See the Top 10 Most-Visited National Parks in 2025

The National Park Service released visitation numbers from 2025, including a ranking of the U.S. parks. See the most and least visited here. The post See the Top 10 Most-Visited National Parks in 2025 appeared first on Outdoors with Bear Grylls.

Mar 27, 2026 - 17:00
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See the Top 10 Most-Visited National Parks in 2025

The National Park Service (NPS) just released visitation numbers from 2025, including a ranking of the U.S. parks by the number of visits. The most-visited park last year was Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, followed by Zion National Park in Utah. The least-visited park was Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska.

The data suggests there were 323 million recreational visits to NPS-managed sites during 2025. That’s fewer visits than 2024, which had  8.85 million more visits (2.7% more).

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Here are the top 10 U.S. national parks by visitation numbers in 2025, according to the NPS:

  1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  2. Zion National Park
  3. Yellowstone National Park
  4. Grand Canyon National Park
  5. Yosemite National Park
  6. Rocky Mountain National Park
  7. Acadia National Park
  8. Grand Teton National Park
  9. Olympic National Park
  10. Glacier National Park

See the full list here.

Did your favorite park rank in the top 10 most-visited national parks in 2025?

Header stock image of Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Tony Barber/Getty Images

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