America’s 58 National Parks
The system of parks, monuments, memorials, historical parks, seashores and other designations under the National Park Service now includes 391 units. (There are also a number of national monuments administered by other federal agencies, foremost the Bureau of Land Management.)
Of the 391 NPS units, 58 are designated national parks — “generally large natural places having a wide variety of attributes, at times including significant historic assets” — America’s foremost natural treasures.
| Alaska | Denali National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Gates of the Arctic National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Glacier Bay National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Katmai National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Kenai Fjords National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Kobuk Valley National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Lake Clark National Park | 1980 |
| Alaska | Wrangell-St. Elias National Park | 1980 |
| American Samoa | National Park of American Samoa | 1988 |
| Arizona | Grand Canyon National Park | 1919 |
| Arizona | Petrified Forest National Park | 1962 |
| Arizona | Saguaro National Park | 1994 |
| Arkansas | Hot Springs National Park | 1921 |
| California | Channel Islands National Park | 1980 |
| California | Death Valley National Park | 1994 |
| California | Joshua Tree National Park | 1994 |
| California | Kings Canyon National Park | 1940 |
| California | Lassen Volcanic National Park | 1916 |
| California | Redwood National Park | 1968 |
| California | Sequoia National Park | 1890 |
| California | Yosemite National Park | 1890 |
| Colorado | Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park | 1999 |
| Colorado | Great Sand Dunes National Park | 2004 |
| Colorado | Mesa Verde National Park | 1906 |
| Colorado | Rocky Mountain National Park | 1915 |
| Florida | Biscayne National Park | 1980 |
| Florida | Dry Tortugas National Park | 1992 |
| Florida | Everglades National Park | 1947 |
| Hawaii | Haleakala National Park | 1916 |
| Hawaii | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | 1916 |
| Kentucky | Mammoth Cave National Park | 1941 |
| Maine | Acadia National Park | 1919 |
| Michigan | Isle Royale National Park | 1931 |
| Minnesota | Voyageurs National Park | 1975 |
| Montana | Glacier National Park | 1910 |
| Nevada | Great Basin National Park | 1986 |
| New Mexico | Carlsbad Caverns National Park | 1930 |
| North Dakota | Theodore Roosevelt National Park | 1978 |
| Ohio | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | 2000 |
| Oregon | Crater Lake National Park | 1902 |
| South Carolina | Congaree National Park | 2003 |
| South Dakota | Badlands National Park | 1978 |
| South Dakota | Wind Cave National Park | 1903 |
| Tennessee | Great Smoky Mountains National Park | 1930 |
| Texas | Big Bend National Park | 1944 |
| Texas | Guadalupe Mountains National Park | 1972 |
| Utah | Arches National Park | 1971 |
| Utah | Bryce Canyon National Park | 1928 |
| Utah | Canyonlands National Park | 1964 |
| Utah | Capitol Reef National Park | 1971 |
| Utah | Zion National Park | 1919 |
| Virgin Islands | Virgin Islands National Park | 1956 |
| Virginia | Shenandoah National Park | 1935 |
| Washington | Mount Rainier National Park | 1899 |
| Washington | North Cascades National Park | 1968 |
| Washington | Olympic National Park | 1938 |
| Wyoming | Grand Teton National Park | 1929 |
| Wyoming | Yellowstone National Park | 1872 |
The year indicates when the park was established or when an existing area was re-designated as a national park. A few parks — e.g., Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains — are in more than one state.
