The most and least visited parks

The busiest park sees more visitors in a weekend than the quietest sees in a decade. The bottom of this list is where the solitude lives.

The Park Service counts recreation visits for the 387 units enrolled in its statistics program, which is fewer than the 433 units in the system, so the sum of this table is not the official system-wide total. A tiny count is not always a hidden gem. Some units were closed for renovation all year, some sit on active military bases, and some have no road access. Check the park page before reading solitude into a number.