Learn All 63 US National Parks: A Flashcard Study Guide to States, Records and UNESCO Sites
Learn all 63 US national parks with real flashcards: which state each park is in, size and visitor records, UNESCO listings and designation dates.
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Sixty-three parks, fifty-odd states and territories, and a quiz that always asks the same three things: which state, which record, which UNESCO listing. US National Parks on Flip It (deck code JR8207, 63 cards) is built around exactly those angles, so the fastest way through it is to stop reading the list alphabetically and start learning it geographically.
Study this deck: US National Parks
1 / 10How many national parks does the United States have?
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Six cards carry most of the deck's weight, because they are the ones trivia rounds and geography papers reach for first:
- Oldest: Yellowstone, 1872, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant — the first national park in the world.
- Newest: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, 2020.
- Largest: Wrangell–St. Elias, Alaska, over 8 million acres.
- Smallest: Gateway Arch, Missouri, 192.83 acres.
- Most visited: Great Smoky Mountains, every year since 1944, over 12 million visitors in 2024.
- Least visited: Gates of the Arctic, Alaska, roughly 11,900 visitors in 2024.
Add the system totals — more than 94 million park visitors in 2024, the National Park Service created by the Organic Act of 1916, 14 parks listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites and 21 as Biosphere Reserves — and you already hold the deck's most reusable facts.
Nine cards from the deck
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Which state has the most national parks? | California with 9 parks |
| Which state has the second most national parks? | Alaska with 8 parks |
| What is Arches National Park famous for? | Over 2,000 natural stone arches |
| What is Bryce Canyon famous for? | Distinctive geological structures called hoodoos |
| What is Badlands known for? | Fossils and eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires |
| What is Death Valley's lowest point? | Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America |
| What is Denali's main feature? | Mount Denali (formerly McKinley), North America's highest peak at 20,310 feet |
| Which states share Great Smoky Mountains National Park? | North Carolina and Tennessee |
| What international designation does Glacier share? | Waterton Glacier International Peace Park (shared with Canada, UNESCO World Heritage Site) |
The full geography covered
Acadia (Maine), American Samoa, Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef (Utah), Badlands (South Dakota), Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains (Texas), Biscayne, Dry Tortugas and Everglades (Florida), Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Great Sand Dunes (Colorado), Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico), Channel Islands, Joshua Tree, Death Valley and Yosemite (California), Congaree (South Carolina), Crater Lake (Oregon), Cuyahoga Valley (Ohio), Denali, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay and Katmai (Alaska), Glacier (Montana), Grand Canyon (Arizona), Grand Teton (Wyoming), Great Basin (Nevada), Haleakala and Hawaii Volcanoes (Hawaii), Hot Springs (Arkansas), Indiana Dunes, Isle Royale (Michigan) — plus the designation dates: Yosemite 1890, Gateway Arch 2018, Indiana Dunes 2019.
Two ways to make it stick
Cluster by state, not by alphabet. Utah owns four of the deck's parks in a row (Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef); Florida owns three; Alaska and California own seventeen between them. Shuffling within a state group turns twenty separate cards into five map images.
Tag the UNESCO cards as a second pass. Grand Canyon, Everglades, Carlsbad Caverns, Great Smoky Mountains, Hawaii Volcanoes and Glacier all carry the listing — review them together, then cross-check with the UNESCO World Heritage system deck.
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