National Parks Checklist and Visited Map

Pick what a tap does: Been there, Want to go, or Erase. Then tap a park's pin. Been there puts a big check-mark stamp on it and the counter goes up. Want to go gives the pin a gold outline, so your list and your record sit on the same map.

On a phone the pins are small at full width, so tap the area you want first (or use the Zoom to row) and the map zooms in with the park names showing. Utah's five parks and the California cluster need that. You can also tap Been or Want next to any park in the checklist under the map, or search for it. Undo takes back the last tap, Start over clears everything after a confirmation, and on a keyboard Tab moves between pins and Enter marks one.

The counter above the map keeps score: how many of the 64 national parks you've stamped, what share of the list that is, and how many are still on your Want to go list. Most people land somewhere between five and fifteen on the first pass, then remember one more from a childhood road trip.

If you'd rather count from a list, the checklist under the map has all 64 with the same two switches. Sort it by name, state or the year each became a national park, filter it by region, or show only the ones you've stamped.

Sixty-four, as of October 20, 2026. That is the day Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona became Chiricahua National Park, the first new one since New River Gorge in West Virginia in December 2020. Before Chiricahua there were 63, which is why most printed checklists, posters and older articles still say 63. If you learned the number as 59 or 61, you learned it before Gateway Arch (2018), Indiana Dunes (2019), White Sands (2019) and New River Gorge (2020) were redesignated.

The National Park Service runs far more than that. Its system has 434 units: national monuments, seashores, lakeshores, historic sites, battlefields, recreation areas, parkways and more. Only the 64 with "National Park" as their formal designation are on this map. Sequoia and Kings Canyon are managed together but are two parks, so they get two pins.

California has the most national parks with nine, Alaska has eight and Utah has five. Arizona moved to four with Chiricahua, level with Colorado. Three parks cross state lines: Yellowstone (Wyoming, Montana and Idaho), Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee and North Carolina) and Death Valley (California and Nevada), and the National Park Service lists Gateway Arch in both Missouri and Illinois. Two more sit in territories: the National Park of American Samoa and Virgin Islands National Park on St. John. They're in the small boxes under the map.

That leaves 19 states with no national park at all: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. Most of them have national monuments, seashores or historic sites instead. The table further down lists every park with its state and year.

Nobody polices this, so pick a rule and stick to it. The common one: you count a park once you've set foot inside its boundary, on purpose. A hike, a scenic drive with a stop, a night in the campground or a visit to the visitor center all count. Seeing the Tetons from the highway, flying over the Grand Canyon or driving straight through Great Smoky Mountains on US-441 without stopping is where people disagree. Some count it, some don't.

Passport stampers have an easy test: did you get the cancellation stamp? A few parks make the question harder. Dry Tortugas is a boat or seaplane ride from Key West, Channel Islands is a ferry, Gates of the Arctic has no roads, and the National Park of American Samoa is a long way from everywhere. Whatever your rule, use the same one for every park or the number won't mean much next to a friend's.

Passport To Your National Parks is the little blue book that America's National Parks, the nonprofit park-store partner, has sold since 1986. Every visitor center has a free ink cancellation stamp with the park's name and the date, and collectors fill pages with them. This page is the digital version of the same habit: the stamp on the map, the date on the printed checklist. It doesn't replace the book, and it doesn't track the 434 smaller sites the book also covers. If you keep a Passport, the Want to go list is a good place to plan the next page.

Start with the parks you can reach in a long weekend and give them the gold Want to go outline. Then look at the gaps on the map. The Southwest alone has Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches and Grand Canyon within a loop drive. Families often keep two maps, one for the trips taken together and one for everything before. Road-trippers use the zoom regions as a planning view. If you're going for all 64, the Alaska eight and the two island parks are the ones to plan years ahead.

Each park's details are one tap away: the state, the year it became a national park, one line on what it's known for and a link to its official page on nps.gov for hours, fees and reservations.

Counting states as well? The States I've Been To map works the same way.

Checklist PDF gives you the 64 parks grouped by state on one letter-size page, each with a checkbox and a date line, no email required. Print does the same from your browser and pre-ticks the parks you've already stamped. Copy link gives you a link that reopens this exact map on any device; on a phone, Share opens your share sheet with a picture attached. The square picture suits Instagram and Facebook, the tall one Stories, Reels and TikTok, both with your count, the stamped map and our name on them.

Your map is also saved in this browser, so it's here when you come back. There's no account and nothing to install.

This page uses the map from the Landmass USA scratch-off map: black foil over the states' colors, 24 by 17 inches, with the national parks and each state's highest peak drawn in. It shows 61 of the 64 parks. The print was made before Chiricahua became a national park, and it has no insets for American Samoa or the Virgin Islands. You scratch a state off with a coin after the trip, and the parks are right there in it.

If you'd rather tick boxes on paper, the printed checklist poster has a box for each park. It lists 63 parks; it was made before Chiricahua joined the list in October 2026.