If someone wanted to visit every national park in America, how many parks would one have to visit?

[Yavin4]

Also, can it be done?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. None, if trump and team get their way.

Elections have consequences.

[underpants]

2. 59

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States

[Yavin4]

4. Only one in the entire Northeast?!?!??

That cannot be right.

[underpants]

6. Okay

You be the one to argue with Wikipedia

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. There are only 59 official National Parks

But there are also national forests, historic trails, monuments, recreation areas, preserves, seashores etc. All are managed by the National Park Service.

https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm

[DFW]

11. It isn't

I was at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts this past summer. National Park Ranger stations everywhere, need a National Park entry pass to get in to some of it. Let Wikipedia argue with THAT.

[steve2470]

13. hey my friend, when are you coming back to the States ? Happy Halloween! nt

[DFW]

14. There's a thing my family and I attend every New Year's in South Caahhhlahna

So usually we head Stateside December 26th.

And as for Halloween, it isn't exactly a tradition here in Central Europe. Just in case, though, I ordered three kilos of these fabulous hard candies with soft fruit filling from Austria for my wife to hand out--I had to be in France today, got back late--if any trick-or-treaters came (a few sometimes do). But they didn't, so I get to raid all the Apricot ones for myself, ha ha!!

Here, there is a November tradition of St. Martin where the children go from house to house and sing some song about a lantern, and you are supposed to offer them candies like we do on Halloween. Ours is a pretty mixed neighborhood, with Greek Orthodox, Turkish Muslims, German Catholics and Protestants, a family from Ghana plus always a few renters from overseas companies sending their employees on internships (anything from French to Japanese) to head offices in our area. We have Austrians and Croatians among our immediate neighbors, and the others are within 2 minutes' walking distance. So, we are ready for anything.

[Lochloosa]

3. 59 and yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States

The United States has 59 protected areas known as national parks that are operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the Department of the Interior. National parks must be established by an act of the United States Congress. A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, followed by Mackinac National Park in 1875 (decommissioned in 1895), and then Rock Creek Park (later merged into National Capital Parks), Sequoia and Yosemite in 1890. The Organic Act of 1916 created the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."[1] Many current national parks had been previously protected as National Monuments by the President under the Antiquities Act before being upgraded by Congress. Seven national parks (including six in Alaska) are paired with a National Preserve, areas with different levels of protection that are administered together but considered separate units and whose areas are not included in the figures below

[CrispyQ]

5. The Great Sand Dunes was one of my favorite visits.

It had rained & the stream of surges was brisk. We had so much fun.

[Sneederbunk]

7. 60 with Mar a lago.

[Cartoonist]

8. None in my home state (Ill)

And none along the Mississippi River.

[Saboburns]

9. All of them

If you wanted to visit every National Park then you would have to go to all of them Every one.

Gee I wonder how many there are.

[DFW]

12. I wish I had the time to see every one of them.

Republicans have come a long way since Teddy Roosevelt. The WRONG way.

[Generic Brad]

15. Alexa says 58

Is she right? Only Amazon knows.

[csziggy]

16. Yes, it can be done - and the Park Service will stamp your park "passport"

As you visit each park. I bought a National Park Passport last August when in the Smokey Mountains and got my first stamp there. Maybe I can visit most of the rest before I die!

https://www.eparks.com/store/category/30/278/Passport/

Each region has a link to the passport stamp locations with the route between.

They also have stickers to add to the passport, which is especially fun for kids.