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Name the U. S. National Parks

How many U.S. National Parks can you name?
National parks, not national monuments, seashores, etc...
Two parks are not pictured on this map
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Last updated: January 5, 2021
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First submittedFebruary 3, 2013
Times taken39,083
Average score39.7%
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State
Park
Alaska
Denali
Gates of the Arctic
Glacier Bay
Katmai
Kenai Fjords
Kobuk Valley
Lake Clark
Wrangell-St. Elias
Arizona
Grand Canyon
Petrified Forest
Saguaro
Arkansas
Hot Springs
California
Channel Islands
Joshua Tree
Kings Canyon
Lassen Volcanic
Pinnacles
Redwood
Sequoia
Yosemite
California,
Nevada
Death Valley
State
Park
Colorado
Black Canyon of the
Gunnison
Great Sand Dunes
Mesa Verde
Rocky Mountain
Florida
Biscayne
Dry Tortugas
Everglades
Hawaii
Haleakala
Hawaii Volcanoes
Indiana
Indiana Dunes
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Maine
Acadia
Michigan
Isle Royale
Minnesota
Voyageurs
Missouri
Gateway Arch
Montana
Glacier
Nevada
Great Basin
New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
White Sands
North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt
Ohio
Cuyahoga Valley
Oregon
Crater Lake
State
Park
South Carolina
Congaree
South Dakota
Badlands
Wind Cave
Tennessee,
North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains
Texas
Big Bend
Guadalupe Mountains
Utah
Arches
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Zion
Virginia
Shenandoah
Washington
Mount Rainier
North Cascades
Olympic
West Virginia
New River Gorge
Wyoming
Grand Teton
Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho
Yellowstone
n/a
National Park of
American Samoa
Virgin Islands
National Park
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Level 11
Feb 9, 2013
How did I miss Denali and Grand Canyon? I've been to both.
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Level 11
Feb 9, 2013
12/59
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Level 21
Aug 23, 2023
63/63
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Level 63
Jan 6, 2021
You didn't miss them because you've been there.
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Level 77
Jan 7, 2021
Don’t worry, I missed Yellowstone which I’ve literally been researching for the past five years
+13
Level 54
Aug 10, 2013
I think being an east coaster has handicapped me on this quiz... Only got 7. Yikes!
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Level 48
Jul 25, 2014
Should accept just Bryce--listed that way on some of the websites & literature...
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Level ∞
Mar 24, 2015
Okay
+3
Level 61
Aug 20, 2016
Also it's not a canyon, so I have no idea why it's called Bryce Canyon National Park
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Level 56
Jun 21, 2022
Yeah, it’s a Mesa
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Level 21
Aug 23, 2023
Same with Capitol Reef.
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Level 68
Mar 21, 2015
Some of these are pretty... obscure. I've only been to five of them.
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Level 65
Aug 5, 2015
somehow it's also satisfying when you run out of answers to think of, only to realize after time lapsed that you actually did not know any of the remaining answers. Gave it my all! 12/59
+6
Level 70
Aug 6, 2015
Got them all, but I've lived in 6 of them. Helps to have a husband with a career in the National Park Service.
+1
Level 49
Aug 6, 2015
Anyone else get some of the more obscure from reading Nevada Barr?
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Level 75
Jun 5, 2016
A friend recommended I start reading the Anna Pigeon books. Wish now I'd taken her advice before I took this quiz. :)
+5
Level 28
Aug 8, 2015
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is by far the most visited national park, yet only 38% guessed it?
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Level 46
Aug 19, 2019
Well I was certain that was one, but I was spelling it “Smokey” for some reason (faulty memory?) and it was not accepting it. So perhaps quite a few more guessed it but spelled it differently?
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Level 41
May 17, 2020
that's exactly why I missed it.
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Level 84
Jan 7, 2021
Yep, after trying "Smokey Mountains", I gave up on that one.
+3
Level ∞
Jan 7, 2021
Smokey Mountains will work now.
+4
Level 65
Mar 18, 2020
I missed "Great". I really think just smoky mountains should be accepted.
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Level 51
Aug 10, 2015
I only missed Pinnacles.

For my punishment, I should go there.

+13
Level 61
Aug 20, 2016
Be thankful you didn't miss Death Valley.
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Level 88
Aug 11, 2017
Not much of a punishment! ;)
+1
Level 21
Aug 23, 2023
its cool
+1
Level 49
Feb 10, 2016
I should have gotten five more than I did, two of which I've been too.
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2016
I was reminded of the scene in West Wing where President Bartlet offers to list and describe in detail each and every one of America's National Parks to Josh. In the US it would be feasible - and probably a worthwhile bucket list item - to visit them all. Here in Australia we have over 500 - over 200 just in my state of Queensland. Probably not gonna try and make it to all of them.
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2016
Of this list, I've managed to visit 12 so far. Gonna try and knock a few more off next time I'm stateside.
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Level 92
Sep 14, 2016
So far I've been to 41 of the 59 U.S. parks. Not sure I'll make it to them all though - American Samoa is pretty far and some of the parks in Alaska are very remote. At my age, don't think I'm up to the challenge of roughing it for a week in park only accessible by bush or seaplane.
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Level 75
Jan 14, 2021
This list doesn't include all the national monuments, nation scenic riverways, etc. They are fantastic places to visit, too.
+5
Level 23
Oct 3, 2016
17 years old been to 18 national parks, 41 to go im gonna make it.
+5
Level 49
Aug 11, 2017
Good Luck!
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Level 43
Aug 11, 2017
I knew most of the ones on the west coast (only half of Utah, Alaska, and California though), mostly because my family always takes really long road trips to different parks. My dad also samples in Lassen.
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Level 91
Aug 11, 2017
Where's Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore?
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Level 82
Aug 11, 2017
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Level 25
Jan 20, 2021
its a national park now :)
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Level 73
Aug 11, 2017
I was much worse at this than I thought -- I think because I associate my thoughts/memories with actual places rather than the official nomenclature of the park.

Would've been a hard quiz either way but I surprised myself in that I only got 21 right.

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Level 73
Jan 6, 2020
DId much better after the quiz was reset recently. The national park quarters are a good visual aid for remembering all the parks. Also, I managed to visit one of the parks recently (Gateway Arch), but I still have only been to ten of the parks. It's interesting how many amazing, remarkable natural sites there are in America that aren't National Parks, either. The National Monuments alone are another incredible list of places to see.
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Level 75
Aug 12, 2017
We've tried three times to visit Carlsbad while traveling, and each time something bad happened - someone in the car became very ill or we had car trouble. It is now permanently off our list.
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Level 82
Jan 31, 2019
You had been forewarned - CarlsBAD.
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Level 75
Mar 15, 2020
:)
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Level 60
Aug 22, 2017
Black Canyon of the Gunnison is easily the most metal park name. Also one of the 3 I've been to and missed.
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Level 20
Mar 2, 2018
Ugh... I got killed by the time limit!!! 58/59 Only needed 20 more seconds.
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Level 61
Apr 16, 2018
could you accept "great smokey mountains" and "black canyon"?
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Level 75
May 19, 2018
You should add Gateway Arch, our newest national park!
+20
Level ∞
Sep 10, 2018
I added it, but I don't like it. It should be a national monument, not a national park. It's only 90 acres in size.
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Level 75
Oct 21, 2018
Yea, I'm kind of with you there. Granted, the "park" label does not mean much of anything within the NPS, but still I feel like it doesn't do justice to the spectacular peaks of Rocky Mountain to have this artifact of the automobile age sharing the distinction.
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Level 75
Jan 15, 2021
I used to agree, but now I've decided that as an urban NP it makes sense. It's not only the arch - it includes the former Jefferson Expansion Memorial Park which memorializes the Louisiana Purchase and the beginning of the Lewis and Clark journey which greatly expanded our country and opened the west to settlement. It also includes the Old Courthouse which was the site of the Dred Scott case as well as the location of an attempt in 1872 for suffragist Virginia Minor to vote. There is also a large Black History collection. The architecture of the arch is amazing, (although one trip to the top was enough for me - the jerking and creaking as the cars adapted to the curvature was a bit unnerving.) The beauty of the arch along with the setting along the Mississippi River in my opinion makes it okay to expand the designation to a National Park rather than historical park or monument - just barely.
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Level 82
Jan 10, 2022
the monument vs park is less about size and more about paperwork, tbh. A national park basically has more protections and can't be changed as easily as a monument
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Level 70
Sep 8, 2018
Arches and Yellowstone are absolutely magnificent NPs! Definitely wanna see Acadia once, that region must be wonderful. Sad that the region around Lake Tahoe isn't a national park, it's of the most iconic regions I've ever seen!
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Level 86
Oct 21, 2018
Acadia's pretty cool. Probably my second favorite NP in the eastern half of the country after Everglades.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2020
Oh absolutely. Of the total two national parks I've been to, Acadia is probably the best.
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Level 48
Feb 16, 2019
Indiana Dunes is now a National Park!
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Level 78
Feb 16, 2019
+1!! we Hoosiers are eager to see this list reflect that Indiana Dunes is now a national park, thanks!
+2
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2019
Added
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Level 77
Feb 18, 2019
It doesn't show up in the answers list though.
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Level ∞
Feb 18, 2019
Just counted. I've been to 23 of the 61 parks! Hope to see them all some day.
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Level 76
Feb 18, 2019
23 for me as well :) It'll be a good excuse to visit American Samoa one day!
+2
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2019
Wow, that's a lot for a person who's not from the U.S.!
+1
Level 75
Mar 15, 2020
You beat me by two.
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Level 81
Mar 19, 2020
22 for me.
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Level 95
Feb 18, 2019
Indiana Dunes does not appear on the list, Grand Canyon and Sequoia does not appear on the map.
+2
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2019
Fixed, thanks.
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Level 75
Feb 21, 2019
Earlier today, I discovered that I went to Shenandoah National Park here and Cuyahoga Valley NP here
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Level 84
Dec 26, 2019
Cuyahoga National Park is quite beautiful for being only minutes from downtown Cleveland.
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Level 68
Dec 21, 2019
White Sands just became a national park yesterday (December 20) so you should add it to the quiz.
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Level ∞
Dec 25, 2019
Done.
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Level 87
Dec 26, 2019
A fair number of these were National Monuments when I was younger and traveling around the US, and they only got "promoted" to National Parks much later. That made this tricky for me.
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Level 29
Jan 14, 2020
53/62 for someone who has only been to... wait, never mind, I've only been to 1 national Monument and horseshoe bend. Yippee.
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Level 57
Feb 23, 2020
i got everything yay
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Level 82
Mar 15, 2020
America has got probably the greatest natural beauty of any place on Earth, when taken all together. I've had the pleasure of visiting many of these places. The Grand Canyon and Yosemite probably made the biggest impression. Death Valley was cool, too.
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Level 55
Jan 7, 2021
Canada, India, and Australia are not far behind
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Level 75
Mar 15, 2020
Cascades? Pacific Cascades? Northwestern Cascades? Cascades National Park? So close.
+1
Level 75
Jan 15, 2021
This time I tried Cascades and Northern Cascades.
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Level 81
Mar 19, 2020
Great quiz. I've been to many of these parks, they are amazing. Reached level 74 on this quiz! Just counted, I've been to 22 out of 62 parks. I'd love to see them all, what a great bucket list.
+3
Level 33
May 4, 2020
I've been to out 18 national parks but i do not understand why gateway arch is a national park i think it is weird
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Level 41
May 17, 2020
I had no clue that the gateway arch was a national park.
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Level 66
Jun 15, 2020
I personally don't understand why this place merits the distinction of a "National Park." "National Monument" seems like a much better term.
+1
Level 66
Dec 28, 2020
I believe as of December 27, New River Gorge in West Virginia is a national park?
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Level 76
Jan 1, 2021
New river gorge in West Virginia should be added now
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Level 55
Jan 5, 2021
Glad to see that West Virginia made some good news
+1
Level 85
Dec 23, 2021
Don't get used to it.
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Level 51
Jan 5, 2021
Yeah!
+1
Level 79
Jan 7, 2021
Got 7/63 (I'm from Malaysia living in China). I've never been to any of these, which makes sense since I've never been to the U.S. before.
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Level 57
Jan 7, 2021
Done with 7 minutes to spare, though I have been to 51 of these and love the parks, so I know them very well.
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Level 55
Jan 7, 2021
49/63. Not bad for someone who has only been to two.

Though I think I should have got Sequoia and Saguaro

The most Obscure ones I got were New River Gorge and Katmai

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Level 55
Jan 7, 2021
How bout an Australian one. Only 685!
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Level 55
Feb 26, 2021
yay now 63/63
+1
Level 65
Aug 26, 2021
only got 3 but proud as a Taiwanese
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Level 35
Sep 18, 2021
I got all of them, but the territory national parks took me a second
+1
Level 58
Nov 17, 2021
Said St. Louis arch instead of Gateway, could that be accepted?
+2
Level 67
Aug 25, 2022
As a St Louis native, absolutely not
+1
Level 76
Feb 24, 2022
The coastal ones are hard to see in dark mode
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Level 56
Jun 21, 2022
Would be nice if American Samoa and Virgin Islands were on the map
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Level 39
Jul 1, 2022
I do not know if I am completely right, but I am 96% sure that the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is a national park in West Branch, IA. Please add it to the test or correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks!

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Level 61
Aug 14, 2022
National Historic Site, not National Park.

Basically the same thing, still within the National Park Service system, but not technically classified as a National Park.

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Level 56
Jan 18, 2023
How about Alaska and California share some of those national parks?
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Level 93
Aug 17, 2023
Coming back to say that it seems a bit confusing why American Samoa and the Virgin Islands are still not on the map somewhere.
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Level 21
Aug 23, 2023
100% in 5:01
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Level 93
Aug 31, 2023
It's been nearly three years, I think we are due for a new National Park. Personally I think the following are great candidates:

-Craters of the Moon (Idaho)

-Atchafalaya River Basin (Louisiana)

-Avi Kwa Ame/Spirit Mountain (Nevada)

-Delaware Water Gap (Pennsylvania/New Jersey)

Of the four states above, Nevada is the only one with a National Park thus far, and it's crazy to me that Idaho and Louisiana don't have any at all. If anyone has any other places they think would make great parks I'd love to hear your thoughts; this country has no lack of natural beauty!