Visit all 63 National Parks across America with this free printable checklist! You can make plans and keep track of your stops with this easy to use checklist!
Have you driven past the road signs while cruising down the highways and wanted to nerd out on a deep dive of national parks fun facts? Or is that just me? National Parks are a must-see on family road trips and I will let you know why!
National Parks are the highlight reel of the coolest places to see in America, and protected for us to enjoy them. How cool is that? The best way to see them all is to print off the free printable national parks checklist and head out on a road trip to explore!
What is a National Park?
A national park is a landmark set aside and protected so that it remains intact for future generations. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, which created the world’s first national park.
The national park service is the group responsible for caring for the parks. This encompasses the duties to “preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations”. Which means that every national historic site should look the same for our kids and grandchildren as they do today.
How Many National Parks Are there?
There are 63 named national parks that cover 50 states, the District of Columbia and United States territories. There are also 423 national park sites (or national park units) that include historic sites, monuments, and memorials. These are not technically national parks, but fall under the park sites.
Alphabetical List of national parks
- Acadia
- American Samoa
- Arches
- Badlands
- Big Bend
- Biscayne
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison
- Bryce Canyon
- Canyonlands
- Capitol Reef
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Channel Islands
- Congaree
- Crater Lake
- Cuyahoga Valley
- Death Valley
- Denali
- Dry Tortugas
- Everglades
- Gates of the Arctic
- Gateway Arch
- Glacier Bay
- Glacier
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Teton
- Great Basin
- Great Sand Dunes
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Guadalupe Mountains
- Haleakala
- Hawai’i Volcanoes
- Hot Springs
- Indiana Dunes
- Isle Royale
- Joshua Tree
- Katmai
- Kenai Fjords
- Kings Canyon
- Kobuk Valley
- Lake Clark
- Lassen Volcanic
- Mammoth Cave
- Mesa Verde
- Mount Rainier
- New River Gorge
- North Cascades
- Olympic
- Petrified Forest
- Pinnacles
- Redwood
- Rocky Mountain
- Saguaro
- Sequoia
- Shenandoah
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Virgin Islands
- Voyageurs
- White Sands
- Wind Cave
- Wrangell-St. Elias
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite
- Zion
Free List of National Parks in the USA Checklist
This printable national parks checklist is a one page wonder! It lists all 63 national parks in alphabetic order. You can download, save and print this and use it to mark off each national park as you visit!
When it comes to trips with my kids, any screen free entertainment is a win. This printable is great to include in a travel journal where you can junk journal your memories from each of these special trips! It becomes an activity and memory in one!
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National Parks Passport Books
For anyone who likes a unique souvenir or having a collection, you will love the passport books. This logbook is a place to collect stamps (officially called cancellations) from each of the national parks. They are typically located at the visitor centers and park stores.
Insider Tip: Some parks have more than one location to get stamps, and occasionally, there are secret stamps you have to ask for!
There are two different books you can choose from. The smaller passport book is great for people who might do a bit of traveling but don’t ever plan on hitting all the stops. It just has pages within each section where you can collect whatever stops you visit.
The big passport book has a designated spot for every location and allows you to collect stamps from other National Park Service (NPS) sites, including national monuments, historic sites, and more.
Fun Facts About National Parks
- California’s Sequoia National Park is home to the largest living single-stem tree in the world, the wonderfully named General Sherman. The tree is approximately 275 feet tall and weighs approximately 1,900 metric tons.
- When a giant sequoia tree fell and blocked a road in Sequoia National Park in California in 1937, the National Park Service simply created a tunnel through the 275-foot by 21-foot tree.
- Ribbon Falls in Yosemite is nine times taller than Niagara Falls
- Utah has five national parks are all within easy driving distance of each other, which means that you can cross off five national parks from your list on just one trip.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park with more than 9 million guests per year, followed by Grand Canyon National Park, which gets more than 4 million visits per year.
Alaska is home to one of the least visited national parks: Kobuk Valley National Park receives just 3,000 visitors per year.
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