Lifetime National Parks/Sites/Monuments, etc.

[AustinBoston]

How many National parks, seashores, recreation areas, forests, monuments, historic sites, etc. have you visited in your lifetime?

This is meant to be an exhaustive response, so places visited while not camping or pop-upping, places visited in your childhood, and places in your own backyard count.

If it is administered by the National Park Service or the National Forest Service, it counts.

Austin

[tlhdoc]

A whole bunch.  I will have to get out National Park Passport books out and start counting, then remember which ones we visited before we had the books.

[dee106]

a lot of lighthouses! which is the nfs, all kinds of war monuments, historic sites, etc

[vjm1639]

That's a tough one....after looking at the NPS and NFS websites I found that many were there that i really never even thought about in that category.  I've lived in so many places over the years and visited so many things. I really was amazed at how much there was.    Goodness, just here in the DC/Northern Virginia area I could count a bundle.   Not counting living in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Hawaii, New Jersey, and all the places visited in between.  :>  Very interesting Poll AB.....

[tlhdoc]

I am listing the parks managed by the NPS, that I have been to, in alphabetical order.
 
Acadia National Park, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Antietam National Battlefield, Antietam National Cemetery, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Assateague Island National Seashore, Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Big Cypress National Preserve, Biscayne National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Booker T Washington National Monument, Cabrillo National Monument, Canaveral National Seashore,
Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Castle Clinton National Monument, Catoctin Mountain Park, Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, Congaree National Park, Constitution Gardens, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Death Valley National Park, Delaware National Scenic River, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Dry Tortugas National Park, Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Edison National Historic Site, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Ellis Island National Monument, Everglades National Park, Flight 93 National Memorial, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Fort Sumter National Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Friendship Hill National Historic Site, Gateway National Recreation Area, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg National Military Park, Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
 
I think there are 57 in this post.

[tlhdoc]

Part 2 of the parks I have visited.
 
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Independence National Historical Park, James A Garfield National Historic Site, Johnstown Flood National Memorial, Joshua Tree National Park, Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, Kings Canyon National Park, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Lincoln Memorial, Maggie L Walker National Historic Site, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, National Mall, National World War II Memorial, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site, Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial, Petersburg National Battlefield, Petrified Forest National Park, President's Park (White House) , Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rock Creek Park, Roosevelt Campobello International Park, Saguaro National Park, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Shenandoah National Park, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Statue Of Liberty National Monument, Steamtown National Historic Site, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument,Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, Theodore Roosevelt Island Park, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Tuzigoot National Monument,  Valley Forge National Historical Park, Vicksburg National Cemetery, Vicksburg National Cemetery, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Walnut Canyon National Monument, Washington Monument, William Howard Taft National Historic Site, National World War II Memorial, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Wupatki National Monument, Yosemite National Park
 
I think there are 52 here.

[brainpause]

I actually went through and looked at nps.gov and //www.fs.fed.us to count. I was surprised! I almost "blindly" guessed 6 for the poll, but after counting, I saw 24! Wow!

Interesting poll, AB.

Larry