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America’s 58 National Parks

Originally posted Monday, September 24, 2007

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 Hawai’i 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.