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I am surprised that no one has posted this yet! And I am even more surprised that there isn't actually an easy place to find a definitive list of these. How many US National Parks have you visited? There are dozens of National Parks, ranging from the very obviously parky ones (Yellowstone, which is rightfully considered the flagship of the national park system) to the less traditionally park like (Independence Hall, in Philadelphia). There are also National Recreation Areas and National Historic Sites, which are more or less National Parks under a different name. Some National Parks consist of multiple sites, like the Nez Perce National Historic Park, which has 38 different locations in four states. This map, while incomplete, is the best single map I could find: 
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Apr 3, 2016 19:24
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My list includes: Yellowstone National Park Glacier National Park Redwoods National Park (the only three "traditional" big national Parks I've been to) Independence Hall Mount Vernon Boston National Historic Park Statue of Liberty Colonial Battlefield National Park (basically the obvious East Coast tourist parks) Little Big Horn National Battlefield Nez Perce Historical Park Fort Vancouver National Historic Park Golden Gate National Recreation Area
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Apr 3, 2016 19:31
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The Smokies Shenandoah Glacier Yellowstone Tetons Grand Canyon Theodore Roosevelt Badlands Walnut Canyon Sunset Crater Wupatki Devil's Tower Little Bighorn Battlefield Jean Lefettite Edit Castle Clinton Statue of Liberty Independence Hall Retarted Pimple fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 20:42
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Parks: North Cascades (the park, not just the NRA) Mount Rainier Olympic Crater Lake Redwoods Lassen Yosemite Glacier Bryce Canyon Zion Acadia Shenandoah Great Smoky Mammoth Cave Congaree (the map is a few years out of date) Everglades Denali Kenai Fjords Glacier Bay Haleakala I have been within a few hundred feet of Wrangell-St Elias and Biscayne Other NPS sites: Lava Beds Muir Woods Castillo de San Marcos Big Cypress Boston C&O Canal Cumberland Gap Fort Sumter Harpers Ferry Klondike Gold Rush (this is a good place to poop in downtown Seattle) San Juan Island Lewis and Clark Ebey's Landing FDR's house, MLK Jr's house and the White House Chickamauga, Antietam and Shiloh battlefields (these are nicer places to visit than you might expect) Canaveral and Point Reyes National Seashores Most of the National Recreation Areas on the West Coast
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Apr 4, 2016 00:53
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lavaca posted:Parks: That's a lot of places! Was this planned, or did it just kind of happen naturally in a life of travelling?
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Apr 4, 2016 03:28
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As a Canadian, I've only been to Arches Canyonlands And technically Glacier although it was by boat for only an hour. I've seen Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Capitol Reef 100% for sure, and probably quite a few others from planes in that longitudinal corridor.
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Apr 4, 2016 06:08
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Yosemite Joshua Tree Death Valley Sequoia King's Canyon Zion Grand Canyon Carlsbad Caverns Yellowstone Grand Teton Glacier Denali West parks best parks.
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Apr 4, 2016 21:09
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There are probably a bunch I went to as a kid that I haven't been to again but as far as I can figure it off that map... Craters of the Moon Glacier NP Little Bighorn Battlefield Yellowstone Grand Tetons Timpanogas Cave Arches Carlsbad Caverns Olympic NP Coulee Dam Redwood NP Point Reyes Golden Gate Recreation Area Joshua Tree Yosemite Kings/Sequoia Devil's Postpile Shenandoah NP Harper's Ferry C&O (maybe? I've been on the C&O canal many times in different areas) Delaware Water Gap Independence Statue of Liberty Cape Cod National Seashore Assateague Island The Grand Canyon All of the National Park areas in DC (like the National Mall, monuments, etc) Mayyybe some of areas in southern Utah like Canyonlands, Natural Bridges, etc, but I'm not 100% sure. Might as well consider myself as having gone to Muir Woods even though I haven't gone through the entrance proper, but I've hiked and biked all around that area including right past the entrance. Not counting the National Forests I've spent time in as well
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Apr 4, 2016 21:30
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glowing-fish posted:That's a lot of places! Was this planned, or did it just kind of happen naturally in a life of travelling? The western parks are mostly from living in various places up and down the West Coast. The eastern parks came from various road trips. I like to think that the most obscure park I've visited is North Cascades because you can only get there by driving down a very long dirt road or by hiking several miles from the highway. Most people have only visited Ross Lake National Recreation Area (which is where the visitor center and campgrounds are located)
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Apr 5, 2016 01:17
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In no particular order: Rocky Mountain Glacier Yellowstone Grand Tetons Arches Canyonlands (Island in the Sky and Needles) Capitol Reef Bryce Canyon Zion Grand Canyon Crater Lake Olympic Badlands Would like to see more of Olympic, and the other parks in Washington.
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Apr 5, 2016 04:31
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lavaca posted:The western parks are mostly from living in various places up and down the West Coast. The eastern parks came from various road trips. I like to think that the most obscure park I've visited is North Cascades because you can only get there by driving down a very long dirt road or by hiking several miles from the highway. Most people have only visited Ross Lake National Recreation Area (which is where the visitor center and campgrounds are located) But you missed Fort Vancouver Historic Park? Vancouver gets no love. 
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Apr 5, 2016 05:13
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I'm Canadian and live in the far north so i've only ever been to Denali and Gates of the Arctic in Alaska
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Apr 5, 2016 21:03
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Actual Parks: Yosemite Glacier Grand Canyon Mammoth Cave Shenandoah Acadia Mt. Rainier Olympic Bryce Canyon Capitol Reef Everglades Haleakala Hawaii Volcanoes Zion National Monuments: Cedar Breaks Governors Island National Historic Parks: Boston Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
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Apr 5, 2016 22:36
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*waves isle royale in everyone's faces*
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Apr 6, 2016 19:39
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I know it's just my eyes tricking me cause of the scale, but that map makes our natl parks look pretty rinky dink. Considering how huge they are when you get there. I'm half rear end phone posting, if someone is feeling nice can they get a map of all the np's/wilderness areas/state parks etc all overlayed on a map?
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Apr 6, 2016 19:52
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life is a joke posted:I know it's just my eyes tricking me cause of the scale, but that map makes our natl parks look pretty rinky dink. Considering how huge they are when you get there. I'm half rear end phone posting, if someone is feeling nice can they get a map of all the np's/wilderness areas/state parks etc all overlayed on a map? http://gis1.usgs.gov/csas/gap/viewer/padus/Map.aspx quote:The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a national geodatabase, developed by USGS GAP, that represents public land ownership and conservation lands, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas, for the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,the Pacific and US Virgin Islands. The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation status codes that both denote the level of biodiversity preservation and indicate other natural, recreational and cultural uses.
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Apr 6, 2016 21:41
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Cool, thanks 
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Apr 6, 2016 21:46
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So Illinois and Kansas are the only States to not have a national park, memorial, or lake shore. Pathetic
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Apr 6, 2016 23:42
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mastershakeman posted:*waves isle royale in everyone's faces* My neighbor went there a couple of years ago and loved it. I'd like to make it up there some time.
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Apr 7, 2016 15:43
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Hmmmmm... Rocky Mountain Zion Capitol Reef Bryce Canyon Black Canyon of the Gunnison Joshua Tree Petrified Forest So not a ton, but I only started a few years ago.
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Apr 14, 2016 06:56
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Arches Bryce Canyon Canyonlands Carlsbad Caverns Death Valley Grand Canyon Grand Teton Great Smokey Mountains Guadalupe Mountains Haleakala Mammoth Cave Mesa Verde Petrified Forest Rocky Mountain Yellowstone Zion Blue Ridge Parkway Canyon de Chelly Cape Hatteras Dinosaur Pictured Rocks Sleeping Bear Dunes
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Apr 15, 2016 16:02
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Yosemite and Zion are probably my favorites. Just got back from a trip to Arches/Canyonlands last week. Pacific West: Yosemite NP Pinnacles NP Devils Postpile NM Crater Lake NP Lassen Volcanic NP Olympic NP Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP Death Valley NP Redwood NP Muir Woods NM Point Reyes NS Golden Gate NRA Intermountain West: Grand Canyon NP Lake Mead NRA Rocky Mountain NP Great Sand Dunes NM Black Canyon of the Gunnsion NM Mesa Verde NP Colorado NM Yellowstone NP Grand Teton NP Glacier NP Zion NP Bryce Canyon NP Cedar Breaks NM Arches NP Canyonlands NP Other: Badlands NP Pictured Rocks NL Sleeping Bear Dunes NL Acadia NP Hawaii Volcanoes NP I'm kicking myself for not going to Isle Royale when I lived nearby.
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Apr 25, 2016 00:13
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Hey Americans, you need to stop your government from being so loving awful. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2016/04/11/135044/the-rise-to-power-of-the-congressional-anti-parks-caucus/ quote:A Center for American Progress analysis found that between January 2013 and March 2016 members of Congress filed at least 44 bills or amendments that attempted to remove or undercut protections for parks and public lands—making the 114th Congress the most anti-conservation Congress in recent history. You guys have badass parks and it's scary that people want to change that.
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Apr 25, 2016 02:29
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Picnic Princess posted:Hey Americans, you need to stop your government from being so loving awful. Yeah it's fueled in part by the gigantic shitheads that swept into congress a few years ago and in part by some very very rich people trying very hard to buy up as much public land as they can so they can have their private playgrounds which is supremely hosed up. Beyond that you have the typical "but we need to log and mine and drill for oil everywhere even if there's no reason to do it the environment is dumb" stuff going on. Unlikely that real national parks and monuments and all that will fall to that kind of stuff but BLM land in particular I think is at risk because it's managed more locally and easier to get parceled off without people flipping out. there's a somewhat decent chance this year that congress will get balanced back more towards the Dems who are generally better about these issues, as this is a presidential election year which is when the Dems actually get out and vote and do more local and congressional voting. For some stupid rear end reason the off inbetween presidential elections are when Dems decide not to vote at all and republicans make big gains in congress. This is simplifying things but still.
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Apr 25, 2016 17:09
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In no particular order: Sequoia Yosemite Grand Tetons Yellowstone Glacier Mt Rainer Arches Haleakalā I live on the east coast but for some reason I never seem to travel around my own backyard.
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Apr 26, 2016 14:40
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I'm Australian and I've done a few road trips across the states so I've been to Yosemite Grand Canyon Zion Bryce Canyon Capitol Reef Arches Canyonlands Grand Teton Yellowstone Glacier Mt Rainier Olympic Redwoods Big Bend Great Smoky Mountains Congaree Glacier is #1 followed by Yosemite and Zion.
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Apr 29, 2016 13:06
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Agreed with that top three in that order.
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Apr 30, 2016 01:54
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I've only ever been to Yosemite but was disappointed by how crowded it was. I'm looking forward to exploring deeper into the mountainous abyss this summer with some friends though.
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Im_drunk posted:I've only ever been to Yosemite but was disappointed by how crowded it was. I'm looking forward to exploring deeper into the mountainous abyss this summer with some friends though. Yeah if you get away from the valley and popular trails it's nice. Pity the valley is so built up now, it'd be awesome if it was more backcountry but on the other hand providing better access to people is important too and blah blah
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