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National Park Week woman hiker overlooking rocky mountain

Celebrate National Park Week from April 20 – 28th

Did you know the largest national park is 13.2-million acres? Wrangell St. Elias is a vast national park that rises from the ocean all the way up to 18,008 ft. It’s the same size as Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park and Switzerland combined! An estimated 331 million people visited national parks like this one in 2017.
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Top 10 Most Visited National Parks & National Park Week

More than 282 million people visited America’s national parks in 2012, an increase of more than 3 million over 2011. It was the sixth highest annual visitation in the history of the National Park Service, despite nearly 2 million fewer visitors as a result of park closures caused by Hurricane Sandy. Since 1916, the National
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