Top 10 most-visited National Parks

According to the U.S. National Park Service, more than 282 million people visited America’s national parks in 2012, an increase of more than 3 million over 2011. It was the sixth highest annual visitation in the history of the National Park Service, despite nearly 2 million fewer visitors as a result of park closures caused by Hurricane Sandy. Here are the top 10 most visited National Parks in 2012.

1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park – 9,685,829 visitors.

2. Grand Canyon National Park – 4,421,352 visitors

3. Yosemite National Park – 3,853,404 visitors

4. Yellowstone National Park – 3,853,404 visitors

5. Rocky Mountain National Park – 3,229,617 visitors

6. Zion National Park – 2,973,607 visitors

7. Olympic National Park – 2,824,908 visitors

8. Grand Teton National Park – 2,705,256 visitors

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9. Acadia National Park – 2,431,052 visitors

10. Cuyahoga Valley National Park – 2,299,722 visitors