National Parks I Have Been To, How About You?

[Treasure_Hunter]

I love the mountains, especially the ones west of Mississippi river. I spent many vacations camping out west over my life, over 30 weeks. I decided to post list of all the National Parks I have either visited and or camped in. Feel free to copy my list and make your own....

NATIONAL PARKS


Acadia National Park: Maine


American Samoa National Park: American Samoa


Arches National Park: Utah (Camped)



Badlands National Park: South Dakota (Visited)




Big Bend National Park: Texas


Biscayne National Park: Florida (Visited)




Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park: Colorado (Camped)



Bryce Canyon National Park: Utah (Camped)



Canyonlands National Park: Utah (Camped)



Capitol Reef National Park: Utah (Camped)




Carlsbad Caverns National Park: New Mexico


Channel Islands National Park: California


Congaree National Park: South Carolina


Crater Lake National Park: Oregon (Camped)



Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Ohio


Death Valley National Park: California, Nevada (Visited)



Denali National Park: Alaska


Dry Tortugas National Park: Florida


Everglades National Park: Florida (Camped)



Gates of the Arctic National Park: Alaska



Gateway Arch National Park: Missouri (Visited)



Glacier Bay National Park: Alaska


Glacier National Park: Montana (Camped)




Grand Canyon National Park: Arizona (Camped)


Grand Teton National Park: Wyoming (Camped)



Great Basin National Park: Nevada (Camped)


Great Sand Dunes National Park: Colorado (Visited)


Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Tennessee, North Carolina (Camped)


Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Texas


Haleakalā National Park: Hawaii


Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park: Hawaii


Hot Springs National Park: Arkansas


Indiana Dunes National Park: Indiana


Isle Royale National Park: Michigan


Joshua Tree National Park: California (Visited)



Katmai National Park: Alaska


Kenai Fjords National Park: Alaska


Kings Canyon National Park: California (Camped)



Kobuk Valley National Park: Alaska


Lake Clark National Park: Alaska


Lassen Volcanic National Park: California (Camped)




Mammoth Cave National Park: Kentucky


Mesa Verde National Park: Colorado (Camped)




Mount Rainier National Park: Washington (Camped)



North Cascades National Park: Washington (Camped)



Olympic National Park: Washington (Camped)



Petrified Forest National Park: Arizona (Visited)



Pinnacles National Park: California (Visited)




Redwood National Park: California (Camped)



Rocky Mountain National Park: Colorado (Camped)



Saguaro National Park: Arizona (Visited)



Sequoia National Park: California (Camped)



Shenandoah National Park: Virginia (Visited)




Smokey Mountain National Park (Camped)




Theodore Roosevelt National Park: North Dakota (Visited)




Virgin Islands National Park: United States Virgin Islands


Voyageurs National Park: Minnesota (Visited)



White Sands National Park: New Mexico (Visited)




Wind Cave National Park: South Dakota


Wrangell–St. Elias National Park: Alaska


Yellowstone National Park: Wyoming, Montana, Idaho (Camped - Been here over 7 times)




Non National Park Scenic Sites I have visited.

Monument Valley

When I was there I could almost see John Wayne leading the Calvary, expecting Apaches to come over a rise at any time.


Royal Gorge Bridge Colorado (Camped)

 

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[worldtalker]

I lived on Cosby Tennessee,the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was my front yard the 6 years I lived there,Dry Tortugas was nice snorkeling,all of Key West was.

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[DizzyDigger]

You are a well traveled person!

I see you camped in the North Cascades National Park. You
could have saved your money and camped on the river right
in my backyard..

 

[ARC]

Th... that is an impressive list.

 

[aa battery]

Got busted for MDING in a national park. Didnt know it was a no no.

 

[Duckshot]

That's quite a list Treasure Hunter.

I've only been to Glacier, Arches and Canyon, Badlands, and T. Roosevelt, but I am much, much younger than you.

I might cross The River and drive out to the northwest coast next summer, in which case it is mandatory that I revisit Glacier. Glacier is awesome. Last time I was there in July to fish MacDonald Lake. Took the Red Bus White Motorcoach to the top where people were downhill sking and snowboarding- in July.

ETA- Oh, and Great Smokey. Didn't really stop at that one. Nice drive and it saves a heck of a lot of time to go around.

 

[ToddsPoint]

You haven't been to the only one I've been to...Smoky Mtn. Park. Gary

 

[Fat]

That is big list I’ve been to several the big names. Scottsbluff monument on the Oregon trail is a neat spot.
When I was young you could use your migratory waterfowl stamp for entry pass, your Duck stamp. I think it’s way too expensive to drive across Yellowstone, they hardly remove anything that falls on road like a tree, they don’t mow. $35 to drive threw and eat lunch has become take a different route around and look at the trees right beside that road. Bison hate selfies anyways.

 

[RGINN]

Visiting and observing Arches during the height of tourist season killed any desire I might have had to ever visit another one, and God forbid camp in one. But I encourage everyone to enjoy their National Parks, as that leaves the backcountry more open for me.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

You haven't been to the only one I've been to...Smoky Mtn. Park. Gary

Not sure how it was left off the list, camped twice in Smokey Mountain NP, once in the winter 1970, once in the summer 1972.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Visiting and observing Arches during the height of tourist season killed any desire I might have had to ever visit another one, and God forbid camp in one. But I encourage everyone to enjoy their National Parks, as that leaves the backcountry more open for me.

Many of my camping trips were in the fall and winter, no crowds... Camped a lot in Utah, it is my favorite state.

On the 7 week vacation I took, roommate and I drove into Yellowstone NP on Labor day, we were the only vehicle entering the South entrance to the park, all the other vehicles were leaving. On one trip we entered Yosemite NP in the early spring from the west, on the first day the highway through the park was opened to the east side, massive snow drifts. Another winter trip we drove from Grand Junction to Durango on Hwy 550 in January with drifts 20 foot high.

We did multiple winter camping trips to the South West, use to do a lot of winter camping in a van, had Coleman heater with us and left the windows open about 6 inches for fresh air. We turned it off when we went to sleep and fired it up in the morning. Best part of winter camping is you don't have to worry about keeping your food cold....LOL

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

That is big list I’ve been to several the big names. Scottsbluff monument on the Oregon trail is a neat spot.
When I was young you could use your migratory waterfowl stamp for entry pass, your Duck stamp. I think it’s way too expensive to drive across Yellowstone, they hardly remove anything that falls on road like a tree, they don’t mow. $35 to drive threw and eat lunch has become take a different route around and look at the trees right beside that road. Bison hate selfies anyways.

It wasn't as expensive then as now, also we had a season pass, it was only $10.00 then. Now I have a senior lifetime pass, $80.00 for lifetime pass, gets you in all National parks and all federal recreation areas. A regular yearly pass that includes all National Parks federal recreation area is $80, if you visit 3 parks in a year it has paid for itself. Pass gets you and everyone in the vehicle in.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Decided to add some pictures...

 

[billb]

Decided to add some pictures...

TH great great post thanks for sharing
Would be a great TV show where a narrator could talk and share highlights of the parks or have a dvd made.
I would purchase one

 

[CoinsAndThings]

Impressive list. Living out west all my life I've visited many of the National Parks in California, Utah, Wyoming and Oregon.

Arizona: The Grand Canyon

California: Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park (I worked at a resort near there for two summers when I was in college). Death Valley, The Redwoods, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Muir Woods, Yosemite. I camped at all of these except for Death Valley.

Utah: Golden Spike National Park (visited), Capitol Reef (visited), Zions (camped), Bryce Canyon (visited). Utah also has several State parks that I've visited and camped in. Including Dead Horse and Goblin Valley. I would recommend Goblin Valley and Dead Horse to anyone visiting Utah. Not nearly as crowded as the big name National Parks here.

Wyoming: Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone. We camped at both

Oregon: Crater Lake (visited)

Washington: Olympic National Park (visited)

Montana: Glacier National Park (camped)

Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park. As a small boy I lived in a small mountain town called Bailey south of there.

Back east I drove through Shenandoah on a business trip. It was beautiful, but I didn't have time to really check things out..

And as a graduation present from high school my Dad and Mom took my brother and I on a month long camping trip through Canada. We went up through Glacier National Park to Lake Louise and then headed west at a very leisurely pace through British Columbia and ending on Vancouver Island. Beautiful country. My Dad was a serious outdoors man all his life and this trip and others instilled in me a love of the outdoors. The further from civilization the better



Unfortunately a number of these parks I visited when I was quite a bit younger than I am now. Now a days it's mostly Utah parks and byways.