National Park System units in Colorado
Colorado has 14 National Park System units. The list below also includes 4 places the Park Service does not count as units of their own. Each one has its own page here with hours, current alerts, campgrounds and what there is to do.
Colorado in figures
- National Park System units
- 14
- Free to enter
- 5
- Recreation visits in 2025
- 7,033,360
- Busiest unit, 4,171,431 visits
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Campgrounds
- 30
A unit that reaches into another state counts in full here and in each other state it touches.
Yucca House National Monument reports no 2025 count, so the visit total leaves it out.
Free to enter Charges an entrance feePoints are the Park Service reference point for each unit, not a boundary.
Parks near a city
Visits by year
Rocky Mountain National ParkCurecanti National Recreation AreaColorado National MonumentMesa Verde National ParkGreat Sand Dunes National Park & PreserveDinosaur National MonumentBlack Canyon Of The Gunnison National ParkFlorissant Fossil Beds National MonumentHovenweep National MonumentAmache National Historic SiteBent's Old Fort National Historic SiteSand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Fees, hours, alerts, campgrounds and activities are from the NPS API. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.