Travel Awaits: 10 Most Visited National Parks In 2020

Above, as one might expect, Yellowstone National Park made the list. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Thanks to you-know-what, visitation numbers for the U.S. national parks were down last year from 2019. That said, they still had a lot of people showing up.

Travel Awaits has posed a list of the ten most visited national parks in 2020. There's really no surprises on which parks are on the list as they consistently are on these lists.

They begin with:

According to numbers just released by the National Park Service (NPS), 237 million visitors went to America’s national parks in 2020. It’s actually 28 percent lower than 2019 because parks were closed part of last year. That said, let’s face it: 237 million people is still a lot of visitors.

“This past year has reminded us how important national parks and public lands are to overall well being,” National Park Service Deputy Director Shawn Benge said in a statement. “Throughout the country, national parks provided close-to-home opportunities for people to spend much needed time outdoors for their physical and psychological health.”

Let’s take a closer look at the most-visited national parks last year. In the format David Letterman used for his Top 10 lists, we’ll count down to the most visited national park.

To see the list, go here.