Kid Outdoors--Most-Visited Sites in the U.S. National Park System

Place	Visitors
1. Blue Ridge Parkway	17 415 519
2. Golden Gate National Recreation Area	14 695 771
3. Lake Mead National Recreation Area	9 838 702
4. Great Smoky Mountains National Park	9 080 420
5. George Washington Memorial National Parkway	6 546 803
6. Gateway National Recreation Area	6 064 254
7. Natchez Trace National Parkway	5 849 061
8. National Capital Parks	5 513 009
9. Cape Cod National Seashore	5 141 039
10. Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area	4 726 251
11. Grand Canyon National Park	4 557 645
12. Gulf Islands National Seashore	4 520 356
13. Statue of Liberty National Monument	4 244 725
14. Yosemite National Park	3 958 406
15. Castle Clinton National Monument	3 672 620
16. Olympic National Park	3 658 615
17. San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park	3 631 994
18. Chattahoochee River National Recreation Park	3 475 002

	There are differences between National Parks, National Recreation Areas, National Seashores and the other types of places that make up the U.S. National Park System.
For example, sometimes it is possible to hunt in a National Monument or in a National Recreation Area-- but you can never hunt in a National Park.
		Another example: only a place along the beach can be called a National Seashore.
And, of course, you would only give the name National Parkway to a road-- and never to a mountain!

Most-Visited Sites in the U.S. National Park System (1995)
	There were recreational visits in 1995 to the places that make up the U.S. National Park System--from cadia National Park in Maine to ion National Park in Utah, and everything in between. But some places are busier than others, such as...