I Visited 18 National Parks Last Year. Here's All of Them 

New River Gorge feels like the first park promotion in 20 years that actually feels worthy of the "big P" Park designation. I'd love to get out there someday!

Quite a lot!! Adding Kenai Fjords to my bucket list for sure.

Wow, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing your travels, it brings back some wonderful memories of my own travels.

Thanks for highlighting some of the smaller and lesser know national park sites on your channel! Last year I visited Bandalier National Monument and Jewel Cave National Monument and it really reminded me to not sleep on the National Monuments. I had a great time at both. I'm not sure what your 2024 plans have in store, but I'd love to see you research and/or visit some of the Midwest National Park sites! Sleeping Bear Dunes, Pictured Rocks, Apostle Islands -- all great places. And Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail was just designated as a National Scenic Trail. Great win for my home state! 😊

Looks like a good year! It was nice seeing friends in the video!

So many areas I never saw, but it's so nice that you have.. and shared them! So much beauty and history. Cheers, Rik Spector

Thanks for all the awesome content and amazing videos!!!

Thanks! for the great review of those parks. It gave me some ideas of where to visit next year.

I love the historical and military parks the best, but I enjoyed seeing other parks vicariously through your video. Now I have more ideas for places to visit! :) I'd definitely recommend visiting Stones River National Battlefield (Murfreesboro, TN). They frequently have great living history programs about different aspects of the battle and the soldiers. Great place to visit and it's definitely my favorite national park.

Thanks for the summary. I only discovered your website later on in the year and have been a dedicated follower since. Look forward to your posts and this summary just added to my enjoyment.

what a great motivational video!

Nice. In 2016 I did 16 parks.

Thank you so much. I love seeing the parks through you. I'm so proud of you. I look forward to 2024. Take care, cam.

Great video and summary. Will be in Kenai ourselves in July, based largely on your video - which will make #58 of the 63 NP’s. Will look you up in October for our return trip to Congaree!

I've been to numerous camping/cabin camping events at Catoctin Mountain Park over the years. Our joke has always been don't wander too far in a particular direction or you may run into the Secret Service or teenagers with machine guns (aka United States Marines).

When I retired we discovered the National Park Passbook program and used our America the Beautiful Pass to visit many parks and sites. We have visited all 50 states and 112+ National Parks, Battlefields, Monuments, Historical sites, etc. The Passbook program got us looking for the lesser known sites. As a bonus, the USBLM, USFS, USFWS many have passbook stamps too. Also use paper maps. Google maps or other phone maps apps don't show how close some of these places are to an interstate and you'll drive right by not knowing it only an hour detour to visit and get back onto the highway.

Didn't know you could walk under the bridge in New River Gorge. Hoping to hit Crater Lake, Lassen, Red Wood, and Pinnacles this year

I love your enthusiasm of the nature's beauty and your appreciation of learning more about the world. May I suggest that when you are satisfied with all the parks of US, you might want to consider an epic journey to Antarctica. After visiting Alaska I too was captivated by ice. After that it caused me to wonder what the ice in Antarctica was like. And it was nothing less than a religious experience. Nothing like Alaska, which is gorgeous, but the feeling of being in Antarctica give me a whole new appreciation of life. .

Definitely some great spots! Did you see any gators at the Barataria Preserve at Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve?

I knocked out 12. 1. Cuyahoga 2. Great smoky mountains 3. Indiana dunes 4. Badlands 5. Grand teton 6. Yellowstone 7. Olympic 8. Mt. Rainier 9. North cascades 10. Theadore Roosevelt 11. Voyagers 12. Mammoth cave Honerable mention to the bankhead national forest and the white mountains national forest

Yo- really amazing traveler,ciao! National! ;)

Wow, I didn't get to any National or State Parks last year. Sounds like I need to fix that

I visited 7 national parks in 2023 and 3 International Dark Skies areas.So far 3 in 2024.

Fantastic video! My wife, our toddler and I just got our national parks passport at the end of August. We were on a trip to the Outer Banks and were able to get Cape Hatteras and the wright brothers memorial stamps. Since then we've been to 16 more park sites. Like you said in the video, we've been to a few sites that we would never have thought to go to but they've become some of our favorite places. New Castle, DE (part of first state national historic Park) is a town we never thought we would visit but ended up falling in love with the historical atmosphere. We live in between Hopewell furnace National historic site and Valley forge, so if you've never visited either of them I would highly recommend them. Both are very picturesque and are great if you're interested in colonial/revolutionary War history.

This was by far my craziest year for travel and visiting national parks. I visited the park I'm closest to Great Smokey mountains 3 times. In February I visited Cumberland Island national seashore. In April I checked my new favorite GA park cloudland canyon. June I went to Everglades, Biscayne, and Luchayan National park in the Bahamas. Then in June I went to Glacier and Waterton and also Banff, Kootenay, Jasper, and Yoho. In September I did a cross country road trip where I saw Petrified forest, Montizumas Castle NM, and Joshua Tree. In November I went to the eastern sierras. Did not visit, but could see parts of Kings Canyon and Death Valley. Finally in December we drove west to east and saw Valley of Fire State park in Nevada, The Hoover Dam NM, Bryce canyon (a repeat), Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Colorado NM (another repeat), Rocky Mountain, Gateway arch, and land between the lakes NRA. 2023 was amazing and I hope I can make 2024 just as great. Started the year off visiting Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey in Mexico and it was amazing.

You should make a video about the dabate to remove wild horses from theadore Roosevelt NP

Do you think you could touch on the Chiricahua site? I saw a news story saying they're trying to change its designation from National Monument to National Park.

The evidence of the last 30 years is clear. Park status and NPS itself have become the greatest threats to wild places and authentic communities. The camp followers, "eco-preneuers," buckets listers, digital nomads, corporate hustlers, BNB investors, trust-funders and petite bourgeoisie instantly overwhelm, exploit and diminish the places and people. Every small town near a park turns into a real estate feeding frenzy for the 1%. The working class of the interior West has been run out of the towns they built. Other agencies have proven themselves superior to NPS in preservation and conservation.The graft and corruption inside NPS in the awarding of concessions and contracts, even to firms with a history of organized crime convictions, is contemptible. NPS was born by elitists and still greatly serves them, so now they use the "pricing function" to exploit the overcrowding they created. Morale among the lower NPS ranks is abysmal. Teton, Grand and Coconino counties tell the sad tale. NPS doesn't give a rat's ass about our communities.

Have you hears about the fossilized eggs that were found in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument? This is a great example of why we keep investing in preservation & exploration. Had this area not been part of the national system we ( the public ) might have missed out on this amazing discovery.

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