Best National Parks
The top pick for national park visits is Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a ParksRanked Score of 0, from 120 places ranked by our own ParksRanked Score.
120 places · 120 ranked · ranked honestly, never by who pays.
These are the best places we track for national park visits, ranked purely by our own ParksRanked Score. We show every qualifying place; any without enough data yet carries an Insufficient ranking data marker instead of a guessed score.
Top of the list right now: Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a ParksRanked Score of 0.
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Zion National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
- Yosemite National Park
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Acadia National Park
- Grand Teton National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Komodo National Park
- Glacier National Park
- Shenandoah National Park
- Crater Lake National Park
- Haleakalā National Park
- Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
- Kaziranga National Park
- Serengeti National Park
- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
- Virunga National Park
- Plitvice Lakes National Park
- Teide National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Banff National Park
- Thingvellir National Park
- Kruger National Park
- Hot Springs National Park
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Saguaro National Park
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
- Big Bend National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Kakadu National Park
- Lorentz National Park
- White Sands National Park
- Olympic National Park
- Chitwan National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Rwenzori Mountains National Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
- Congaree National Park
- Wind Cave National Park
- Biscayne National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
- Pinnacles National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Great Basin National Park
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- North Cascades National Park
- Northeast Greenland National Park
- Arches National Park
- Keoladeo National Park
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
- Voyageurs National Park
- Simien Mountains National Park
- Death Valley National Park
- Badlands National Park
- Isle Royale National Park
- Sequoia National Park
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Everglades National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Denali National Park and Preserve
- Channel Islands National Park
- Katmai National Park
- Lake Clark National Park
- National Park of American Samoa
- Redwood National Park
- Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park
- Parque Nacional de Garajonay
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Gates of the Arctic National Park
- Parque Nacional de Doñana
- New River Gorge National Park & Preserve
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Manas National Park
- Shiretoko National Park
- Parque Nacional Iguazú
- Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses
- Etosha National Park
- Valley of Flowers National Park
- Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
- Tongariro National Park
- Mount Kilimanjaro National Park
- Karoo National Park
- Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
- Wadi Hitan National Park
- Garden Route National Park - Wilderness Section
- Lahemaa rahvuspark
- Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park
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Common questions
How many places are on this list?
120 places, 120 of them ranked.
What is the top pick for national park visits?
Great Smoky Mountains National Park leads with a ParksRanked Score of 0.
How does ParksRanked decide the order?
By our own ParksRanked Score only. Membership reflects our curated selections from the directory; no advertising or partnership ever influences the ranking, and sparse-data places are clearly marked.