Which U.S. National Parks have you visited? (two separate polls)

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Poll 1 of 2
  • Alaska – Denali
  • Alaska – Gates of the Arctic
  • Alaska – Glacier Bay
  • Alaska – Katmai
  • Alaska – Kenai Fjords
  • Alaska – Kobuk Valley
  • Alaska – Lake Clark
  • Alaska – Wrangell-St. Elias
  • American Samoa – American Samoa
  • Arizona – Grand Canyon
  • Arizona – Petrified Forest
  • Arizona – Saguaro
  • Arkansas – Hot Springs
  • California – Channel Islands
  • California – Joshua Tree
  • California – Kings Canyon
  • California – Lassen Volcanic
  • California – Pinnacles
  • California – Redwood
  • California – Sequoia
  • California – Yosemite
  • California/Nevada – Death Valley
  • Colorado – Black Canyon of the Gunnison
  • Colorado – Great Sand Dunes
  • Colorado – Mesa Verde
  • Colorado – Rocky Mountain
  • Florida – Biscayne
  • Florida – Dry Tortugas
  • Florida – Everglades
  • Hawaii – Haleakala
  • Hawaii – Hawai’i Volcanoes
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Poll 2 of 2
  • Indiana – Indiana Dunes
  • Kentucky – Mammoth Cave
  • Maine – Acadia
  • Michigan – Isle Royale
  • Minnesota – Voyageurs
  • Missouri – Gateway Arch
  • Montana – Glacier
  • Nevada – Great Basin
  • New Mexico – Carlsbad Caverns
  • New Mexico – White Sands
  • North Carolina/Tennessee – Great Smoky Mountains
  • North Dakota – Theodore Roosevelt
  • Ohio – Cuyahoga Valley
  • Oregon – Crater Lake
  • South Carolina – Congaree
  • South Dakota – Badlands
  • South Dakota – Wind Cave
  • Texas – Big Bend
  • Texas – Guadalupe Mountains
  • U.S. Virgin Islands – Virgin Islands
  • Utah – Arches
  • Utah – Bryce Canyon
  • Utah – Canyonlands
  • Utah – Capitol Reef
  • Utah – Zion
  • Virginia – Shenandoah
  • Washington – Mount Ranier
  • Washington – North Cascades
  • Washington – Olympic
  • West Virginia – New River Gorge
  • Wyoming – Grand Teton
  • Wyoming, Montana, Idaho – Yellowstone
  • None of them
  • All of them
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I’m Canadian and it was more parks (5) than I initially thought.

It’s possible that I might have gone to Mammoth Cave when I was a toddler, but it could have been a different cave.

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(Actually, I think I also visited Haleakala crater as well, so that makes it 6.)

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Yellowstone, Mesa Verde, Glacier and Yosemite have always provided vivid memories. The other parks were interesting but these four stick out the most in my mind.

5

Had to think about Pinnacles as it may not have been a national park when I visited.

6

32 of them. Doesn’t seem real.

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Haven’t been to Isle Royale,Voyageurs,Virgin Islands,Cuyahoga Valley,American Samoa or any in Alaska.

All the rest I’ve been to at least once, and I’ve been to quite a few multiple times. Some of the best times of my life have happened in the National Parks and Monuments. Ken Burns called them “America’s Best Idea” and I tend to agree with him.

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We did Yellowstone in two trips. The first to see all of geysers, springs, &c. The second coming back from Glacier NP through the Lamar Valley to see the wildlife. It was like Yellowstone is two different parks.

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Not enough. I forgot to check Hot Springs which I have visited.
I’ve been to some Park like places (National Lakeshore) and some trails that have achieved unit status.
I’ve also been to Pukaskwa National Park in Canada.

Brian

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That’s amazing and I’m jealous. My daughter went to Isle Royale a few months ago and had many good things to report about the experience.

mmm

11

I’ve toyed with the notion of making this a bucket list thing. I’ve got a decent start, but I’m gonna have to pick up the pace, or live to 200.

12

34 in total, with plans for another 5 in the next year or two.

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A few, I’m not sure about: When I was 11, my family made a big loop around the US, south to Texas, west to California, and back along a northern route, and I don’t remember exactly where we did and didn’t go along the way. So I posted my best guesses.

I’m absolutely 100% certain I’ve been to Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Cavern, Mammoth Cave, Cuyahoga Valley, and whichever one of Redwood or Sequoia has the tree you can drive through. Oh, and also Mount Ranier, which I think I might have missed clicking.

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Besides the ones I picked in the poll, I think I may have been to Shenandoah as a kid, but I don’t remember well enough to be certain (We lived in North Carolina, so it would have been reasonably close by if we wanted to go there over a long weekend or something). Others, like Acadia, are vivid enough memories that I can definitely say I’ve been there.

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One that’s perenally in last place in these kinds of polls in Voyageurs in Minnesota. I clicked it because we stopped at the visitor center on a trip from Thunder Bay to International Falls and points south (everything is south of there). We stopped at the visitor center just to use the facilities, but I’m still counting it.

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I’m surprised Channel Islands is doing as well as it is; I know I’ve seen it on lists of America’s least visited National Parks, which makes sense since it’s only accessible by boat. But there are frequent ferries from Ventura, so it’s not that hard to get to I guess.

17

We spent a week canoe camping in the Boundary Waters and Voyageurs, amazing place.

18

I live in Tucson, so I have been to Saguaro more times than I can count.

  1. I wish it was more.
19

I’m a loser, I’ve only been to the one that’s 5 minutes from my house (Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio). But I’ve been there a lot! My city’s fire department has jurisdiction over a corner of it (it’s not in my city but it’s in a neighboring township that uses our FD). We’ve done several rescues there.

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I went on a date in Cuyahoga Valley once. Just walking around on a Sunday afternoon in winter. Had it all to ourselves.

When I was working in downtown St. Louis a friend of mine had a job as a park ranger under the Arch, so I’d walk over there on my lunchtime and say hi to her in her Smoky the Bear hat.