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The U.S. National Park Service estimates that 331 million people visited a national park, monument or site last year. It’s easy to guess the most visited national parks. These are the visitor counts in 2024:
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee and North Carolina): 12.19 million visitors.
• Zion National Park (Utah): 4.95 million visitors.
• Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona): 4.92 million visitors.
• Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Idaho, Montana): 4.74 million visitors.
• Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado): 4.15 million visitors.
But what parks are the least visited? The visitor count for the top 5 range from 12,000 to 22,000. Answers here.
– Staff report, The Travel 100