visit all the National Parks in the US

I’ve been to:
Arches – UT
Badlands – SD
Bryce Canyon – UT
Capitol Reef – UT
Grand Canyon – AZ
Grand Teton – WY
Great Sand Dunes – CO
Great Smokey Mountains – TN,NC
Haleakala – HI
Mammoth Cave – KY
Mesa Verde – CO
Rocky Mountain – CO
Yellowstone – WY
Zion – UT
(and plan on visiting Black Canyon of the Gunnison this summer)

I’ve visited 3 so far:
Smokies
Mammoth Cave
Yellowstone.

We drove past Badlands on our honeymoon, but technically we didn’t stop…and (sigh) I’m a stickler.

badlands
grand tetons
yellowstone
parts of the appalachian trail: VA, MD, ME, NH
grand canyon
mount ranier
olympia
presidio
shenandoah

also the petrified forest but personally would never go back to that one…

So far I’ve been to…

CA:
- Yosemite
- Death Valley
- Redwoods

AZ:
- Grand Canyon
- Petrified Forest

OR:
- Crater Lake

HI:
- Haleakala

I’ve also been to a variety of National Monuments and whatnot, but this is a National Parks goal, so…

So far, I’ve been to:

Acadia National Park
Adams National Historical Park
Arches National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce Canyon National Park
Canyonlands National Park
Dinosaur National Monument
Glacier National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Minute Man National Historical Park
Redwood National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Roosevelt Campobello National Park
Yellowstone National Park (my favorite!!!)
Yosemite National Park
Zion National Park

I’ve seen the:

Big Hole National Battlefield
Jefferson National Expansion Monument (St. Louis Arch)
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Timpanogos Cave National Monument

I’ve been on many places along the

Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Oregon National Historic Trail
Pony Express National Historic Trail

I’ve been to…

Badlands
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Carlsbad Caverns
Cuyahoga Valley
Grand Canyon
Mammoth Cave
Yosemite
Zion

I still have quite a ways to go…
I’ve also been to a lot of National Monuments, my favorite is Staircase Nat’l Monument or Escalante. It’s fantastic.

are a system of the true natural wonders of the United States. People throughout the world visit here to experience the beauty of these places.

Here’s the list I have of all of the U.S. National Parks (those designated as full national parks only, not other national park units):

Acadia, ME
American Samoa, AS
Arches, UT
Badlands, SD
Big Bend, TX
Biscayne, FL
Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO
Bryce Canyon, UT
Canyonlands, UT
Capitol Reef, UT
Carlsbad Caverns, NM
Channel Islands, CA
Congaree, SC
Crater Lake, OR
Cuyahoga Valley, OH
Death Valley, CA
Denali, AK
Dry Tortugas, FL
Everglades, FL
Gates of the Arctic, AK
Glacier, MT
Glacier Bay, AK
Grand Canyon, AZ
Grand Teton, WY
Great Basin, NV
Great Sand Dunes, CO
Great Smoky Mountains, TN & NC
Guadalupe Mountains, TX
Haleakala, HI
Hawaii Volcanoes, HI
Hot Springs, AR
Isle Royale, MI
Joshua Tree, CA
Katmai, AK
Kenai Fjords, AK
Kings Canyon, CA
Kobuk Valley, AK
Lake Clark, AK
Lassen Volcanic, CA
Mammoth Cave, KY
Mesa Verde, CO
Mount Rainier, WA
North Cascades, WA
Olympic, WA
Petrified Forest, AZ
Redwood, CA
Rocky Mountain, CO
Saguaro, AZ
Sequoia, CA
Shenandoah, VA
Theodore Roosevelt, ND
Virgin Islands, VI
Voyageurs, MN
Wind Cave, SD
Wrangell- St. Elias, AK
Yellowstone, WY MT & ID
Yosemite, CA
Zion, UT

Although I will follow up later with more detailed entries, so far I have visited 33 of the 58 National Parks, or 57% of them.

Not a bad start.

Since 2000 we have been traveling and trying to see the National Parks we can get to on a 2 week vacation. So far we have seen the follwing, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Yellowstone, Glacier (MT), Volcano (Hawaii no trailer),Shasta, Crater Lake and a bunch of National Monuments in between. So as you can see we are well on our way.

I started calling the trailer Little House on the Prarie because when my two beagles saw it I always called it Little House and they know its time to hit the road, just added the prarie part after the show.