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Name as many US national parks as you can.
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Covers the 63 designated US national parks. National monuments, historic sites and other NPS units are intentionally excluded.
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Sixty-three parks.
One memory.
No pins, outlines or multiple-choice clues. Retrieve each designated national park by name and watch your field notebook fill with stamps.
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Forgiving answers
Short names, punctuation and accents handled
Three paces
30 seconds, one minute or 90 seconds
All 63 parks
The complete current designated set
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campfire challenge.
Take turns naming a park and see how long the group can keep going. The short clock keeps every hand-off lively.
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- 01Choose the Grand Tour
- 02Type one park at a time
- 03Watch each region fill
- 04Reveal the forgotten names
How to remember more parks.
A list of 63 names feels enormous. A handful of journeys, landscapes and state clusters feels surprisingly manageable.
01Start with the anchor parks
Write down the names you can see instantly—Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion and the Grand Canyon. Early momentum makes the harder names easier to retrieve.
02Travel state by state
Mentally move along the map. California has nine, Alaska has eight and Utah’s Mighty 5 form useful clusters rather than 22 unrelated answers.
03Sort by landscape
Think in groups: desert and canyon parks, volcanic parks, caves, islands, forests and mountain ranges. One landscape often unlocks the next name.
04Save the long names for last
The quiz accepts useful short forms, including Black Canyon, Smokies and Wrangell St Elias. You do not need to type “National Park and Preserve.”
The complete list of all 63 US national parks.
Finished your round? Reveal the official answer list by region. The names below follow the current National Park Service designations.
West42 parks
- National Park of American Samoa
- Arches National Park
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Channel Islands National Park
- Crater Lake National Park
- Death Valley National Park
- Denali National Park
- Gates of the Arctic National Park
- Glacier National Park
- Glacier Bay National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Grand Teton National Park
- Great Basin National Park
- Great Sand Dunes National Park
- Haleakalā National Park
- Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Katmai National Park
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Lake Clark National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- North Cascades National Park
- Olympic National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Pinnacles National Park
- Redwood National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Saguaro National Park
- Sequoia National Park
- White Sands National Park
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
- Yosemite National Park
- Zion National Park
Midwest8 parks
- Badlands National Park
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Isle Royale National Park
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Voyageurs National Park
- Wind Cave National Park
South12 parks
- Big Bend National Park
- Biscayne National Park
- Congaree National Park
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Everglades National Park
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Hot Springs National Park
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
- Shenandoah National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
Northeast1 park
- Acadia National Park
Looking for locations rather than answers? Use the interactive National Parks Map to explore and track every park.
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The quiz ends when the remembering does. The map takes over from there: find each park, see where it sits and mark the journeys you have actually made.
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The rules, scope and park set explained.
How many US national parks are in the quiz?
The quiz covers all 63 places currently designated as national parks by the National Park Service. It does not include every unit in the wider National Park System, such as national monuments, historic sites or national seashores.
How do you play the US National Parks Quiz?
Choose a 30-second sprint, a one-minute challenge or a 90-second round. Type one park name at a time and press Enter. Every recognised answer becomes a park stamp, and your score and regional progress update instantly.
Do I have to type “National Park” after every answer?
No. Type the memorable part of the name, such as Yosemite, Acadia or Great Smoky Mountains. The quiz also ignores capitalisation, punctuation and accents and accepts common shortened forms for longer names.
Does the quiz include national monuments and historic sites?
No. It is deliberately limited to the 63 designated national parks. Places such as Devils Tower National Monument and Gettysburg National Military Park are important National Park Service sites, but they are not answers in this game.
What is the newest US national park?
New River Gorge in West Virginia is the newest designated national park. It was redesignated as New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in December 2020.
Which state has the most national parks?
California has nine designated national parks, more than any other state. Alaska follows with eight, while Utah has five—the group commonly known as the Mighty 5.
Can I practise national parks by region?
Yes. The default Grand Tour includes all 63 parks, while West, Midwest, South and Northeast practice modes create smaller regional rounds using the same broad regions as TripMemo’s parks tracker.
Is this a multiple-choice national parks quiz?
No. It is a typed recall challenge. There are no answer choices, so the score reflects the park names you can retrieve from memory rather than names you simply recognise.
Will the quiz show the parks I missed?
Yes. When the round ends, open the missed-parks review to see the official names you did not enter. The separate National Parks Map is the place to browse locations and track the parks you have visited.
Is the US National Parks Quiz free?
Yes. It is free to play in your browser, works on phones, tablets and computers, and does not require an account.
Is this the same as the National Parks Map?
No. This page is a memory game: its job is to test how many park names you can recall. The National Parks Map is a separate tool for exploring park locations and tracking visits.
Created and reviewed by the TripMemo Team. Park count and designations checked against the official National Park Service list.
