National parks saw a record-breaking 331.8 million visitors in the last year, a 2% increase from the previous year. Great Smoky Mountains National Park remains the most visited national park ...

The National Park Service just released visitation data for 2024, reporting a record-breaking number of visitors just as federal staffing cuts, funding freezes and the proposed dismantling of ...

Sovereign states typically designate their own national parks and are responsible for their general upkeep. Depending on the country and park, visitors from the general public may be charged an ...

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Traditionally, individual parks and the National Park Service have touted how successful the previous year was. That has been especially true since a spike in attendance during the COVID pandemic.

America’s national parks just had their busiest year ever—right as the National Park Service (NPS) struggles with major staffing cuts. In 2024, a record-breaking 332 million visitors explored ...

The NPS has reached a new overall milestone, with almost 331.9 million recreation visits logged at all of its 433 units, which include famous national parks such as Yellowstone but also places ...

By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington America’s national parks saw more than 331 million visits last year, a record. But the Trump administration does not want to call attention to those ...

Indigenous people were forcibly removed from their homelands – in some cases, to create national parks - yet individuals and Tribal communities maintain strong connections to the lands that have ...

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be ...