How many National Parks have you visited?

Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson

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In your lifetime, how many designated National Parks have you been to? For those of you who aren't in the United States, national parks, by whatever name they might be referred to, in your own country, can be included here; for that matter, if you've visited national parks in another country, include them as well.

There are 63 in the United States. Although I have been in most of the 48 contiguous states, I have not been to many national parks. I have been to Acadia National Park, Redwood National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park. I have camped at Joshua Tree a few times, but that was before it was designated a national park. That was my favorite because there were so few other people there, and it was so vast that it was easy to avoid anyone who might be there. There were no amenities, however, so you had to bring whatever you needed with you.
 
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I looked up the list and my "visited" count seems to be at 30 out of the total of 63 national parks. Now if you want to talk about National Historic Monuments and National Historic Sites and National Historic Landmarks (and whatever else they may call them), the count would be larger.

Quiz: What's the National Historic Site/Monument that moves? You might have been on it..... I have.
 
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I believe 8. We got to see a lot during the years we had a motorhome:
White sands
Mesa verde
Hot Springs
Smokey Mtns
Grand Canyon
Big Bend
Grand Teton
Rocky Mtn

We have one of those Senior Passes for the National Parks. We also saw a lot of state parks and Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds in beautiful areas.
 
Here they are A - Z. Arches thru Zion

Arches - Utah
Badlands - South Dakota
Big Bend - Texas
Black Canyon of the Gunnison - Colorado
Bryce Canyon - Utah
Canyonlands - Utah
Capitol Reef - Utah
Carlsbad Caverns - New Mexico
Crater Lake - Oregon
Death Valley - California
Glacier - Montana
Glacier Bay - Alaska
Grand Canyon - Arizona
Grand Teton - Wyoming
Great Sand Dunes - Colorado
Guadalupe Mountain - Texas
Mesa Verde - Colorado
Mount Rainier - Washington
North Cascades - Washington
Olympic - Washington
Petrified Forest - Arizona
Rocky Mountain - Colorado
Saguaro - Arizona
Sequoia - California
White Sands - New Mexico
Wind Cave - South Dakota
Yellowstone - Wyoming Montana Idaho
Zion - Utah
 
Faye Fox said:
Arches - Utah
Badlands - South Dakota
Big Bend - Texas
Black Canyon of the Gunnison - Colorado
Bryce Canyon - Utah
Canyonlands - Utah
Capitol Reef - Utah
Carlsbad Caverns - New Mexico
Crater Lake - Oregon
Death Valley - California
Glacier - Montana
Glacier Bay - Alaska
Grand Canyon - Arizona
Grand Teton - Wyoming
Great Sand Dunes - Colorado
Guadalupe Mountain - Texas
Mesa Verde - Colorado
Mount Rainier - Washington
North Cascades - Washington
Olympic - Washington
Petrified Forest - Arizona
Rocky Mountain - Colorado
Saguaro - Arizona
Sequoia - California
White Sands - New Mexico
Wind Cave - South Dakota
Yellowstone - Wyoming Montana Idaho
Zion - Utah
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And here I thought hubby and I visited a lot of parks.
 
Mary Stetler said:
I've been to Grand Canyon North and south, Mesa Verde, Banff and Glacier in Canada, Arches, Bryce,...a few more whose names escape me presently.
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You sound like me, Mary. I had to "review" trips in my mind and they all run together, mixed in with other beautiful areas like Jackson Hole and the Arkansas Ozarks, Monument Valley and many Indian lands. America is a beautiful place.
 
I had to review what places were National Parks. I didn't really know that so many I had visited in Utah were National parks. I thought Mt Rushmore was a National Park, but was wrong. I thought our Painted Rocks was a National Park, again wrong. Good thing this thread isn't Jeopardy or I would be in the negative triple digits. I also thought Hoovenweep in Colorado was a National Park. Nope! It is a National Monument and since Ken said 63 parks, that really put the quietus on my visits to many Western USA historical and archeological sites.

I learned that although the National Park Service is in charge of a protected land, it may just be a National monument or historical site.

I had to omit my bragging about visiting the John Day Fossil Beds, ancient home of the Giant Killer Pigs that is in Oregon, south of me.
www.nps.gov

Terminator Pigs Of Eastern Oregon - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov www.nps.gov
 
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When I was around nine, my folks went on a trip to San Diego, to visit my Grandparents who lived in California. We went on the train, and they took a side trip to the Grand Canyon. This was in 1954, so it was much different than it would be today, and it was a thrilling experience for me.

The Navaho Indians (this is before they became Native Americans) were on the train and walked up and down selling beautiful silver and turquoise jewelry.
We spent the day looking over the rim of the Grand Canyon, and in the late afternoon, Indians from several different tribes came out and performed ceremonial dances from their tribe’s culture. They all had very different costumes on, according to what they wore for the different dances.

I wanted to ride a mule to the bottom (horse-lover me, of course I did), but my mother refused, and that was probably the best thing for her to do. She was not about to go along with me, and certainly would not have let me go alone.
 
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