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About National parks in the USA...

Looking for some fun, interesting, and quirky national park facts to impress your hiking homies or the family with on your next trip? Our post has you covered, serving up oodles of interesting info and insights about national parks as well as the odd astounding trinket of trivia from the parks’ surprisingly long and rich history. From the discovery of highly illicit “vegetation” in Sequoia National Park’s illicit to the nation’s deadliest trail, our list of national park facts has it all!

1. The combined size of all of the US’s national parks is a whopping 84 million acres, which is slightly larger than Finland (83m ac.) and only slightly smaller than Germany (88m ac).

2. There are a total of 423 national park sites in the National Park System, with parks in every state (except Delaware) and also the territories of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.

3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee and North Carolina) is the most visited national park in the US, attracting more than 12.5 million visitors in 2019 and 12.4 million in 2020.

4. The oldest national park in the US is Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana), which was founded in 1872.

5. The newest national park in the US is the aptly named New River Gorge National Park (West Virginia), which was founded on December 27th, 2020.

6. The biggest national park in the US is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, which encompasses a whopping 13.2 million acres.

7. Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas, which measures a mere 5,500 acres, is the smallest national park.

8. The highest point in the national parks is the summit of Denali, in Denali National Park, at 20,310 feet.

9. Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, California lies at 282 feet below sea level, which is the lowest point in the western hemisphere.

10. The states with the most national parks are California and Alaska, which have 8 apiece.

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