison Bryce Canyon Canyonlands Capitol Reef Carlsbad Caverns Crater Lake Congaree Death Valley Dry Tortugas Everglades Glacier Grand Canyon Grand Teton Great Basin Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Haleakala Hawaii Volcanoes Hot Springs Joshua Tree Kings Canyon Lassen Volcanic Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Mount Rainier Olympic Petrified Forest Redwood Rocky Mountain Saguaro Sequoia Theodore Roosevelt Wind Cave Yellowstone Yosemite Zion ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/22 "2009-04-01T19:09:40Z")
> [@Rayne\_Man](#): > > These are the UK ones I have visited:- > > Broads > Dartmoor > Lake District > New Forest > Peak District > Snowdonia. Me too, if you substitute “Exmoor” for “New Forest”. It doesn’t seem like much, but we don’t have as many as you Yanks do! ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/23 "2009-04-01T20:01:12Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Me too, if you substitute “Exmoor” for “New Forest”. It doesn’t seem like much, but we don’t have as many as you Yanks do! But we are getting another one next year - The South Downs :- [http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/press/pressreleases/pr-southdowns.htm](http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/press/pressreleases/pr-southdowns.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/24 "2009-04-02T00:35:44Z")
I’ll have to check my memory for US national parks, but I may be the only SDMB poster to have been to this one! Switzerland’s National Park > **[Home - Der Schweizerische Nationalpark im Engadin](https://www.nationalpark.ch/de/)** > > Echt wild: Seit 1914 ist der Schweizerische Nationalpark im Engadin und Val Müstair das älteste und am besten geschützte Wildnisgebiet der Alpen. What was special about it - beautiful mountain scenery and one of the rare places where you can go for a day’s walk in the mountains of Switzerland without seeing any sign of human habitation at all. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/25 "2009-04-02T00:36:27Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > **atarxy22** , is that part of a job, or you have a lot of time on your hands and are somewhat obsessive? 😉 I do not expect to ever got to the parks in the Guam or American Samoa. I doubt Only my hobby/obsession unfortunately. I guess I’m what’s known as a park groupie. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/26 "2009-04-02T00:44:35Z")
P.S. I learned from reading this thread and checking with Wikipedia that one of the “parks” I tell people I have on my list, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the St. Louis Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion below it) is not a National Park after all. I always thought it was. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/27 "2009-04-02T01:57:30Z")
Non-US national parks I’ve visited: Mexico: Gran Desierto del Pinacate New Zealand: Abel Tasman National Park Nelson Lakes National Park Westland National Park Fiordland National Park Tasmania: Cradle Mountain Douglas-Apsley Freycinet Oz: Royal National Park Blue Mountains National Park The Grampians National Park Otway National Park Stirling Range National Park Nambung National Park Walpole-Nornalup National Park ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/28 "2009-04-02T03:30:42Z")
OK, if you just list the national parks, its pretty wimpy Crater Lake NP, 1961 Yellowstone NP, even stayed overnight, but that was in 1966 Glacier NP, rode through on the train in 2004 But in the other “nationals” Oregon Caves National Monument 1961 Fr. McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine 1966 John Day Fossil Beds National Monument 2004 Independence National Historical Park 1966 Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site 1966 Gettysburg National Military Park 1966 Lincoln Memorial 1966 Jefferson Memorial 1966 Arlington National Cemetery 1966 National Mall 1966 I do, however, live in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area… ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/29 "2009-04-02T03:46:06Z")
I’ve been to plenty of Canadian national parks and sites, but the US NPS site is just to easy to lookup by state I’ll just post those. **Washington** Olympic Peninsula **Oregon** Crater Lake **California** San Francisco Maritime Park Fort Point Alcatraz Death Valley Redwoods Lava Beds Lassen **Utah** Arches Bryce Canyon Zion **Arizona** Wupatki Sunset Crater Grand Canyon **Montana** Glacier Little Bighorn **Wyoming** Yellowstone **Colorado** Mesa Verde **New Mexico** Bandelier White Sands Carlsbad Caverns **North Dakota** Theodore Roosevelt park **South Dakota** Badlands Mt Rushmore Jewel Cave Wind Cave **Hawaii** USS Arizona ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/30 "2009-04-02T07:17:53Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > As some of you know, I used to do scientific work for the US National Park Service, and it changed my life. Where did you work, what did you do, and when did you do it? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493/31 "2009-04-02T13:31:25Z")
I knew there were a few. The in-laws gave me a NPS book Christmas and I was a little surprised going through it to see how many I’d visited. Being a geologist, between field trips and work you have the opportunity to hit a few. Acadia Agate Fossil Beds Alaska Public Lands Alcatraz Island Alibates Flint Quarries Antietam Appalachian Arches Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Aztec Ruins Badlands Bandelier Bent’s Old Fort Big Bend Big Cypress Big Thicket Black Canyon Of The Gunnison Blue Ridge Bryce Canyon Canyon De Chelly Canyonlands Capitol Reef Capulin Volcano Carlsbad Caverns Casa Grande Ruins Cedar Breaks Chaco Culture Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Colorado Denali Dinosaur Everglades Florissant Fossil Beds Ford’s Theatre Fort Davis Fort Sumter Fossil Butte Franklin Delano Roosevelt Gates Of The Arctic George Washington Birthplace Gettysburg Glacier Glacier Bay Glen Canyon Golden Gate Golden Spike Grand Canyon Great Basin Great Sand Dunes Great Smoky Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Haleakala Hawaii Volcanoes Hot Springs Hovenweep Jamestown Jefferson John F Kennedy John Muir Joshua Tree Kenai Fjords Kings Canyon Klondike Gold Rush Korean War Veterans Lake Mead Lake Meredith Lava Beds Lewis & Clark Lincoln Lyndon B Johnson Manassas Mesa Verde Mojave Mount Rainier Muir Woods Natchez Trace National Aviation National Mall Natural Bridges Navajo Olympic Oregon Organ Pipe Cactus Ozark Padre Island Pecos Petrified Forest Petroglyph Pictured Rocks President’s Park (White House) Presidio of San Francisco Rainbow Bridge Redwood Rio Grande Rocky Mountain Saguaro Sand Creek Massacre Santa Fe Sequoia & Kings Canyon Shenandoah Shiloh Sitka Statue Of Liberty Sunset Crater Volcano Tallgrass Prairie Thomas Jefferson U S S Arizona Valley Forge Vietnam Veterans Washington White Sands World War II Memorial Wrangell - St Elias Yellowstone Yosemite Yucca House Yukon - Charley Rivers Zion [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-the-national-parks-youve-visited/491493.md?page=1)