Each year, the National Park Service tracks the total number of visits made to each of the parks. Some of the least visited parks take more planning and travel to reach, but the lack of crowds at these national treasures is worth it. As we continue social distancing and wait for international travel to make its way back, domestic destinations make the most sense.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park – Texas
Guadalupe Mountains National Park protects the world’s most extensive Permian fossil reef, the four highest peaks in Texas, an environmentally diverse collection of flora and fauna, and the stories of lives shaped through conflict, cooperation and survival.
Dry Tortugas National Park – Florida
Almost 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. This 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands. Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life, and the vast assortment of bird life that frequents the area.
Dream Now, Travel Later. We’re here to help you in the planning process when you’re ready.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve – Alaska
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a land of stunning beauty. Volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes. Here, too, local people and culture still depend on the land and water. Lake Clark preserves the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina people, an intact ecosystem at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.Venture into the park to become part of the wilderness.
Dry Tortugas National Park – Florida
Almost 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. This 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands. Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life, and the vast assortment of bird life that frequents the area.
Dream Now, Travel Later. We’re here to help you in the planning process when you’re ready.
Katmai National Park and Preserve – Alaska
A landscape is alive underneath our feet, filled with creatures that remind us what it is to be wild.Katmai was established in 1918 to protect the volcanically devastated region surrounding Novarupta and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve also protects 9,000 years of human history and important habitat for salmon and thousands of brown bears.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve – Alaska
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a land of stunning beauty. Volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes. Here, too, local people and culture still depend on the land and water. Lake Clark preserves the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina people, an intact ecosystem at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.Venture into the park to become part of the wilderness.
Dry Tortugas National Park – Florida
Almost 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. This 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands. Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life, and the vast assortment of bird life that frequents the area.
Dream Now, Travel Later. We’re here to help you in the planning process when you’re ready.
Pinnacles National Park – California
Some 23 million years ago multiple volcanoes erupted, flowed, and slid to form what would become Pinnacles National Park. What remains is a unique landscape. Travelers journey through chaparral, oak woodlands, and canyon bottoms. Hikers enter rare talus caves and emerge to towering rock spires teeming with life: prairie and peregrine falcons, golden eagles, and the inspiring California condor.
Katmai National Park and Preserve – Alaska
A landscape is alive underneath our feet, filled with creatures that remind us what it is to be wild.Katmai was established in 1918 to protect the volcanically devastated region surrounding Novarupta and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve also protects 9,000 years of human history and important habitat for salmon and thousands of brown bears.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve – Alaska
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a land of stunning beauty. Volcanoes steam, salmon run, bears forage, and craggy mountains reflect in shimmering turquoise lakes. Here, too, local people and culture still depend on the land and water. Lake Clark preserves the ancestral homelands of the Dena’ina people, an intact ecosystem at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.Venture into the park to become part of the wilderness.
Dry Tortugas National Park – Florida
Almost 70 miles (113 km) west of Key West lies the remote Dry Tortugas National Park. This 100-square mile park is mostly open water with seven small islands. Accessible only by boat or seaplane, the park is known the world over as the home of magnificent Fort Jefferson, picturesque blue waters, superlative coral reefs and marine life, and the vast assortment of bird life that frequents the area.
Dream Now, Travel Later. We’re here to help you in the planning process when you’re ready.
When I lived in El Paso,TX, we enjoyed the couple hour drive to Guadalupe NP! Often seeing no other visitors, we would feel as though we had the park to ourselves. McKittrick Canyon in the Fall is a beautiful hike, and a respite from the desert heat in summer. And El Captain, rises above the desert landscape, stern and peaceful, like a lion watching over her territory.