Behind the Numbers: America's Most Visited National Parks

Let's dive into 2023's national park visitation stats.

Happy Tuesday everyone! Will here, recovering from the flu.

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been diving into the numbers behind last year’s national park visitation stats and there are some pretty interesting tidbits here. For those interested, this information comes from our recent article with a full breakdown: The Most Visited US National Parks (2024 Update)

In 2023, overall visitation to national park sites across America increased by 13,512,648 million visitors from 2022. That is a 4.3% increase year-to-year.

A total of 325,498,646 people visited a National Park Service property. That includes all monuments, national recreation areas, and more. Of those visitors, 92,390,204 visited designated National Parks from Acadia to Zion. To put it more simply, that's 325.5 million visitors at all the NPS sites and 92.3 million visitors at National Parks.

Over the past five years, 2023 saw the second-highest number of recreation visits, just 6% lower than 2019. However, 2023 was 4.3% higher…