I have been to 24 of the 63 national parks of the United States (everywhere below with pictures – not counting places that are no longer national parks). Which national parks have you been to?
Hot Springs National Park – originally Hot Springs Reservation – 1832
Yosemite National Park – originally Yosemite Grant – 1864
Yellowstone National Park – 1872
Mackinac Island State Park – originally Mackinac National Park – 1875
Sequoia National Park – 1890
Kings Canyon National Park – originally General Grant National Park – 1890
Mount Rainier National Park – 1899
Chickasaw National Recreation Area – originally Sulphur Springs Reservation, then Platt National Park – 1902
Crater Lake National Park – 1902
Wind Cave National Park – 1903
Sullys Hill National Game Preserve – originally Sullys Hill National Park – 1904
Mesa Verde National Park – 1906
Petrified Forest National Park – originally Petrified Forest National Monument – 1906
Lassen Volcanic National Park – originally Cinder Cone National Monument and Lassen Volcanic National Monument – 1907
Grand Canyon National Park – originally Grand Canyon National Monument and Marble Canyon National Monument – 1908
Pinnacles National Park – originally Pinnacles National Monument – 1908
Olympic National Park – originally Mount Olympus National Monument – 1909
Zion National Park – originally Mukuntu-weap National Monument – 1909
Glacier National Park – 1910
Rocky Mountain National Park – 1915
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park – originally Abraham Lincoln National Park – 1916
Acadia National Park – originally Sieur de Monts National Monument, then Lafayette National Park – 1916
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park – originally Hawaii National Park – 1916
Haleakalā National Park – originally Hawaii National Park – 1916
Denali National Park & Preserve – Mount McKinley National Park – 1917
Katmai National Park & Preserve – originally Katmai National Monument – 1918
Great Basin National Park – originally Lehman Caves National Monument – 1922
Bryce Canyon National Park – originally Bryce Canyon National Monument – 1923
Carlsbad Caverns National Park – originally Carlsbad Cave National Monument – 1923
Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine (Baltimore) – originally Fort McHenry National Park – 1925
Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve – originally Glacier Bay National Monument – 1925
Shenandoah National Park – 1926
Arches National Park – originally Arches National Monument – 1929
Grand Teton National Park – originally Jackson Hole National Monument – 1929
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve – originally Great Sand Dunes National Monument – 1932
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park – originally Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument – 1933
White Sands National Park – originally White Sands National Monument – 1933
Death Valley National Park – originally Death Valley National Monument – 1933
Saguaro National Park – originally Saguaro National Monument – 1933
Everglades National Park – 1934
Great Smoky Mountains National Park – 1934
Theodore Roosevelt National Park – originally Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area – 1935
Dry Tortugas National Park – originally Fort Jefferson National Monument – 1935
Gateway Arch National Park – originally Jefferson National Expansion Memorial – 1935
Joshua Tree National Park – originally Joshua Tree National Monument – 1936
Capitol Reef National Park – originally Capitol Reef National Monument – 1937
Channel Islands National Park – originally Channel Islands National Monument – 1938
Badlands National Park – originally Badlands National Monument – 1939
Isle Royale National Park – 1940
Mammoth Cave National Park – 1941
Big Bend National Park – 1944
Virgin Islands National Park – 1956
Canyonlands National Park – 1964
Guadalupe Mountains National Park – 1966
Indiana Dunes National Park – originally Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore – 1966
Biscayne National Park – originally Biscayne National Monument – 1968
North Cascades National Park – 1968
Redwood National Park – 1968
Cuyahoga Valley National Park – originally Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area – 1974
Voyageurs National Park – 1975
Congaree National Park – originally Congaree Swamp National Monument – 1976
New River Gorge National Park & Preserve – originally New River Gorge National River – 1978
Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve – originally Gates of the Arctic National Monument – 1978
Kenai Fjords National Park – originally Kenai Fjords National Monument – 1978
Kobuk Valley National Park – originally Kobuk Valley National Monument – 1978
Lake Clark National Park & Preserve – originally Lake Clark National Monument – 1978
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve – originally Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument – 1978
National Park of American Samoa – 1988